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Sidney Waugh
American, 1904 - 1963
At Salon exhibitions in 1928 and 1929, he won bronze and silver medals. From 1930 to 1933, he studied at the Rinehart School of Sculpture in Baltimore and then spent another three years at the American Academy in New York.
He is mainly known for his accomplishments in his long time job as designer for Steuben Glass. One of his designs was the Gazelle Bowl, a thick rounded vessel set atop an angular base and decorated with an engraving of a dozen leaping gazelles. "Such graceful yet dynamic designs set the tone for Steuben glassware for more than a decade."(Cerio)
During World War Two, he served with the U.S. Army Air Fore, serving in North Africa and Europe, especially Italy where he worked under fire to rescue cultural treasures. For this effort he was given the Croix de Guerre, Silver Star and Bronze Star.
He also did figural public sculpture including work at the National Archives and the Federal Reserve Board buildings. President Truman chose his pieces as gifts for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and for Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
Waugh’s sculpture has also been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute, the Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was a member of the New York City Art Commission, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, was a trustee of the American Academy in Rome, and served as president of the National Sculpture Society.
Waugh died at the age of 59 of natural causes.
Sources:
Gregory Cerio, "Seeing Through Modernism", Magazine Antiques, January 2009.
The Monuments Men:
http://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/bio.php?id=315
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