Artwork Title: Isidore Konti

Isidore Konti

Milton Bancroft

Bancroft’s portrait of the sculptor Isidore Konti is the museum’s most recent conservation project, which included cleaning, relining the canvas, infilling missing paint, and framing. Born in Austria to Hungarian parents, Konti worked mainly in the United States, specializing in architectural sculpture—capitals, relief panels, and sculptures for important buildings. He created works for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, and the Pan-American Building in Washington, DC, among other prominent sites. [https://www.iup.edu/news-item.aspx?id=162144&blogid=7981]
Uploaded on May 27, 2018 by Suzan Hamer

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