Alexander Phimister Proctor - Settling in New York City

Settling in New York City

Proctor perhaps is known best for the horse underneath William Tecumseh Sherman in Grand Army Plaza. Prior to 1910 he completed a pair of large bronze tigers flanking the steps of Nassau Hall at Princeton University, and some animal heads at the Bronx Zoo.

Alexander Phimister Proctor and Alden Sampson had McKim, Mead & White design a three-story double-studio for them on Fifty-first Street, off of Third Avenue, in 1911. The building had a romantic brick facade with double-height rooms on the second and third floors, step-out balconies, and a projecting pent-eave roof. While the building no longer exists, it did represent an intriguing collaboration between the preeminent architecture firms and one of the leading sculptors of wildlife of their day.

From this studio in 1922 he completed a model of a sculpture of Theodore Roosevelt for Portland, Oregon. The sculpture was commissioned from Henry Waldo Coe. Coe and Roosevelt had met in North Dakota where Roosevelt had gone following the tragic death of his wife and mother. There they formed a lasting relationship. Coe later had a sculpture of Roosevelt made which he donated to the city of Portland. Other statues he donated were of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Jeanne d'Arc. A second sculpture was cast from this same mold, moved, and dedicated in Oyster Bay, New York on October 29, 2005.

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