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Born in Italy in 1866
Attilio Piccirilli studied art in Rome at the Academia
San Luca and then came to America in 1888. He opened a
workshop in New York city and was very successful
receiving numerous public commissions such as for:
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Customs House, New
York
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Rockefeller Center,
New York
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Firemen's Memorial
Monument, New York
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Frick Reference
Library, New York
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Maine monument, New
York
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Wisconsin state
capitol building, Madison
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John McDonogh
monument in Lafayette Square, New Orleans
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San Diego Museum of
Art building, San Diego
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California building,
San Diego
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Court of the
Seasons, Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco
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Figure of Lincoln,
from the small original by French, in the Lincoln
Memorial, Washington
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House of the
provincial legislature, Winnipeg, Canada
He died in 1945. |
