Sir Henry Hudson Kitson | |
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| Born | April 9, 1863 |
| Died | June 26, 1947 (aged 84) Tyringham, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | English |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Spouse | Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson (m.1893-div.1909) |
Henry Hudson Kitson (April 9, 1863,[1] 1864 or 1865[2] – June 26, 1947) was an English-American sculptor[3] who sculpted many representations of American military heroes.
Romania's Queen Elisabeth knighted him after he sculpted a marble bust of her in the early 1900s.
His student and first wife, Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson was a sculptor as well, and his brothers, John William Kitson, Samuel James Kitson, and Robert Lewellen Kitson, also had art careers in the United States. He is perhaps best known in the U.S. for his sculpture of the "Minute Man" on Lexington Green, in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- ^ Greenthal. Kozol, Ramirez, ‘’American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’’, Northeastern University Press and the Museam of Fine Arts, Boston., 1986 p. 299, 301
- ^ Taft, Lorado, ‘’The History of American Sculpture’’, The Macmillan Company, New York,1925 p. 489
- ^ Greenthal. Kozol, Ramirez, ‘’American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’’, Northeastern University Press and the Museam of Fine Arts, Boston., 1986 p. 300