Bela Lyon Pratt (1867-1917) - Web Portrait

• Students of Bela Lyon Pratt: 
  
  
  • Lawrence Tenney Stevens, another student: http://www.southernpride.com/1998/april/sculpture/stevens.htm
    
    
  • University of Buffalo Casting Institute:  Rumsey was a student of BLP - http://www.buffalo.edu/scripts/newnews/ubcastingi.html.  Contact Tony Patterson, Director of the Institute through Patricia Donovan, pdonovan@buffalo.edu ,Phone: 716-645-2626, Fax: 716-645-3765
    
    
  • Richard Henry Recchia, Another Student: http://southernpride.com/1998/april/sculpture/recchia.htm
    
    
• Statues by Bela Lyon Pratt: 
  
  
  • CIA Building: http://198.81.129.99/cia/publications/facttell/building.htm
    
    
  • Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/walls/jeff2.html
    
    
  • Boston Public Library: http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/demoarea/details/HU0043.html and http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/demoarea/details/HU0042.html
    
    
  • Steve Leavitt has collected some photos of Pratts works http://www1.union.edu/~leavitts/pratt3.htm at http://www1.union.edu/~leavitts/index.htm  Is he related?
    
    
  • Nathan Hale Statue: http://www.sots.state.ct.us/EducationPrograms/youthworld/SitesSeals/sthero.html
    
    
  • National Gallery of Art: http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=A&Person=551644
    
    
  • Bell Rock Park http://www.ci.malden.ma.us/visitor/landmarks/l-003.html  "The Flag Defenders" monument by Bela Pratt in tribute to soldiers and sailors of the Civil War.
    
    
  • Statue: "A Dead Whale or a Stove Boat": http://204.27.188.70/daily/02-99/02-02-99/b01lo041.htm
    
    
• Correspondence and Clipping Files:
  
  
  • Library of Congress holdings on BLP: (no new info) http://lcweb2.loc.gov
    
    
  • Correspondence, Larado Taft: http://128.174.36.155/projects/Taft/
    
    
  • Correspondence, Charles Grafly: http://www.twsu.edu/library/specialcollections/90-2-b.html
    
    
  • Clipping file at State Library of Massachusetts, Burrill file: http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/lib/SC/burril1.htm  For additional information about the Burrill File, please call the Special Collections Department at (617) 727-2595.
    
    
• Genealogy Links: 
  
  
  • Genealogy Link at http://members.aol.com/vghillard4/farrow/d25320.htm.  Site created by http://members.aol.com/vghillard4/farrow/farrow.htm   Victor can be contacted: Send E-mail to VicHillard@aol.com , Send mail to: Victor Grant Hillard, Jr. , 8 Berkshire Road, N. Chelmsford, MA 01863-2113, 978-251-8627
    
    
    • George Pratt was born on 12 OCT 1832 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., MA. He was married to Sarah Whittlesey (daughter of Oramel Whittlesey and Charlotte Maconda) on 31 JUL 1858. George Pratt and Sarah Whittlesey had the following children:
      • 2285 i. Alice Maconda Pratt was born on 29 SEP 1860.
      • 2286 ii.Oramel Whittlesey Pratt was born on 8 AUG 1862. He was of Salem, CT.
      • 2287 iii.Gertrude Pratt was born on 11 DEC 1864. She was of Salem, CT.
      • 2288 iv.Bela Lyon Pratt was born on 11 DEC 1867. He was of Salem, CT.
      • 2289 v. Susie Warren Pratt was born in 1869. She died in 1872.
      • 2290 vi. Minot Tully Pratt was born on 21 NOV 1872. He was of Salem, CT.
        
        
  • More Genealogy Information at http://genweb.net/~blackwell/ma/weymouth/weygenprs.txt compiled by http://genweb.net/~blackwell/
    
    
• "Encyclopedia" Entries:
  
  
  • You might get some information from http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/pratt_bela_lyon.html and http://www.si.umich.edu there is a note :Please send questions about art objects (from the University of Michigan Museum of Art only) to: Lori Mott, Associate Registrar
    
    
  • Poor bio at http://www.optonline.com/comptons/ceo/29740_Q.html 
    
    
  • Pratt, Bela Lyon (1867-1917), U.S. sculptor, pupil of Saint-Gaudens and Chapu; statues of John Winthrop, Phillips Brooks, Nathan Hale (Yale campus); figures for main entrance of Library of Congress.
    
    
  • Listed among "Cornish Colony Sculptors" at http://www.sgnhs.org/sculptor.html at St-Gaudens site http://www.sgnhs.org/
    
    
• Bibliography and Sculpture Inventories:
  
  
• Closest thing to a bio: http://www.askart.com/TheArtist.asp?ID=10319  with bibliography (table info copied here without permission)

Year	Author	Title	SubTitle	# Pages	# Illus.	Color
1990	Fink, Lois Marie	American Art at... Paris Salons	Nineteenth Century	430	198	Yes
1990	National Academy of Design	Annual Exhibition Record	1901-1950	622	0	No
1989	Falk, Peter Hastings	Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts	612	60	No
1986	Opitz, Glen B (editor)	Mantle Fielding's Dictionary	American Painters, Sculptors et al	1081	0	No
1985	Falk, Peter Hastings	Who Was Who in American Art	Artists Active 1898-1947	707	27	No
1984	Craven, Wayne	Sculpture in America	(new and revised edition)	782	317	No
1979	Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel	Arts in America/A Bibliography	Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)	730	0	No
1976	Armstrong, Tom	200 Years of American Sculpture		336	558	Yes
1972	Fogg Art Museum, Harvard	American Art at Harvard		188	176	No
1972	Earle, Helen L	Biographical Sketches	of American Artists	370	0	No
1955	Hayes, Bartlett H Jr	The Naked Truth and Personal Vision	The Length of the Artistic Road	112	100	Yes
1954	Clark, Eliot	History of the National Academy	of Design 1825-1953	296	1	No
1948	Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge	Index of Artists	International Biographical (2 Vols)	811	0	No
1904	Universal Exposition, St Louis	Saint Louis, Louisiana Purchase	Exposition, 1904, Catalogue	281	0	No




• Listing of Statues at SIRIS: (click on Art Inventories, then search for "Pratt, Bela") Artist Browse = _auth# = 3865;2;2;Pratt Bela Lyon 1867 1917 sculptor (other works listed besides these, sorry I cannot provide a link to the long records.)
  
  

Title	Owner	Call Number
Nathan Hale, (sculpture).	Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut	75001994
John Winthrop Statue, (sculpture).	City of New London, New London, Connecticut	75002003
Nathan Hale, (sculpture).	Raymond E. Baldwin Museum of Connecticut History, Hartford, Connecticut	75001638
Andersonville Boy, (sculpture).	State of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut	75001664
Connecticut Monument, (sculpture).	United States Department of the Interior, Washington, District of Columbia	75001665
Collis Potter Huntington, (sculpture).	Hispanic Society of America, New York, New York	76003258
Alexander Hamilton, (sculpture).	Chicago Park District, Chicago, Illinois	75004296
Lincoln Centennial Medal, (sculpture).	J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky	75005314
Art and Science, (sculpture).	City of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts	77000084
Science, (sculpture).	City of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts	77000085
Sylvester Baxter, (sculpture).	Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts	77000086
Blind Cupid, (sculpture).	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts	77000192
Water-Lily Girl, (sculpture).	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts	77000193
Relief of Harriet Lawrence, (sculpture).	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts	77000195
Art and Science, (sculpture).	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts	77000196
Charles V. Eliot, (sculpture).	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts	77000197
Phillips Brooks, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000380
Alexander Agassiz, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000381
John Ware, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000383
Henry Lee, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000387
John Bernard Swett Jackson, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000388
John Elbridge Hudson, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000390
Jacob Bigelow, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000392
Charles Montraville Green, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000394
John Homans, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000396
The Bather, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000397
Bronze Eagle, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000398
Bas-relief of Theobald Smith, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000526
Bust of George Cheyne Shattuck, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	77000527
Winged Victory, (sculpture).	United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland	75005865
USS Kearsarge Turret Ornament, (sculpture).	United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland	75005870
USS Alabama Turret Ornament, (sculpture).	United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland	75005872
Figure of Hope, (sculpture).	United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland	75005877
The Whaleman Statue, (sculpture).	City of New Bedford, New Bedford, Massachusetts	77000659
Charles Edward Forbes, (sculpture).	Forbes Library, Northampton, Massachusetts	77000678
Lincoln, (sculpture).	Lincoln Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts	76007521
John Codman Ropes, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	76007522
Henry Augustus Coit, (sculpture).	St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire	76007523
Drama, Music, Dance, (sculpture).	Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts	76007524
Nathaniel Hawthorne, (sculpture).	City of Salem, Salem, Massachusetts	76007525
Literature, Science, Art, (sculpture).	Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia	76007527
Brooks, Phillips, (sculpture).	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts	76007528
Memorial to Soldiers Who Died in Southern Prisons in the Civil War, (sculpture).	Located Hartford, Connecticut	76007529
Soldier's and Sailor's Monument, (sculpture).	City of Malden, Malden, Massachusetts	76007530
Edward Everett Hale, (sculpture).	City of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts	76007531
General T. G. Stephenson, (sculpture).	Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts	76007532
St. Christopher, (sculpture).	Unlocated.	76007533
Army Nurses Memorial, (sculpture).	Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts	76007534
Peace and War Butler Memorial, (sculpture).	Administered by Pearson, John Howard, Jr., Lowell, Massachusetts	76007535
Sears Memorial, (sculpture).	Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts	76007536
My Mother at 82, (sculpture).	Unlocated.	76007537
Schoolboy Statue, (sculpture).	Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts	76007539
Philosophy, (sculpture).	Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia	76007540
Study of A Young Girl, (sculpture).	Unlocated.	76007542
Spanish-American War Memorial, (sculpture).	St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire	76007543
Statuette of A Young Girl, (sculpture).	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts	76007544
Relief of Sculpture, (sculpture).	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts	76007545
Statuette of Young Girl, (sculpture).	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts	76007546
Fountain of Youth, (sculpture).	Unlocated.	76007548
Nathan Hale, (sculpture).	Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut	76009918
Captain Nathan Hale, (sculpture).	United States General Services Administration, Washington, District of Columbia	76009919
Clara/Lizzie, Daughters of Frederick and Elizabeth Shattuck, (sculpture).	Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York	76009920
Mother and Child, (sculpture).	Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts	76009921
Water Lily Girl, (sculpture).	Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington	76009922
Collis P. Huntington, (sculpture).	Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia	54890001
Nathan Hale, (sculpture).	Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut	07260182
Nathan Hale, (sculpture).	Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut	07260183
Nathan Hale, (sculpture).	Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut	07260184
Nathan Hale, (sculpture).	Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois	87580023
Thomas Greeley Stevenson, (sculpture).	Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts	20550048
Phillips Brooks, (sculpture).	Old North Andover Common, North Andover, Massachusetts	87740243
Nathan Hale, (sculpture).	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts	20490017
Victory, (sculpture).	Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts	20550051
William, Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, (sculpture).	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts	20780093

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