Launt Thompson, New York sculptor.
From: The Magazine Antiques
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Date: 11/1/2002
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Author: Allen, Elizabeth K.
The mature career of Launt Thompson (see Fig. 1) coincided with the exciting period of public sculpture after the Civil War, when the United States began to mine its history for subjects worthy of representation in marble or bronze. Gradually abandoning the European-derived neoclassicism of the first generation of American sculptors, Thompson and his contemporaries forged a more realistic style and created a sculptural pantheon of political, military, artistic, and literary heroes ...
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