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| AITKEN, Robert Ingersoll |
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AITKEN, Robert Ingersoll, American sculptor : b. San Francisco, Calif., May 8, 1878; d. New York, N.Y., Jan. 3, 1949. He studied under Arthur Matthews and Douglas Tilden at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco and served as professor of sculpture there in 1901 - 1904. During this period he executed the William McKinley Monument (1903) in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and the Hall McAllister Monument (1904) in the city. After three years in Paris, Aitken established his studio in New York City and did the busts of Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Clay for the Hall of Fame at New York University. He also executed the Battle of Manila Bay memorial in San Francisco, did two large allegorical sculptures for the Panama-Pacific Exposition (1915) there, and designed the $50 gold piece issued by the United States at the time. The crowning achievements of his career were the west pediment (completed 1934) of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., and the 68-figure frieze (1937) on the Gallery of Fine Arts in Columbus, Ohio.