POTTER

Élève de Mercié et de Frémiet (1887-1889). Exposa au Salon : petit groupe de lapins, buste d’homme noir, ébauche d’un groupe d’Indien, faune endormi avec un lapin. Il sculpta de nombreuses statues pour des villes d’Amérique. Bien connu pour ses statues équestres et animalières. Son œuvre la plus fameuse est les deux lions en marbre surnommés « Patience » et «  Courage », devant la New York Public Library.

Élu à la National Sculpture Society en 1893, rejoignit la Society of American Artists in 1894. Celle-ci fusionna plus tard avec la National Academy où il fut élu en 1906. Potter reçut une médaille d’or à la Louisiana Purchase Exposition à St. Louis en 1904.

Collaborations avec Daniel Chester ???

World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 (sculptures temporaires, toutes ont été détruites) :

– Grand Court

– Statue of the Republic

– Statue of Industry

– Statue of Plenty

– Statue of The Teamster

– Quadriga (horse-drawn chariot)

– Quadriga outriders

Statues équestres :

– Equestrian statue of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1893-98)

– Equestrian statue of George Washington, Place d’Iéna, Paris, France (1900)

– Equestrian statue of George Washington, Washington Park, Chicago, Illinois (1900-04). This is a replica of the statue in Paris

– Equestrian statue of Major General Joseph Hooker, Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston, Massachusetts (1903)

– Progress of the State Quadriga, Minnesota State Capitol, Cass Gilbert, architect, St. Paul, Minnesota (1905–07)

Autres œuvres :

– World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893). Potter’s Quadriga (horse-drawn chariot) is atop the pavilion behind the Statue of the Republic

– Equestrian Statue of George Washington, Place d’Iéna, Paris, France (1900)

– Dedication of the General Joseph Hooker Statue, Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston, MA (1903)

– Progress of the State Quadriga, Minnesota State Capitol, St. Paul, MN (1905-07)

– Sleeping Faun, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (1887-89)

– Bust of Vice President William A. Wheeler, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC (1890-92)

– Governor Austin Blair, Michigan State Capitol, Lansing, Michigan (1895-98)

– Robert Fulton, Rotunda Reading Room, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (1897). One of 16 bronze statues set around the third-floor balustrade.

– John Paul Jones, Dewey Triumphal Arch, Madison Square, New York City (1899, destroyed)

– Equestrian Statue of Major General Henry W. Slocum, Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1902)

– Equestrian Statue of Major General Charles Devens, Worcester County Courthouse, Worcester, Massachusetts (1905-06)

– Indian Religion (Buddha), Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (1907-09)

– Indian Philosophy (Sankara), Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (1907-09)

– Sighting the Enemy (George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument), Monroe, Michigan (1908-10)

– Equestrian Statue of Major General George B. McClellan, Smith Memorial Arch, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1909-11)

– Lions, New York Public Library, New York City (1910-11)

– Equestrian Statue of Major General Philip Kearny, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia (1912-14)

– The Bugler (Brookline Civil War Monument), Brookline, Massachusetts (1915)

– Equestrian Statue of Major General John A. McClernand, Vicksburg, Mississippi (1919)

– Raynal Bolling Memorial, Greenwich, Connecticut (1922)

– Governor Austin Blair, Michigan State Capitol, Lansing, MI (1895-98)

– George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument, Monroe, MI (1908-10)

– Major General Philip Kearny, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA (1912-14)

– Raynal Bolling Memorial, Greenwich, CT (1922)