Isidore Konti

Architectural sculpture

Like many sculptor of that epoch Konti created architectural sculpture. His works in this arena include:

• Tympanum, Grace Chapel, New York City, 1894.
• Spandrel figures, the Elbridge Gerry Mansion, New York City, 1895.
• Three Graces (for which Audrey Munson served as the model) Hotel Astor, New York City, 1907.
• Frieze: “A Festival Procession of the Arts,” Gainsborough Studios, 222 Central Park South, New York City, 1908.
• Statues of Justinian and Alfred the Great, Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Cleveland, Ohio, 1910.
  • Twelve statues: Herbert Adams, Daniel Chester French, and Herman Matzen each modeled two of the others. Karl Bitter modeled four of them.
• Capitals, panels and allegorical figures for the Pan-American Building, Washington D.C. 1910.

Public monuments and fountains

• McKinley Memorial, Yonkers, New York 1906
• Mother and Child: the Bath, fountain in Katonah, New York, c. 1910
• San Pasqual Battlefield Monument, in San Diego, California
• Recumbent figure of Morgan Dix, Trinity Church, New York, 1915
• The Meeting of Air and Water, Gumbel Memorial Fountain, Audubon Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1919.
• A bequest from Sarah Lavinia Hyams funded two identical fountains, with sculpture groups and wading pools:
  • Hyams Memorial Fountain, Audubon Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1921.
  • Hyams Memorial Fountain, City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1921.
• Sarcophagus for Bishop Horatio Potter, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, 1921.
• Yonkers World War I Memorial, Yonkers, NY, 1922.
• Edgar John Lownes Memorial, Swan Point Cemetery, Rhode Island, 1924
• Hudson - Fulton Monument, Yonkers, New York, 1924
• Spanish - American War Memorial, Yonkers, New York, 1928
• Lincoln Monument, Lincoln Park, Yonkers, New York, 1929
• Father Kelehan Memorial, St. Joseph's Cemetery, Yonkers, New York, 1929
• Governor Francis T. Nicholls, State Capitol Building, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1931 Besides these works Isidore Konti produced numerous medals, plaques, figures and figurines that are today highly sought after by museums and collectors. File:William McKinley Philly City Hall.jpg|William McKinley (1908), City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. File:San_Pasqual_Battle_Monument.png|San Pasqual Battlefield Monument (1910), San Diego, California File:Meeting of Bolivar and San Martin DC.jpg|Meeting of Bolivar and San Martin (1910), Pan-American Building, Washington, D.C File:Isidore Konti - Groupe pour fontaine.jpg|Mother and Child: the Bath (c. 1910), Katonah, New York. File:Nymph and Fawn-Konti.jpg|Nymph and Fawn (1917), Indianapolis Museum of Art. File:AudubonPark2.JPG|Gumbel Memorial Fountain (1919), Audubon Park, New Orleans, Louisiana. File:Audubon Park Fountain 5.JPG|Hyams Memorial Fountain (1921), Audubon Park, New Orleans, Louisiana. File:CityPark1921Pool.jpg|Hyams Memorial Fountain (1921), City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana File:Yonkers City Hall west jeh.jpg|World War I Memorial (1922), City Hall, Yonkers, New York. File:Detail of the columns of progress at the Panama Exposition, Isidore Konti.png|Detail of the columns of progress at the Panama Exposition (1915), San Francisco, California

Notes

References

• Craven, Wayne, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Co, NY, NY 1968
• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture in America unpublished manuscript
• Madigan, Mary Jean Smith, The Sculpture of Isidore Konti: 1862 - 1938, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY 1974
• National Sculpture Society, Exhibition of American Sculpture Catalogue, 1923, National Sculpture Society, New York 1923
• Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
• Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968
• Taft, Lorado, The History of American Sculpture, MacMillan Co., New York, NY 1925

References

1. ''Collecting Sculpture.'' Fall 2001. New York: John Graham & Sons, Inc., 2001. 17.
2. Duncan, Alice Levi. ''Paul Manship and His Circle.'' New York: Gerald Peters Gallery, Inc., 2006. 7.
3. Grubb, Nancy, and Carol A. McKeown. ''Paul Manship.'' New York: Cross River Press, Ltd., 1989. 22.
4. "Art Hand-Book: Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the Pan-American Exposition".
5. Presumably the sculpture in tympanum above front door in [[:File:Grace_Church_(Manhattan)_073.jpg. this photo]] and in [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_to_Grace.jpg closer view], although [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tympanum_carving,Grace_Church(NYC).jpg this] is another tympanum sculpture at the church.
6. (2008). "Guide to New York City Landmarks". John Wiley & Sons.
7. [http://depositphotos.com/21656977/stock-photo-bishop-henry-potter.html Bishop Potter sarcophagus], from Deposit Photos.