Harry Weber (sculptor)

Harry Weber (sculptor)
Harry Weber (born 1942 St. Louis, Missouri) is an American sculptor.
Early life
Harry Weber was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1942 where he attended St. Louis Country Day School. He was educated at Princeton University where he studied art history.
Following his education, Weber served six years in the United States Navy. This included a year on river patrol boats in Vietnam where he compiled a compelling series of drawings chronicling his experiences there.During his service, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with V for valor, the Presidential Unit Commendation and the Navy and Marine Corps Combat Ribbon.
Recognition
Weber's sculptures have won major awards at national juried competitions, and are in private collections in the United States and abroad. His work has appeared on the covers of several national magazines.
The Weber body of work includes over 150 large commissioned sculptures on public view in twenty states, the Caribbean, China and Africa. These include historical figures, notables in the arts, politics and sports in twenty-six different cities across the country.
His sculptures have been featured at the Museum of Fine Art in Newport, Rhode Island and are in the permanent collections of the National Dog Museum and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. A selection of his Vietnam war sketches are being shown in behalf of the Wounded Warrior Project in Mobile, Alabama.
Two of his sculptural groups have been designated National Lewis and Clark sites by the Federal Parks Department. This includes a twice life sized grouping of Lewis and Clark on the St. Louis Riverfront which commemorated the final celebration of the bicentennial of the expedition. He was selected in 2010, in a national competition, to sculpt a statue of Dred Scott and Harriet Scott, which was unveiled on June 8, 2012, at the Old Courthouse (St. Louis, Missouri) where the initial court cases were heard.
His sculptures of famous sports figures are prominent features at fifteen different professional and amateur stadiums, including Busch Stadium in St. Louis, MO, the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, and Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2011 he was named the Sports Sculptor of the Year by the United States Sports Academy. He was inducted into the St Louis Sports Hall of Fame in 2019 and was given a Star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 2023.
References
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External links
Harry Weber
1942 births
Living people
Princeton University alumni
United States Navy personnel of the Vietnam War
Artists from St. Louis
20th-century American sculptors
20th-century American male artists
American male sculptors
Sculptors from Missouri
United States Navy sailors
Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School alumni