Truman Howe Bartlett

Truman Howe Bartlett
Bust of Barlett, created 1887 by Olin Levi Warner
Born	1835 Dorset, Vermont
Died	1922
Nationality	American
Occupation	Sculptor
Children	1, Paul Wayland Bartlett

Truman Howe Bartlett (1835–1922), also known as T. H. Bartlett, was an American sculptor, and father to sculptor Paul Wayland Bartlett.

Biography

Bartlett was born in 1835 in Dorset, Vermont,^[1] studied under Robert Eberhard Launitz in New York City and subsequently in Paris, Rome, and Perugia. He was active in New Haven, Waterbury, and Hartford, Connecticut, and in New York City. For 22 years he was an instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's^[2] architecture department, and also operated a free art school for poor children. He died in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bartlett ran the only school for sculpture in Boston in that late 1800s. It was located on Washington Street, but later moved to Federal Street.^[3] Cyrus Dallin studied with Bartlett from 1880-1881. Bartlett allowed Dallin to live in his studio rent free when his funding ran low and wrote positively of his talents. The relationship would sour and in 1885 Bartlett would be critical of Dallin's winning first effort in the competition to sculpt Paul Revere.^[3]

Bartlett's best known works include The Wounded Drummer Boy of Shiloh, and the Horace Wells Monument (1875) in Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut. Both bronzes were exhibited in Paris. According to Marquis, Bartlett was the first American sculptor to make a figure in terracotta.^[4]

Clark Family Monument (designed by Truman H. Bartlett in 1868; sculpted by Ferdinand von Miller in 1869)

Benedict Family Monument, Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, CT (designed by Truman H. Bartlett in 1871; sculpted by Ferdinand von Miller in 1872)^[5]

References

1. "Truman Howe Bartlett". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
2. "Biography Truman Bartlett". askART. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
3. Francis, Rell (1976). Cyrus E. Dallin Let Justice Be Done. Cyrus Dallin Art Museum. pp. 7–8 22.
4. Marquis, Albert Nelson, ed. (1915). Who's Who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. New England: A.N. Marquis & Company. p. 85. Retrieved 19 February 2016. Truman Howe Bartlett terracotta.
5. Prichard, Sarah Johnson (1896). The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut. The Price and Lee Company. p. 1039. Retrieved 19 February 2016. bartlett.

External links

• Clara Erskine Clement Waters, Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches, Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879, page 37.
• Albert Nelson Marquis, Who's who in New England, A.N. Marquis, 1915, page 85.
• Joseph Thomas, Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology, Lippincott, 1908, page 297.
• AskArt entry