Leon Hermant (1866–1936) was an American sculptor best known for his architectural sculpture.
Hermant was born in France, educated in Europe and came to America in 1904 to work on the French Pavilion at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. For most of his career he was based in Chicago, working mostly in the American midwest, and frequently with a partner Carl Beil.
In 1928 Hermant was awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for his Louis Pasteur Monument in Grant Park, Chicago.
Public monuments
Confederate Monument (1908) Parkersburg, West Virginia William Shakespeare, (1915) Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Louis Pasteur Memorial, (1928) Grant Park, Chicago Heroes of Illinois Memorial (1928) Memphis National Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee Governor Edward Coles Memorial, (1929) Valley View Cemetery, Edwardsville, Illinois George Rogers Clark, (1932), Fort Massac, Metropolis, Illinois Polar Bear Memorial (1930) White Chapel Cemetery, Troy, Michigan General John A. Logan Monument, Murphysboro, Illinois
Architectural sculpture Cathedral of St. Paul (1905), St. Paul, Minnesota, Emmanuel Louis Masqueray architect Illinois Athletic Club Building, (1908), Chicago Cook County Building, (1911), Chicago University High School, (1918), Urbana, Illinois Holabird & Roche architects Benjamin Franklin Bridge, (1926) Philadelphia, Paul Cret, architect Detroit Institute of Art (1927), Paul Cret et al. architect, Detroit Radisson Chicago Hotel Reliefs, (1929), Chicago One N La Salle Street (1930), Vitzthum & Burns architects, Chicago carvings at the Indiana State Library and Historical Building, (1934) Indianapolis Four Modes of Travel, Calvert Street Bridge, now Duke Ellington Bridge, (1935) Washington D.C. United States Customs Building, (1936) Washington, D.C. WPA United States Interstate Commerce Commission Building, (1936) Washington D.C.
References
Bach, Ira and Mary Lackritz Gray, Chicago's Public Sculpture, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1983 Falk, Peter Hastings, Editor Who Was Who in American Art, Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985 Kvaran and Lockley, A Guide to Architectural Sculpture in America Riedy, James L., Chicago Sculpture, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois 1981 Rooney, William A., Architectural Ornamentation in Chicago, Chicago Review Press, Chicago, 1984 Scheinman, Muriel, A Guide to the Art at the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, Robert Allerton Park and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1995
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