Hermon Atkins Macneil

Background

Macneil, Hermon Atkins was born in 1866 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States. Son of J. C. and Mary (Lash) MacN.

Education

Graduate Massachusetts State Normal School, 1886, pupil of Chapu at Julian Academy and 2 years of Falguière at École des Beaux Arts.

Career

Taught 3 years Cornell, 3 years Art Institute, Chicago. Won Roman Rinehart scholarship in sculpture, 1896-1900. Awarded designer’s medal, Chicago Exposition, 1893.

Silver medal, Paris Exposition, 1900. Gold medal, Buffalo Exposition, 1901. Silver medal, Charleston Exposition, 1902.

Commemorative medal, Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 1904; gold medal, Panama Exposition, 1915. Medal of honor, Architectural League of New York, 1917.

Saltus medal, 1923. Did important decorative work at Chicago, Paris, Buffalo, St. Louis and Panama expns. The spandrels on portico of National Pavilion, and exhibited groups, The Sun Vow, and Last Act of the Moqui Snake Dance, at Paris Exposition, 1900. Executed main cascade fountain for St. Louis Exposition, 1904.

Member jury of awards, same. Executed Coming of the White Man, City Park, Portland, Oregon. McKinley Memorial, Columbus, Ohio.

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial, Whitinsville, Massachusetts. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial, Washington Park, Albany, New York. Orville Hitchcock Platt Memorial, State Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut.

General Washington, Washington Arch, New York. Frieze—development of man in America, State Capitol, Jefferson City, Missoury. Groups physical and intellectual development, Northwestern University.

Ezra Cornell Memorial, Cornell University. Flushing (Long Island) War Memorial. Marquette Memorial, Chicago.

The Pilgrim Fathers, Waterbury, Connecticut. Burke Memorial, Seattle, Washington. Eastern pediment Supreme Court of the United States Court, Washington, District of Columbia.

Fort Sumter Memorial, Charleston, South Carolina. Bronze equestrian, “Pony Express,” for St. Joseph, Missouri. Statutes of General Alfred H. Terry and Gideon Wells, Hartford, of George Rogers Clark for Memorial, Vincennes, Indiana.

Busts of Choate, Parkman, Roger Williams, James Monroe in Hall of Fame. Bust of Chancellor Brown of New York University Has works in The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago. Peabody Institute, Baltimore.

Cornell Univercity; Metropolitan Museum of Art. Johns Hopkins University. Etc. Has made something of a specialty of Indian subjects.

N.A., 1906; member National Institute Arts and Letters, American Academy Arts and Letters, Municipal Art Society, National Sculpture Society, Architectural League.

Membership

Member jury of awards, same. Member National Institute Arts and Letters, American Academy Arts and Letters, Municipal Art Society, National Sculpture Society, Architectural League. Clubs: Century. National Arts.

Connections

Married Carol Brooks, December 25, 1895 (died June 1944).; married second, Cecelia W. Muench, February 1946. Children: Claude Lash, Alden Brooks, Joie Katherine (deceased).

Father:

J. C. MacN.

Mother:

Mary (Lash) MacN.

Spouse:

Carol Brooks

Spouse:

Cecelia W. Muench

child:

Claude Lash Macneil

child:

Alden Brooks Macneil

child:

Joie Katherine Macneil (deceased)