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Henri Schonhardt

1875 – 1953

Henri Schonhardt was born in 1875 in South Providence to German parents. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Academie Julian in 1898, the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs as well as the Ecole Beaux Arts. He returned to Rhode Island in 1903 to instruct modeling at RISD, where he continued for six years. His sculptural work was awarded an honorable mention at the Paris Salon of 1908. The following year he married Catherine Connor, one of his students, and settled in the Fruit Hill section of Providence at a time when it was merely farmlands. Over the course of his career he earned moderate success with commissioned sculptural work and a reputation as a reserved intellectual, strong-minded and purposeful.

He is best known for four life size bronze sculptures of important Rhode Islanders installed throughout the state—his monument of Col. Henry Tillinghast Sisson, located at the Commons in Little Compton, installed in 1917; General Nathaniel Greene, installed at the State House in 1931; the Scout, completed in 1911, at Burnside Park in front of City Hall; and the Soldiers and Sailor Monument at Bristol Town Hall, completed in 1914.

  • Grace Albee 1890 - 1985 *
  • Percy Albee 1883 - 1969
  • Edward M. Bannister 1828 - 1901
  • Elijah Baxter 1828 - 1901
  • Anna R. Brewster 1870-1952
  • Sydney Burleigh 1853-1931
  • Henry Newell Cady 1849-1935
  • Samuel Roscoe Chaffee 1850 – 1913
  • Antonio Cirino 1888 - 1983
  • Edgar Corbridge 1901-1988
  • F. Usher DeVoll 1873 - 1941
  • William Staples Drown - 1856 - 1915
  • H.A. Dyer 1872 - 1943 *
  • H. Cyrus Farnum 1866-1926
  • Walter Feldman 1925-2017
  • Ruth Forrest 1919-1994
  • John Frazier 1889 - 1966
  • Eliza Gardiner 1871 - 1955
  • Rebecca Russel Greene - 1879 - 1953
  • Mary Helme Hale - 1862-1940
  • James Herbert 1898 - 1970
  • George Hitchcock 1850 - 1913
  • Margarete Koehler-Bittkow (1897-1964)
  • E.C. Leavitt 1842-1904
  • Florence Leif 1913 - 1968 *
  • Steven W. Macomber 1889-1983
  • Edna Martin 1896-1996
  • Frank C. Mathewson 1861 - 1941
  • Maxwell Mays 1918 - 2009
  • Angela O'Leary 1879-1921
  • Gordon Peers 1909 - 1988
  • Henri Schonhardt 1875 – 1953
  • Charles Stetson 1858-1911
  • Emma Swan 1853 - 1927
  • George Whitaker 1840 - 1916
  • Mabel May Woodward, 1877 - 1945

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