Henry Hudson Kitson

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Henry Hudson Kitson, often known as H. H. Kitson, American sculptor, born in Huddersfield, England on April 9, 1865 and died at Tyringham, Massachusetts, on June 26, 1947.

He migrated to the United States in 1877 where he was employed as a stone carver by his brother, Samuel James Kitson. During the 1880s Kitson moved to Paris where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under the sculptor Bonnassieux. He returned to the United States where he received numberous commissions and began teaching. In 1893 he married Theo Alice Ruggles, a former student of his, who went on to have a successful career of her own as Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson. The noted sculptor Gaston Lachaise worked in his atelier.

He was the author of numerous public monuments, and left behind his home Santarella in Tyringham.

Minute Man Statue, Lexington, Massachusetts

Roger Conant Statue, Salem, Massachusetts

[edit] Selected works

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