page_title: Pietro Montana
section_title: Honors
hierarchical_section_title: Pietro Montana / Biography / Honors
caption_attribution_description: Highland Park, Brooklyn. The inscription on the pedestal reads, "IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY 1917-1918."
context_page_description: Pietro Montana was a 20th-century Italian-American sculptor, painter and teacher, noted for his war memorials and religious works.
context_section_description: He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — 1919, 1920, 1924, 1930–1936, 1943–1948; the National Academy of Design — 1918, 1919, 1921, 1931 (Gold Medal for Orphans); the Allied Artists of America — 1932–1949 (Gold Medals 1942 & 1949); and elsewhere.
  He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1968, and an academician in 1970. He was also a member of the National Sculpture Society and the Allied Artists of America.
  He received the Daniel Chester French Medal for Religious Sculpture, the Allied Artists of America Award, the Medal of Honor of the Catholic Fine Arts Society and the award of the National Academy of Design.
caption: The Dawn of Glory (1924), Highland Park War Memorial, Brooklyn, New York.
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