Preston Powers
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Preston Powers American sculptor, painter and teacher, born in
Florence, Italy
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Powers studied with his father, Hiram Powers
, a well known Neo-classical
sculptor and expatriate who lived in Italy. After returning to the United States
, the younger Powers worked as an artist in Boston Massachusetts, Washington D.C. and Portland Maine.
He is best remembered for his portraits. His students include Alice Cooper
and Elsie Ward
.
Florence, Italy
Italy
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Powers studied with his father, Hiram Powers
Hiram Powers
Hiram Powers was an American neoclassical sculptor.-Biography:The son of a farmer, Powers was born in Woodstock, Vermont, on the July 29, 1805. In 1818 his father moved to Ohio, about six miles from Cincinnati, where the son attended school for about a year, staying meanwhile with his brother, a...
, a well known Neo-classical
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome...
sculptor and expatriate who lived in Italy. After returning to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, the younger Powers worked as an artist in Boston Massachusetts, Washington D.C. and Portland Maine.
He is best remembered for his portraits. His students include Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (sculptor)
Alice Cooper was an American sculptor.Born in Glenwood, Iowa, and based in Denver, Colorado, Cooper studied under Preston Powers then at the Art Institute of Chicago with Lorado Taft and the Art Students League of New York through about 1901.Cooper is best known for her bronze figure of Sacajawea...
and Elsie Ward
Elsie Ward
Elsie Ward American sculptor born in Fayette, Missouri.Ward began her art studies in Denver, Colorado, studying with Preston Powers. After moving to New York she attended the Art Students League where she studied with Daniel Chester French, H. Siddons Mowbray and Augustus Saint Gaudens...
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