Gorham As A Sculpture Foundry
in the early 1880s Gorham began casting ecclesiastical items, such as lecterns and in 1889 the cast their first statue, The Skirmisher by Frederick Kohlhagen, located at Gettysburg National Military Park. In 1896 their casting of W. Granville Hastings bust, Judge Carpenter was the first in America using the lost-wax casting method. After that the foundry went on to become one of the leading art foundries in the United States.
A 1920 book published by the Gorham Company featured full page photographs of sculptures by such notable sculptors as: Chester Beach, Gutzon Borglum, Allan Clark, Cyrus Dallin, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Laura Gardin Fraser, Harriet Frishmuth, Emil Fuchs, Karl Gruppe, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Isidore Konti, R. Tait McKenzie, Edith Parsons, Alexander Phimister Proctor, and Mahonri Young. they also cast monumental works for such luminaries of the American Renaissance as Augustus Saint Gaudens, Daniel Chester French and James Earle Fraser (sculptor).
The Smithsonian archives of American art list Gorham foundry over 700 times in their inventory of American sculpture.
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