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Sep 23, 1860 Ogden, Ohio, Ohio, United States Died on 10 Feb 1957 (aged 96)

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About Eli Harvey

  • Eli Harvey (September 23, 1860 – February 10, 1957) was an American sculptor, painter and animalier.
  • Harvey was born in Ogden, Ohio, a Quaker community in Clinton County, to William P.
  • and Nancy M.
  • Harvey.
  • He attended art school in the Art Academy of Cincinnati where he studied painting with Thomas Satterwhite Noble and sculpture with Louis Rebisso.
  • In 1889 he moved to Paris where he continued his studies, with Lefebvre, Constant, Doucet and finally Frémiet.
  • In 1897 he began exhibiting sculptures of animals at Paris salons and continued doing so until returning to the United States in 1900, by which time he was firmly committed to animal sculpture.His work was exhibited at both the Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo, New York, 1900) and at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904) and a decade later at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco, California, 1915).
  • Harvey also produced architectural sculpture for the lion house at the New York Zoological Park and two lions for the Eaton family mausoleum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Harvey's most popular work was a life-sized elk produced for the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and used at their buildings and in cemeteries around the United States. His home is included on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Clinton County, Ohio.

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