Background
Block, Adolph was born on January 29, 1906 in New York City. Son of Henry and Dora (Wolpin) Block.
Block, Adolph was born on January 29, 1906 in New York City. Son of Henry and Dora (Wolpin) Block.
Student Beaux Arts Institute Design, Fontainebleau School Fine Arts.
March 1972). Sculptor, works exhibited National Academy of Design, Architectural League New York, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Whitney Museum, Jewish Museum, French and Argent Galleries, Salamagundi Club, Lever House. Works installed at Bayonne (New Jersey) Public Library, William Cullen Bryant High School, Morris High School, Queens Vocational High School, Beth-El Hospital (all New York City), Garfield Restaurant, Brooklyn, Saxony Restaurant, Newark, Concord Restaurant, Jamaica, Long Island. Designer Spencer, Grady medals American Chemical Society, Karl Taylor Compton medal American Institute of Physics, Long Lincolnshire Medal of America Telephone
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Company, Allen medal American Society Human Genetics, 63d medal Society Medallists, bronze portrait medallions Tobacco Industry Hall Fame, bronze portrait plaque Doctor Franz J. Kallman, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City, 1967, Washington Irving medal New York University Hall Fame Series, 1968, others Designed eight 9-foot figure panels National Shrine Immaculate Conception, Washington. Has done bronze busts of Spinoza, Simon Barer and others
Designed Nathan Hale Coin medal for National Commemorative Society, 1969, Simon Newcomb medal for New York University Hall of Fame series, 1970, Delaware Fine Arts Federation New York, 1954-1964, director, chairman sculpture, 1955-1956.
Member of faculty National Academy School Fine-Arts, 1959-1973. Tiffany Foundation fellow, 1926.
Fontainebleau fellow, 1927. Beaux-Arts Architects Silver medal, 1926, Beaux Arts Institute Paris prize, 1927, 1st award for sculpture at annual exhibitions
Fontainebleau Alumni Association, 1932, 34, 38, honorable mention for sculpture National Gold Medal Exhibitions, Architectural League New York, 1955-1956, Lindsay Morris prize, bas reliefs, Allied Artists American, 1956, Gold Medal of Honor, 1958, 1st Lindsay Morris prize for bas relief sculpture, 1969.
Lindsay Morris prize for medals, National Sculpture Society, 1958, Herbert Adams Memorial medal and citation, 1961. 1st Mistress John Newington prize Hudson Valley Art Association, 1960, gold medal of honor for sculpture, 1961. Henry Hering Memorial medal and citation, 1961.
Harriet Mayor Memorial award for sculpture American Artists Professional League, 1961.
Gold Plate award Academy Achievement, 1961. Silver medal National Sculpture Society Annual Exhibition, 1967, cash award for most notable service, 1970.
Cash award for portrait bust National Arts Club, 1969. First vice president Altruists chapter City of Hope, 1954-1956.
Member of faculty National Academy School Fine-Arts, 1959-1973. Tiffany Foundation fellow, 1926. Fellow National Sculpture Society (recording secretary 1953-1956, secretary 1956-1959, chairman.
Membership committee, 1956-1963, 1st vice president 1959-1962, president 1963-1965).
Member Allied Artists American (vice president 1958-1961, chairman jury of selection 1958, director Board of Governors, vice president, president 1964-1965, Lindsay Morris Memorial prize for bas-relief 1963, Therese Richard Memorial prize for religious sculpture 1964), International Association Plastic Arts (Second vice president United States committee 1960-1962), Fine Arts Federation New York (director 1954-1963, 70-78, chairman sculpture), Architectural League New York, Fontainebleau Alumni Association.
Married Tilda M. Frishman, June 29, 1930 (deceased.