biographie de Joseph Anthony ATCHISON (1895-1967)
Birth place: Wash., DC
Death place: Wash., DC
Addresses: Wash., DC
Profession: Sculptor, painter
Studied: with George Julian Zolnay; Richard Edwin Brooks; P.W. Bartlett
Member: Royal Society of Sculptors, London
Work: Numerous plaques, statuettes, and bronze busts of notable people, including President Franklin Roosevelt; Nat. Mus., Catholic Univ., Nat. Shrine Immaculate Conception, all in Wash., D.C.; frieze, Cleveland Pub. Auditorium; Masonic Auditorium, Pittsburgh, Kans.; U.S. official inaugural medal for Franklin Roosevelt, 1937; Corcoran Gal.; U.S. Capitol; painting, Church Holy Angels, Phila.; World Flight Memorial, Smithsonian Inst.; bronze bust of the Honorable Wade H. Ellis, NMAA; portrait busts, Catholic Univ., Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Comments: Designer: sets, Metropolitan Opera. Inventor: cycloramic structure.
Sources: WW40; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.