Sculptures
Mario Garcia Menocal
Mario Joseph Korbel, American sculptor born in Osik, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) on March 22, 1882 to a clergyman, Joseph Korbel and his wife Katherina Dolezal Korbel. He began studying sculpture in his homeland, continuing his studies after moving to the United States at age 18. He returned to Europe and continued his studies in Berlin, Munich and Paris.[1]
He was one of a dozen sculptors invited to compete in the Pioneer Woman statue competition in 1927. [2], which he failed to win.
Korbel was a member of the National Sculpture Society. [3]
He died March 31, 1954.
Works
His sculpture can be found at:
Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
Art Institute of Chicago
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut
Museum of Fine Arts of St Petersburg, St Petersburg, Florida
Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
Fogg Museum. Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cranbrook Educational Community, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Illinois Monument, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Marietta, Georgia
Racine Heritage Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
‘’Black Angel’’, Oakland Cemetery (Iowa City, Iowa), Iowa City, Iowa
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
McPhee Memorial, Denver, Colorado
Ezekiel W. Cullen Building, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Alma Mater statue, Universidad de La Habana, Havana, Cuba (1919)
as well as several the Czech Republic.
References
^ Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, SC, 1968 p. 231
^ ‘’Exhibition of Models for a Monument to the Pioneer Woman’’ at the Chicago Architectural Exhibition, East Galleries, Art Institute of Chicago, June 25 to August 1, 1927
^ National Sculpture Society, ‘’Contemporary American Sculpture’’, National Sculpture Society, NY 1929
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