Background
Waugh was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. His father, Frank Waugh, was a landscape architect and professor of horticulture and landscape gardening at Massachusetts State College.
Waugh was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. His father, Frank Waugh, was a landscape architect and professor of horticulture and landscape gardening at Massachusetts State College.
Student Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1920-1923, Scuola delle Belle Arte, Rome, 1924. Pupil Henri Bouchard, Paris, 1925-1928. Student American Academy in Rome.
1929-1932.
Honorary Master of Arts, Amherst College, 1939. A.F.D., University of Massachusetts, 1950.
Principal works: group for National Archives Building, pediment group for United States Physician organization Department Building, figure for United State Attorneys general conference room, group for Federal Reserve Board Building, Lamar Monument (Richmond, Texas), sculptures for Buhl Planetarium (Pittsburgh). President Truman’s gifts to Princess Elizabeth and Queen Wilhelmina. Pulaski Monument, Philadelphia.
4 statues, District Court of Appeals, Washington.
Mellon Memorial Fountain, Washington. Presentation Medal to President Gonzales Videla of Chile.
Group for Mead Art Building, Amherst College. 9 sculptures for Bethlehem Steel Company.
2 groups for Bank of Manhattan.
Represented in Metropolitan Museum, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts, Toledo Museum, John Herron Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Collections of the King of Italy, Shah of Iran, King of Egypt, Queen of Netherlands.
Served as captain. United States Army Air Forces. World World War World World War II Awards: Bronze Star. Silver Star: 2 Croix de Guerre (French).
Member advising committee Architectural School of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Fellow American, Numismatic Society, American Academy in Rome (trustee), American Geography Society. Member National Institute of Arts and Letters (1941), National Sculpture Society (president
Member of council), National Academy (1st vice president), Municipal Art Society, Shakespeare Association of America, Kappa Sigma. Alumni Association of America Academy in Rome (vice president).
Clubs: Coffee House, Century Association (New York City).
Director Rinehart School of Sculpture. Baltimore.
Married Elizabeth Lake, 1946.