Biografie von Leo MOL (1915-2009)

Birth place: Ukraine

Addresses: Winnipeg, Man R2H 1V9

Profession: Sculptor

Studied: Kunst Akad., Berlin, Germany; Acad. Art, The Hague, Netherlands.

Exhibited: Winnipeg Art Gal., Manitoba, 1950-71; Royal Can. Acad. Arts, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto & Winnipeg, 1956-70; Art Gal., Hamilton, Ont., 1956-71; Mus. FA, Montreal, 1959; All. Artists Am., Nat. Acad. Gals., NYC, 1963-64. Awards: All. Artists Medal, Royal Arch. Inst. Can., 1960; first prize in competition for monument in Wash., DC, 1962; Jacob C. Stone Prize, All. Artists Am., 1963.

Member: Royal Can. Acad. Arts.

Work: Hamilton Art Gal., Ont.; McMichael Conservatory Art, Kleinberg, Ont.; Toronto Art Gal., Ont.; Winnipeg Art Gal., Man.; Vatican, Rome, Italy. Commissions: mon. to a poet, T. Shevchenko, Citizen's Comt., Wash., DC, 1964; bust of Right Hon. J.G. Diefenbaker, Senate, Ottawa, Can., 1964; bust of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gettysburg, PA, 1965; bust of Pope Paul VI, St. Clements Univ., Rome, Italy, 1967; mon. to T. Shevchenko, Citizen's Comt., Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971.

Comments: Preferred medium: bronze.

Sources: WW73; Leo Mol, Sculptor," Royal Arch. Inst. Can. Journal