Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| | Sculptor. Born in Richmond, VA on Jan. 28, 1872. Lukeman studied with Daniel C. French and at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1911 he completed Angel of Death, a life-size bronze memorial for the family of U. S. Grant Jr. at Greenwood Cemetery in San Diego. He later worked on the colossal sculptures on Stone Mountain, Georgia which had been started by Gutzon Borglum. Member: ANA (1909). Exh: Louisiana Purchase Expo (St Louis), 1904 (bronze medal). In: MM. CAS; Fld; AAA 1933; NY Times, 4-4-1935 (obit). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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Augustus Lukeman is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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