Chester Beach (1881-1956)
Riders of the Elements
42 inches tall

The original 7’ tall plaster maquette was enlarged to be a 42′ tall fountain at the NYC 1939 World’s Fair.

This bronze and plaster sculptures are part of a 1,000 piece museum quality collection of art and objects from the 1939 World’s Fair. .
The collection as a whole is available for sale. Inquiries invited.

This New York Times story offers some background about the collection: http://nyti.ms/1fWLZMc
Chester Beach was an academic sculptor of the figure in both bronze and marble, and he also designed coins. Characteristic works include The Glint of the Sea, a bronze of a nude young woman with arms raised; and the bronzes The Fountain of Waters, Sun Drawing the Waters, and Earth Receiving the Waters, in an outdoor setting at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. Beach worked on Earth and Sun in Rome, Italy in 1929.

Beach exhibited his twenty-six inch high, The Unveiling of Dawn, at the historic 1913 Armory Show on Lexington Avenue in New York City. A Rodinesque sculpture of a male nude embracing the amorphous form of dawn hazily emerging from the marble, it is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Chester Beach studied in California at the California School of Mechanical Arts and the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academy Julian. He was a teacher of sculpture at the Richmond Hill Settlement House from 1910 to 1922, and in 1934, a drawing teacher at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design.

The 1939–40 New York World’s Fair covered 1,216 acres of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, aalso the location of the 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people attended its exhibits in two seasons. The NYWF of 1939–1940 was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an opening slogan of “Dawn of a New Day”, and it allowed all visitors to take a look at “The World of Tomorrow”.

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