# List of American sculptors exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

Sculpture could be found at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in various different places and serving a diverse number of functions. The works displayed in the specially designed sculpture exhibition halls tended to be by the better known artists of the day but the visitors to the Expo did not need to enter the buildings to find sculpture. The grounds, especially around the lagoon areas and decorating the various bridges were liberally sprinkled with sculpture, most of it made out of staff, an impermanent material. Also to be found were a number of fountains. Another form of sculpture at the Fair, also made of staff, was the architectural sculpture that adorned a large number of the buildings.

## Architectural sculpture

   But here it might be well to say something of the material of which they are constructed, the new and wonderful "staff." It has the properties of both common plaster and cement, and can be worked into any required design; in hardening it shows an ivory-like surface, which, however, can be colored in any desired tint. Thus the most ornate architectural effects are produced, and all the buildings, being covered with this decorative substance, present the appearance of veritable palaces. For the designs, etc., it is modeled into plates the required size and joined invisibly, and it is estimated that about 500,000 of these pieces have been used in the large buildings alone.$^{:452–53}$
Sixteen bridges spanned the lagoons that meandered through the fairgrounds. Four statues of native American mammals, also made of staff, decorated the piers at each end of a bridge.$^{:453}$

## The sculptors and their works

| Artist | Works Exhibited | Image | Medium | Year | Current Collection | Notes |
| Herbert Adams | St. Agnes' Eve | | plaster | 1892 | unlocated | |
| Herbert Adams | Primavera | | polychromed marble | 1890-92 | Corcoran Gallery of Art | |
| Herbert Adams | Portrait Bust of a Lady Adeline Valentine | | marble | 1889 | The Hispanic Society of America | |
| Thomas Ball | Portrait of a Lady | | plaster | 1889 | unlocated | |
| Thomas Ball | Paul Revere | | bronze | 1883 | Cincinnati Art Museum | |
| Thomas Ball | Portrait of a Gentleman | | plaster | | unlocated | |
| Thomas Ball | Colossal Statue of George Washington | | bronze | 1889-93 | Forest Lawn Memorial Park | In the Rotunda: |
| Thomas Ball | Christ and the Little Child | | marble | 1881 | Mary Provincial House Methuen, Massachusetts | |
| Paul Wayland Bartlett | Medallion portrait of the Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Skinner | | bronze | 1892 | Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk, Virginia | |
| Paul Wayland Bartlett | Bust of Mrs. B (Emily Montgomery Skinner Bartlett) | | marble | 1892 | unlocated | |
| Paul Wayland Bartlett | Bohemian and Bears | | plaster | 1887 | Art Institute of Chicago | Presumed destroyed |
| Paul Wayland Bartlett | The Bohemian Bear Tamer | | bronze | 1889 | Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| Paul Wayland Bartlett | The Ghost Dance (study of the nude) | | plaster | 1889 | unlocated | |
| Paul Wayland Bartlett | Sundance or Ghost Dance | | bronze | 1889 | National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution | |
| George Edwin Bissell | John Watts, the last Royal Recorder of New York and founder of the Leake and Watts Orphan House | | bronze | 1892 | Trinity Church, New York | |
| Karl Bitter | Administration Building (architectural sculpture): designed by Richard Morris Hunt Growth of Civilization – 28 sculpture groups | | | | | Destroyed in a July 1894 fire |
| Karl Bitter | Liberty | | staff | | | |
| Karl Bitter | Religion | | staff | | | |
| Karl Bitter | Science | | staff | | | |
| Karl Bitter | War | | staff | | | |
| Karl Bitter | Fishermaid and Blacksmith | | staff | | | |
| Karl Bitter | Water Uncontrolled and Water Controlled | | staff | | | Water Controlled (l) and Water Uncontrolled |
| Karl Bitter | Fire Uncontrolled and Fire Controlled | | staff | | | |
| Karl Bitter | Diligence | | staff | | | |
| Karl Bitter | Patriotism | | staff | | | |
| Karl Bitter | Truth | | staff | | | |
| Richard W. Bock | | | | | | |
| Richard W. Bock | Electricity Building (architectural sculpture): Solon Spencer Beman, architect | | staff | | | Sculpture contracted from the Philipson Company |
| Richard W. Bock | Mines and Mining Building (architectural sculpture): Solon Spencer Beman, architect | | staff | | | Sculpture contracted from the Phillipson Company |
| Richard W. Bock | Manufactures Building: Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company pavilion | | | | | |
| Gutzon Borglum | Indian Scouts | | bronze | 1891 | Forest Lawn Memorial Park | |
| John J. Boyle | Tired Out | | bronze | 1887 | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | |
| John J. Boyle | Pennsylvania Building (architectural sculpture): | | | | | |
| John J. Boyle | Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (over main entrance) | | staff | | | |
| John J. Boyle | William Penn and Benjamin Franklin (flanking main entrance) | | staff | | | |
| John J. Boyle | Mines and Mining (atop corner pavilion) | | staff | | | |
| John J. Boyle | Science, Manufactures and Agriculture (atop corner pavilion) | | staff | | | |
| John J. Boyle | Transportation Building (architectural sculpture): Louis Sullivan, architect | | | | | Boyle was awarded a medal for his architectural sculpture on the Transportation Building. |
| John J. Boyle | Apotheosis of Transportation (tympanum over main entrance) | | staff | | | |
| John J. Boyle | Ancient Transportation (bas-relief panel by main entrance) | | staff | | | |
| John J. Boyle | George Stephenson Dennis Papin James Watt The Brakeman Joseph Michael Montgolfier The Pilot Robert Fulton (on balustrades of side porches): | | staff | | | |
| John J. Boyle | The Genius of the Locomotive | | staff | | | |
| Caroline Shawk Brooks | Lady Godiva Returning | | marble | | | Destroyed in San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
| Caroline Shawk Brooks | La Rosa (Vanderbilt Group) | | marble | 1886 | private collection | |
| Caroline Shawk Brooks | Lady Godiva | | marble | | | Destroyed in San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
| Caroline Shawk Brooks | The Dreaming Iolanthe | | marble | | unlocated | |
| Carol Brooks | Enid | | plaster | | unlocated | |
| Henry Kirke Bush-Brown | The Buffalo Hunter | | plaster | 1893 | | |
| Alexander Sterling Calder | Cordelia | | plaster | 1892 | unlocated | |
| Alexander Sterling Calder | Boy with Ribbon | | plaster | | unlocated | |
| Thomas Shields Clarke | The Cider Press | | bronze | 1892 | De Young Museum, San Francisco, California | On the grounds of the De Young Museum: |
| Katherine M. Cohen | Bust of Harry Souther | | plaster | 1890 | unlocated | |
| Ellen Rankin Copp | Relief portrait of Miss Harriet Monroe | | bronze | 1893 | unlocated | |
| Cyrus Edwin Dallin | Signal of Peace | | bronze | 1890 | Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois | |
| Cyrus Edwin Dallin | Portrait bust of Dr. I. | | marble | ca. 1892 | unlocated | |
| John Talbott Donoghue | The Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus of Victory after the Battle of Salamis | | bronze | 1885 | Honolulu Museum of Art | |
| John Talbott Donoghue | Kypros | | plaster | ca. 1890 | unlocated | |
| John Talbott Donoghue | Hunting Nymph | | plaster | 1886 | unlocated | |
| Frank Edwin Elwell | Charles Dickens and Little Nell | | bronze | 1890 | Clark Park, 43rd Street & Chester Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Installed in Clark Park, Philadelphia: |
| Frank Edwin Elwell | Intellect Dominating Brute Force or Diana and the Lion | (foreground, left) | marble | ca. 1893 | Fabyan Villa, Geneva, New York | |
| Jacob Fjelde | Bas-relief of Bert Harwood | | plaster | | unlocated | |
| Jacob Fjelde | Bust of Judge Nelson | | bronze | 1890 | U.S. District Court, St. Paul, Minnesota | |
| Daniel Chester French | Bust of A. Bronson Alcott | | plaster | 1889 | National Trust for Historic Preservation Stockbridge, Massachusetts | |
| Daniel Chester French | Martin Milmore Memorial | | bronze | 1892 | Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts | |
| Daniel Chester French | Angel of Death and the Sculptor | | plaster | 1891 | Art Institute of Chicago | Destroyed 1949 |
| Daniel Chester French | The Republic | | | | 1893 and 1918 | A one third sized version of the 65 foot tall statue was placed in Jackson Park, Chicago in 1918: |
| French and Potter (French created the human figures and Potter the animals.) | Columbian Quadriga | | staff | c. 1892–1893 | | A modified version of this was formed of copper in 1906 as The Progress of the State at the Minnesota State Capitol. |
| French and Potter (French created the human figures and Potter the animals.) | The Cart Horse Group | | staff | 1892-93 | destroyed | |
| French and Potter (French created the human figures and Potter the animals.) | Teamster and Horse | | staff | c. 1892–1893 | destroyed | A rare use of an African-American model |
| French and Potter (French created the human figures and Potter the animals.) | Statues of Plenty orBulls with Maidens or Ceres, grain and the Old World | | staff | c. 1892–1893 | | A bronze version was erected in Humboldt Park, Chicago in 1912. |
| French and Potter (French created the human figures and Potter the animals.) | Statues of Plenty or Bulls with Maidens or Native American Corn Goddess | | staff | c. 1892–1893 | | A bronze version was erected in Humboldt Park, Chicago in 1912. |
| Johannes Gelert | The Little Architect | | plaster | ca. 1882 | unlocated | |
| Johannes Gelert | The Struggle for Work | | plaster | 1892 | | |
| Johannes Gelert | Theseus, Victor over the Minotaur | | bronze | 1886 | private collection | |
| Johannes Gelert | Bust of Abraham Lincoln | | plaster | ca. 1892 | a bronze version is in a private collection | |
| Charles Grafly | A Bad Omen | | plaster | | unlocated | |
| Charles Grafly | Mauvais Présage | | plaster | 1891 | Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art Wichita State University | study |
| Charles Grafly | Daedalus | | bronze | 1889 | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | |
| Charles Grafly | Pennsylvania Building: The Genius of Art | | plaster | 1893 | | |
| Jonathan Scott Hartley | Pan | | bronze | 1885 | | |
| Jonathan Scott Hartley | Bust of William Conant | | bronze | 1890 | private collection | |
| Jonathan Scott Hartley | John Gilbert as Sir Peter Teazle | | bronze | 1889 | The Hampden-Booth Theatre Library Players Club, New York | |
| Harriet R. Hyatt | Head of Laughing Girl | | plaster | | unlocated | |
| Edward Kemeys | American Black Bear | | bronze | 1886 | Art Institute of Chicago | |
| Edward Kemeys | Battle of the Bulls | | bronze | 1890 | unlocated | |
| Edward Kemeys | American Panther and her Cubs | | plaster | 1878 | National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution | |
| Edward Kemeys | At Bay (Female Panther) | | | | | |
| Edward Kemeys | A Prairie King | | | | | |
| Edward Kemeys | Old Ephriam (Grizzly Bear) | | bronze | 1885 | private collection | |
| Edward Kemeys | Fighting Panther and Deer | | bronze | | private collection | |
| Edward Kemeys | After the Feast | | bronze | 1878 | private collection | |
| Edward Kemeys | Texan Bull and Jaguars | | bronze | 1891 | National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution | |
| Edward Kemeys | Jaguar and Boa-constrictor | | bronze | 1877 | private collection | |
| Edward Kemeys | American Bay Lynx | | bronze | | unlocated | |
| Edward Kemeys | Grappling His Game | | plaster | before 1885 | private collection | |
| Edward Kemeys | The Still Hunt | | bronze | | private collection | |
| Mary Lawrence | Christopher Columbus | | staff | 1892 | | |
| Edmonia Lewis | Woman's Building: Bust of Hiawatha | | marble | 1868 | Metropolitan Museum of Art | One of the few African-American artists who exhibited at the Exposition. |
| Edmonia Lewis | Woman's Building: Statuettes | | | | | |
| Aloys Loeher | Bust of Jessie Bartlett Davis | | marble | | unlocated | |
| Frederick MacMonnies | Columbian Fountain aka The Barge of State aka Columbia, Enthroned, is Propelled by the Arts and Sciences and Steered by Father Time. | | staff | 1892 | | |
| Philip Martiny | Portrait bust of a child (Blanche Martiny) | | plaster | | unlocated | |
| Philip Martiny | Palace of Fine Arts (frieze figures): Architecture Painting Music Sculpture 2 winged caryatides | | staff limestone (1920s) | | | Limestone replicas of the frieze figures were carved in the 1920s, when the building became the Museum of Science and Industry. |
| Philip Martiny | Agricultural Building (architectural sculpture) McKim Mead & White, architects | | | | | Destroyed in a July 1894 fire |
| Philip Martiny | Ceres groups (flanking the north and south porticoes) | | staff | | | |
| Philip Martiny | Cattle and Horses groups (north and south facades) | | staff | | | |
| Philip Martiny | The Four Hemispheres groups (atop the 4 corner pavilions) | | staff | | | Corner pavilion (left): |
| Philip Martiny | The Four Seasons groups (north and south facades, at the corners) | | staff | | | |
| Philip Martiny | Signs of the Zodiac (13 cornice figures, east and west facades) | | staff | | | Each figure held a plaque with a Zodiac sign: |
| Retta T. Matthews | Indiana | | marble | 1893 | Indiana State Capitol, Indianapolis | Commissioned for the Indiana State Building |
| Larkin Goldsmith Mead | | | | | | |
| Larkin Goldsmith Mead | Agricultural Building (architectural sculpture): The Triumph of Ceres (pedimental group on north façade) | | staff | | | Agricultural Building north entrance: Destroyed in a July 1894 fire |
| Larkin Goldsmith Mead | The Return of Proserpine from the Realms of Pluto (pedimental group on south façade) | | staff | | | Destroyed in a July 1894 fire |
| Samuel Murray | Portrait bust of Walt Whitman | | bronze | 1892 | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution | |
| Samuel Murray | Study of a child's head (William Brown) | | bronze | 1892 | unlocated | |
| Samuel Murray | Study of a child's head (William Brown) | | plaster | 1892 | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution | |
| Blanche Nevin | Woman's Building (Gallery of Honor): Maud Muller | | marble | c.1876 | Iris Club, Lancaster, Pennsylvania | |
| Charles Henry Niehaus | Historical Door of Trinity Church | | plaster | | | bronze versions at north door, Trinity Church, New York |
| Charles Henry Niehaus | Athlete (Caestus) | | plaster | 1883-85 | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Cast in bronze, 1901 |
| William Rudolf O'Donovan | Portrait bust of Thomas Eakins | | bronze | | unlocated | |
| William Rudolf O'Donovan | Portrait bust of Robert Swain Gifford | | bronze | | unlocated | |
| Richard Henry Park | Mines and Mining Building (Montana pavilion): Justice | | Silver | | | The work was cast out of pure silver. The model for the figure was Ada Rehan. |
| William Ordway Partridge | William Shakespeare | | plaster | | | Bronze version in Lincoln Park, Chicago: |
| William Ordway Partridge | A Dream (Midsummer Night's Dream) | | marble | | | |
| William Ordway Partridge | Madonna (Madonna in Her Maturity) | | plaster | | Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio | |
| Bela Pratt | Genius of Navigation | | staff | c. 1892–1893 | | Two copies of this work were made, placed at the front and back of the Peristyle. They were destroyed by the 1894 fire. |
| Bela Pratt | Genius of Discovery | | staff | c. 1892–1893 | | Two copies of this work were made, placed at the front and back of the Peristyle |
| Vinnie Ream (Lavinia Ellen Ream Hoxie) | Woman's Building (Rotunda): The West aka The Virgin West | | marble | | Wisconsin State Capitol Madison, Wisconsin | also displayed at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876 |
| Vinnie Ream (Lavinia Ellen Ream Hoxie) | Woman's Building (Rotunda): America | | marble | 1870 | State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines | |
| Vinnie Ream (Lavinia Ellen Ream Hoxie) | Woman's Building (Rotunda): Miriam | | marble | | Private collection | |
| David Richards | Near Woman's Building: Hide and Seek | | | 1893 | | |
| Alice M. Rideout | Woman's Building (architectural sculpture): Pediment | | staff | | | The pediment was 7 ft tall and 45 ft long |
| Alice M. Rideout | Winged figures: Woman's Virtues Woman as the Spirit of Civilization Woman's Place in History | | | | | |
| Alice M. Rideout | Seated figures | | | | | |
| Carl Rohl-Smith | Mato Wanartaka (Kicking Bear), Chief of the Sioux | | plaster | | | |
| Carl Rohl-Smith | Portrait bust of Henry Watterson | | bronze | | | |
| Carl Rohl-Smith | Electricity Building (main entrance): The Pioneer of Electric Science— Benjamin Franklin and His Kite | | staff | 1892-93 | | The Electricity Building at Night by Charles Graham: Presumed lost in a July 1894 fire |
| Augustus Saint-Gaudens | Diana finial of McKim, Mead and White's Agriculture Building | | copper | 1892-93 | | original destroyed, various smaller versions are listed in Diana |
| Anne Whitney | Roma | | plaster | 1893 | | bronze cast version (1890) in Davis Museum at Wellesley College |
| Anne Whitney | Woman's Building: Leif Ericson | | bronzed plaster | 1889 | National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. | The original bronze (1885–87) is in Boston, Massachusetts. A bronze replica (1887) is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| Anne Whitney | Woman's Building: Bust of Lucy Stone | | marble | 1893 | Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts | |
| Anne Whitney | Woman's Building (Library): Bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe | | marble | 1892 | Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, Connecticut | Beside the bust (at far left in the photo) was a cabinet containing copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 42 languages. |