Bust of Morris K. Jesup
Dublin Core
Title
Bust of Morris K. Jesup
Creator
Couper, William
Source
Lib
Format
32 1/2 (high) x 24 in. (wide at shoulders) x 15 (depth)
Identifier
521
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Biography
William Couper was born in Norfolk, Virginia, where his father owned a profitable stoneworks. As a boy, William played in the marble lots watching artisans make statues. He decided to become a sculptor and trained in New York City, Munich, and in Florence, where he made portraits and idealized busts. He married and started a family in Italy, but decided to move back to America, where he built a large home in New Jersey and shared a studio in New York City with the sculptor Thomas Ball. Couper retired from sculpting in 1913 and painted seascapes in oil and watercolors until his death. (Smithsonian quarterly) lived in Montcalair, NJ, died in Easton, Maryland
More on Couper: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=1012
More on Couper: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=1012
Category
Library
Media
Sculpture
Media Details
Marble sculpture
Signature Position
Signed in the marble (on left side edge of Jesup's jacket)
Collection
Citation
Couper, William, “Bust of Morris K. Jesup,” Westport Public Schools Digital Collections, accessed May 19, 2022, https://collections.westportps.org/items/show/607.
Item Relations
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