biographie de Carl Ethan AKELEY (1864-1926)

Birth place: Clarendon, NY

Death place: Kabale, Uganda

Profession: Sculptor

Exhibited: AIC, 1916.

Member: Nat. Sculpture Soc., 1914; Arch. Lg; Nat. Inst. Soc. Sciences; Franklin Inst.

Work: bronzes, West Side Unitarian Church, NYC; Brooklyn Inst. Mus.; Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.

Comments: A noted naturalist, collector and mounter of wildlife specimens, engineer and inventor, as well as sculptor; he became associated with the Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. in 1909 and was in Africa collecting specimens for that institution at the time of his death.