terra cotta sculptures alongside his bronze sculptures at gallery shows. Shortly before his death in 1999, Pattison advised his artist son Harry: “If an artist can manage to paint four or five great paintings in a lifetime that’s all that is necessary. It isn’t easy.” Abbott Pattison spent his summers at his home and studio on the coast of Maine, occasionally teaching at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, where he also served on their Board of Governors. He spent his winters in Florence, Italy where the bronze foundry that cast his works is located. The rest of his time he worked in his Chicago studio, occasionally teaching at the Art Institute of Chicago. He continued working to the day of his death at age 82. Currently more than thirty of Pattison’s works are on public display throughout Chicago, and his sculptures are in the collections of universities, corporations and museums worldwide, including the Whitney Museum in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum and the Museum of the Israeli State in Jerusalem. Five of his pieces are owned by the United States State Department and are located in embassies overseas. One of Abbott Pattison’s sculptures is in Buckingham Palace, London. Education and experience Graduate of Yale College, 1937 B.A. Yale School of Fine Arts, 1939 M.F.A. Lived and worked in China and Japan, 1940 US Navy, 1942-45, Served as Captain of Destroyer Escort and P.C. Sub-Chaser Instructor Art Institute School, 1946-52 Worked in France, 1950-51 Visiting Sculptor, University of Georgia, 1953 Sculptor in Residence, University of Georgia, 1954 Teacher of Sculpture, Skowhegan Summer Art School, 1955-56 Worked in Florence, Italy 1955-56 and frequently thereafter Exhibitions Art Institute of Chicago Metropolitan Museum Whitney Museum Pennsylvania Academy Oakland Museum Univ. of Notre Dame Birmingham Museum San Francisco Museum Cali. Palace of the Legion of Honor Cincinnati Museum Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago Wellfleet Art Gallery Georgia State Museum Univ. of Miami Univ. of Pittsburgh Bates College Colby College 8 One-man shows in New York City (formerly represented by Downtown Gallery) Prizes 1939 First Travelling Fellowship, Yale Univ. 1942 Logan Prize, Art Institute of Chicago 1946 Eisendrath Prize, Art Institute of Chicago 1950 and 1953 Pauline Palmer Prize (sculpture), Art Institute of Chicago 1951 Metropolitan Museum $1500 Award in 1st Contemporary American Sculpture Show 1963 Prize International Sculpture