John A. Wilson (sculptor)
John Albert Wilson was a Canadian sculptor who produced public art for commissions throughout North America. He was a professor in the School of Architecture at Harvard University for 32 years. He is most famous for his American Civil War Monuments: the statue on the Confederate Student Memorial on the campus of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the Washington Grays Monument in Philadelphia.
John A. Wilson sculpting Washington Grays Monument (1907)
Washington Grays Monument, Philadelphia
John A Wilson in studio creating Washington Grays Monument, Boston
Firemen's Memorial
Harvard Graduate School of Design
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, real estate, design engineering, and design studies.
Charles Eliot Norton brought the first architecture courses to Harvard University in 1874
Gund Hall, designed by architect John Andrews in 1972, is the home of the Harvard Graduate School of Design
The historic Robinson Hall in Harvard Yard was the home of the GSD until 1972, when the school moved to nearby Gund Hall.
Gund Hall's huge slanted glass roof provides light to the 5 staggered levels of studio space, known as the Trays
