Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar | |
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![]() Ulric Dunbar with a death-mask of
George Dewey, 1917 | |
Born | |
Died | 1927 (aged 64–65)
Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Education | Art School of Toronto |
Occupation | Sculptor |
Parent(s) | Alexander Dunbar Susannah Jackson |
Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar (January 31, 1862 – 1927) was a Canadian-born American sculptor.
Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar was born on January 31, 1862, in London, Canada West, the son of Alexander Dunbar and Susannah Jackson. [1] He attended the Art School of Toronto with his brother Frederick and in around 1880, Ulric Dunbar emigrated from Canada to the United States to pursue a career in sculpting. [2]
After working for five years in Philadelphia, [3] Dunbar moved to Washington, D.C. In 1886, he was commissioned to sculpt a model of Vice President Thomas Hendricks that took some four years to complete and was praised for its "straightforward, sober likeness with a degree of honest naturalism". [4] Dunbar subsequently completed a "first-rate" marble bust of President Martin Van Buren. [3] In his lifetime, Dunbar also sculpted models of Sitting Bull, William Wilson Corcoran, and Frederick Douglass, among many others; more than 150 sculptures are attributed to him. He was awarded a bronze medal at the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago and a silver medal at the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. [2] Dunbar served as the secretary of the Society of Washington Artists and counted Rudulph Evans and Louise Kidder Sparrow among his students. [5] Ulric Dunbar died in Washington, D.C. in 1927. [3]
A copy of Dunbar's bust of Thomas Hendricks, formerly in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, was upon that institution's dissolution transferred to the American University Museum. [6] He sculpted a bust of the German-American landscape painter Max Weyl, who also lived in Washington, D.C. and whose works hung in the White House and is in the permanent collection at The Corcoran Art Gallery.