Edmond Thomas Quinn

Quinn was born December 20, 1868, in Philadelphia, to John and Rosina McLaughlin Quinn. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins. Following Eakins's February 1886 forced-resignation from PAFA, Quinn followed him to the Art Students League of Philadelphia, and later became that short-lived school's curator. In Paris he trained for a time as a sculptor in the studio of Jean Antoine Injalbert. ==Career==

He exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design, showing paintings in 1891, 1893, 1905, 1906 and 1907. He first showed his sculpture there in 1908, and annually for many years, usually portrait busts. He won a silver medal for his bronze sculpture of model Audrey Munson at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. He also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (paintings: 1891, 1894, 1897; sculptures: 1899, 1901, 1905–06, 1908–10, 1914–16, 1921, 1923, 1925–26, 1928, posthumously 1930), and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1920, and was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the Century Association, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Players Club, for whom he executed his statue of Booth. Quinn was recognized as being a fine portraitist whose work "shows taste and conscience." His portrait busts include Franklin Hooper, Sylvester Malone, Edwin Markham, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Padraic Colum and Eugene O'Neill. His half-length, oil-on-canvas portrait of Attilio Piccirilli, the sculptor whose studio executed many works of American Beaux-Arts masters, is in the National Academy of Design, as are his painted portraits of Furio Piccirilli and Sherry E. Fry. The National Portrait Gallery has a large number of his portrait busts. __NOTOC__ ==Death==

In May 1929, Quinn tried to kill himself by drinking poison. He was found drowned off Governors Island, New York City in September 1929, a suicide. Quinn's papers are at Yale University. ==Selected works==

File:Gramercy Park Edwin Booth statue.jpg|Actor Edwin Booth (1918), Gramercy Park, New York City. File:Pemberton statue at Vicksburg National Military Park.jpg|General John C. Pemberton (1917), Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, Mississippi. File:WLHC Fall 07008.jpg|Harry Wright Monument (1897), West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwydd, Pennsylvania. File:Kings Mountain National Military Park - South Carolina (8558911902) (2).jpg|Bas reliefs (1908), King's Mountain Battle Monument, South Carolina. File:PittsburghAthleticAssociation.jpg|Pittsburgh Athletic Association (1911), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. File:New Rochelle WWI Memorial American Architect Feb. 15, 1922 p.129.jpg|Victory (1921), World War I Memorial, New Rochelle, New York. File:Edwin Booth HoF jeh.jpg|Edwin Booth (1926), Hall of Fame for Great Americans, Bronx, New York City. File:Central Park NYC - Victor Herbert statue by Edmund Thomas Quinn - IMG 5718 crop.JPG|Victor Herbert (1927), Central Park, New York City. File:J. Marion Sims statue in Columbia, SC IMG 4780.JPG|Dr. J. Marion Sims (1929), Columbia, South Carolina. ==References==