Leonard Volk Collection 1845-1957

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Leonard Volk Collection 1845-1957

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Papers of the American sculptor. Born in Wellstown (now Wells), New York, Volk began work as a marble cutter in his father's shop at Pittsfield, Massachusetts then opened a studio in St. Louis in 1848. Funded by Stephen A. Douglas, a cousin of Volk's wife, he studied art in Rome, then returned to Chicago, where he founded the Chicago Academy of Design in 1867. Among Volk's works are the Douglas Monument (Chicago), the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Rochester, N.Y.), and statues of Abraham Lincolm, Stephen A. Douglas, and others. Collection includes correspondence to and from Volk family members; photographs of a bust of Volk by David Richards, works by Volk, friends and family, and the areas around Pittsfield, Massachusetts and Wells, New York; and material relating to the asembling of the collection by Edward Deming Andrews, Volk's grand-nephew.

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Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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Volk family.

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Volk, Leonard Wells, 1828-1895

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Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895) was an American sculptor. Born November 7, 1828 in Wellstown (now Wells), New York, he was one of twelve children of Garrett and Elizabeth Gesner Volk. At sixteen he began work as a marble cutter in his father's shop in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Four years later, in 1848, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he opened a studio and studied drawing and modeling independent of formal instruction. Stephen A. Douglas, a cousin of Volk's wife, became inter...