Donald (Harcourt) De Lue - Public monuments, Architectural sculpture, Images

Sculptor, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He studied in Boston and Paris, established a studio in New York City (1938), and lived in Leonardo, NJ. He is known for his heroic and large sculptures, as in his bronze, The Rocket Thrower (1964–5).

In 1941 De Lue won a competition to create sculpture for the Philadelphia Post Office and from then on he stopped being an assistant for other artists and only worked on his own commissions and creations.

De Lue taught at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City during the early 1940s.

Public monuments

Triton Fountain, Federal Reserve Bank Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1941 Harvey Firestone]] Memorial, Akron, Ohio, 1950 Spirit of American Youth, figures of France and America and urns, U.S. Battle Monument, St. Laurent, Normandy, France, 1953-1956 George Washington as a Mason, New Orleans, Louisiana 1960, Wallingford, Connecticut 1965, Detroit, Michigan 1966, Alexandria, Virginia 1966, Lansing, Michigan 1982, Indianapolis, Indiana 1987, Flushing, New York The Mountaineer,West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1971 Louisiana State Monument, Gettysburg Battlefield, 1971 Mississippi State Monument, Gettysburg Battlefield, 1973

Architectural sculpture

Alchemist, University of Pennsylvania, Chemistry Building, 1940 Eagles, United States Court House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1941 Law and Justice, Post Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1941

Images

Louisiana Memorial

detail, Louisiana Memorial

Mississippi Memorial