John Rogers groups : notes, 1965 Dec. 27.
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Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society (N.Y.)
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Bodem, Dennis R.
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Chief of Resources at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society in 1965. From the description of John Rogers groups : notes, 1965 Dec. 27. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 34005118 ...
Rogers, John, 1829-1904
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John Rogers (1829-1904) was born in Salem, Mass., and received his education in the Boston public schools. While employed in various jobs he began to model in clay during his leisure hours and in 1858-1859 spent time in Rome studying methods of reproducing clay groups in plaster form. On his return, he went to Chicago where he exhibited, for a charity fair, "The Checker Players," a group in clay that attracted much favorable attention. During the Civil War, he modeled small statuette groups, mos...