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Harry Stinson
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In 1920 he attended the University of Iowa, Iowa City and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921. He studied art at the Cummings School of Art, Des Moines, Iowa, and then at the National Academy of Design, and Art Students League of New York between 1926-1928.
Career
In 1918 he enlisted in the United States Army and was discharged in 1919. He traveled throughout Europe to study art in 1930 and then returned to the University of Iowa, where he was the first in the nation to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1940. A model of the statue of Chief Blackhawk was exhibited in a place of honor in the Iowa Building at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition.
While in Iowa he worked with artists Grant Wood and Jean Charlot.
He joined the faculty the Art Department at Hunter College of the City of New New York He joined the Clay Club in Greenwich Village to have a place to create his own works and the Clay Club later became the Sculpture Center on 69th Street in New York City. His sculptures evolved from wood and clay, to stone, to welded steel.
He has exhibited in such venues at the National Academy of Design and American Watercolor Society in New York City, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Membership
In 1923, he was a resident painter member of The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation at Oyster Bay, Long Island, New New York
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United States