Background
Saville, Bruce Wilder was born on March 16, 1893 in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Gurney and Caroline Elizabeth (Clark) Saville.
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Bruce Wilder Saville
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Education
Educational public schools, Quincy. Boston Normal Art School. Studied with Theo. A. Ruggles Kitson 3 years.
Career
He later worked in the studio of Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson and Henry Hudson Kitson. During World War I Saville joined the French Ambulance Corps for a year and then transferred to the United States. Army Corps of Engineers for the remainder of the war. Following the end of the war he remained in Europe where he, "studied under European masters."
After working there for four years in the Kitson"s studio Saville moved to Columbus, Ohio where he headed the Department of Sculpture at Ohio State University, and at the Columbus Art School
In the 1930s he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where he resided and worked until his death there in 1938.
He is the author of several World War I memorials as well as two Civil War memorials to Jonathan Richmond and Stephen G. Hicks, both located at Vicksburg National Military Park in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Achievements
Membership
Saville was a member of the National Sculpture Society.
Connections
Married Beulah Margretta Kelley, children—William, Sally Wilder, Darrett Bruce.
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February 27, 1938 (aged 45)
Awards
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Awarded first prize for sculpture, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, 1924. Head of department of sculpture, Ohio State University, 1921-1925. Also modeling class, Columbus Art School until 1925.Awarded first prize for sculpture, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, 1924. Head of department of sculpture, Ohio State University, 1921-1925. Also modeling class, Columbus Art School until 1925.