Biografie von Eugene Francis SAVAGE (1883-1978)

Birth place: Covington, IN

Addresses: Woodbury, CT; NYC

Profession: Painter, teacher, sculptor

Studied: CGA; AIC; Am. Acad. in Rome; Reynolds; Henderson.

Exhibited: Arch. Lg., 1921 (gold); AIC, 1922 (gold), 1924 (prize), 1925 (prize); NAD, 1922 (prize), 1924 (gold), 1961 (mural prize); Corcoran Gal biennials, 1923, 1926, 1928; PAFA Ann., 1924, 1926; Grand Central Gal., 1926 (prize),1929 (prize). Other awards: Fellowship, Am. Acad. in Rome, 1912-15.

Member: ANA, 1924; NA, 1926; NSMP; Century Assn.; Mural Artists Gld.

Work: AIC; CAM; LACMA; Providence Mus. Art; fountain, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn; Nebraska State Mus.; Herron AI; Oshkosh Pub. Mus.; murals, Yale Univ.; Columbia Univ.; USPO, Wash., DC; Greenwich House, NYC; Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles; Purdue Univ., 1961; Penn. Treasury, Harrisburg; murals, WFNY 1939; Elks Nat. Mem., Chicago; Covington (IN) Court House; Texas State Centennial Mem., Dallas, 1936; mosaics, Tabernacle facade, Honolulu U.S. Military Mem., Epinal, France; Queens County Court House, 1960; work reproduced in Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Comments: Author: report on art schools for Carnegie Corporation of NY. Position: appointed to Nat. Comm. FA, by Pres. Hoover, re-appointed by Pres. Roosevelt; William Leffingwell Prof. FA, Emeritus, Yale Univ.

Sources: WW66; WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series.