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Gaetano Cecere

American, 1894 - 1985

BiographyA sculptor who studied with Herman Atkins MacNeil at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, Gaetano Cecere was born in New York City. He served in World War I in the U.S. Army and for heroism, not involving combat, received the Soldier's Medal. In 1920, he received the Prix de Rome and used that for the next three years to study at the American Academy in Rome, where he met his future wife, painter Ada Rasario (Cecere).

Based in New York City after the War, he was Director of the Department of Sculpture at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. He later lived in Princeton, New Jersey; Old Greenwich, Connecticut; and did commissions in Galveston and San Augustine, Texas.

He died in a hospital in Stamford, Connecticut and is buried in the Bronx, New York.

Among his works are a statue of General Sidney Sherman in Galveston, Texas; a statue of Senator James Pinckney Henderson in San Augustine, Texas; and relief portraits in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives including Alphonso X, King of Leon and Castile; and George Mason, statesman from Virginia.

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