Name Allen Newman | Died 1940 | |
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Education National Academy Museum and School | ||
Allen George Newman (August 28, 1875 – February 2, 1940) was an American sculptor.
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Early life
Newman was born in New York, where he studied with John Quincy Adams Ward 1897-1901 and at the National Academy of Design.
Career
His works are chiefly monumental and include The Triumph of Peace (Piedmont Park, Atlanta GA); The Hiker, a Spanish–American War soldier ; monuments to Henry Hudson, (overlooking Spuyten Duyvil, New York), General Sheridan (Scranton PA), Joel Chandler Harris (Atlanta, GA); "Woman of the Southland" and the bronze surmounting the dome of the monument to the Women of the Confederacy (Jacksonville, FL, 1914); the figures Day and Night, Harriman National Bank Building (New York); the statues of General William C. Oates (Montgomery AL) and General Stirling Price (Keytesville MO.); and others.
Newman’s ‘’Hiker’’, called ‘’”The best bronze soldier in America"’’ erected in Tompkinsville Park, Staten Island NY, is one of the United States’ most reproduced statues. Copyrighted by Newman in 1904, for a time the Hiker served as the official monument of the United Spanish War Veterans (USWV), and over twenty replicas were cast by Jno. Williams, Inc., a New York foundry. The pose has been compared to a famous image of 1899 by the noted American Western artist Frederic Remington, who was a war correspondent in Cuba. The "Hiker" was also cast for the market in several reduced sizes. Such reductions normally supported American Beaux-Arts sculptors in between public commissions.
A fountain "Music of the Waters" located on Riverside Drive has not been located.
Though best known for his sculpture on monumental scale, he was known to have done smaller pieces like "Rough Rider", which bears much resemblance to the much larger work "The Hiker".
Death
Newman died on February 2, 1940, in New York City.