Background
Bartlett, Paul Wayland was born in 1865 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Truman Howe and Mary Ann (White) Bartlett.
Bartlett, Paul Wayland was born in 1865 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Truman Howe and Mary Ann (White) Bartlett.
Educational public schools, New Haven and Boston. Began sculpture while a boy, under the instruction of Fremiet. Exhibited in Salon at age of 14 (a bust of his grandmother), and 1880 entered École des Beaux Arts, where he was a pupil of Cavelier.
In 1887 received recompense at Salon for the group, The Bear Tamer (now in Metropolitan Museum of New York).
Was hors concours, Paris Exposition, 1889, and member International Jury of Awards. Also hors concours and represented United States on International Jury of Awards for Sculpture, Paris Exposition, 1900.
Chevalier Legion of Honor of France, 1895, officer, 1908. Principal works: Statue of General Joseph Warren, Boston.
Equestrian statue of Lafayette in the Square of the Louvre, Paris (gift to France from the school children of the United States).
Statues of Columbus and Michelangelo, in Congressional Library, Washington. A door for tomb of Senator West. A. Clark, in Woodlawn Cemetery. Latest works, six statues on the front of the New York Public Library.
Pediment over House wing of the Capitol, Washington, District of Columbia.
Statue of Benjamin Franklin. Statue of Patriotism, Duluth.
Minnesota Represented in Boston Museum, Philadelphia Academy Design, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Luxembourg Gallery. Paris, and Museum of Decorative Art, Paris.
Member American Academy Arts and Letters. Member Institute of France. Member Royal Academy, Belgium.