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.

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