Walker Hancock - Selected Works

Selected Works

  • Zuni Bird Charmer (bronze, 1931), Bird House, St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Bond of Postal Union (limestone, 1934), pedimental sculpture group (Pennsylvania Avenue facade), New Post Office Building (now Ariel Rios Federal Building), Washington, DC (with Adolph Alexander Weinman).
  • 5 bas relief busts: Beatty, Foch, Pershing, Diaz, Jacques, (bronze, 1934–35), Liberty Memorial, National World War I Monument, Kansas City, Missouri.
  • 4 monumental sculpture groups: Vision, Courage, Sacrifice, Loyalty (granite, 1936–38), Soldiers' Memorial, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Piatt Andrew Memorial (1938), Museum of Franco-American Cooperation, Blérancourt, France. A replica of the Andrew bust is at American Friends Service Committee Headquarters in New York City.
  • Triton Fountain (plaster, 1938–39, destroyed), 1939 New York World's Fair, Flushing, Queens, New York City. A one-third-scale version of one of the figures is at Elizabeth Gordon Smith Park, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
  • Judge Charles Lincoln Brown (marble, 1940), Philadelphia Municipal Courthouse, 1801 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Bust of Stephen Collins Foster (bronze, 1941), Hall of Fame for Great Americans, Bronx, New York.
  • Air Medal (1942).
  • Bust of Robert Frost (bronze, 1950), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Angel of the Resurrection (bronze, 1950–52), Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial, 30th Street Station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • President Dwight David Eisenhower Inaugural Medal (gold, 1953), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Hancock's 1957 inaugural medal features profiles of both President Eisenhower and Vice-President Richard M. Nixon.
  • Statue of John Joseph Eagan (bronze, 1953–55), American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Birmingham, Alabama.
  • Relief bust of Andrew W. Mellon (marble, 1954), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  • Bust of Woodrow Wilson (bronze, 1956), Hall of Fame for Great Americans, Bronx, New York.
  • Bust of Governor Percival P. Baxter (bronze, 1956), Maine State House, Augusta, Maine.
  • Statue of John Paul Jones (bronze, 1957), William M. Reilly Memorial, Philadelphia Museum of Art Sculpture Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Statue of Paul Weeks Litchfield, (bronze, 1961), Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio.
  • Confederate Memorial (granite, 1917–72), Stone Mountain, Georgia. Hancock supervised its completion, 1964-72.
  • The Garden of Gethsemani (bronze, 1965–66), The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Bardstown, Kentucky.
  • Air (bronze, 1978–82), Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Arion on a Dolphin (bronze, 1989), Dunn Tower, Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas.
  • Bust of W. E. B. DuBois (marble, 1993), Memorial Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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