George Grey Barnard

Sculptor and collector, born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1880–3) and in Paris (1883–7), travelled, and collected mediaeval antiquities that became part of the Cloisters Museum, New York. Based in New York City from 1896, he was known for his idealized marble sculptures.

George Grey Barnard (May 24, 1863 - April 24, 1938) was an American sculptor. Barnard was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Kankakee, Illinois.

A strong Rodin influence is evident in his early work. the allegorical “Two Natures” (1894, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York); “Great God Pan” Dodge Hall quadrangle, Columbia University campus, New York City; In 1912 he completed several figures for the new state capitol at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

The Great God Pan, one of the first works Barnard completed after his return to America, according to at least one account, was originally intended for the Dakota Apartments on Central Park West. Alfred Corning Clark, builder of the Dakota, had financed Barnard's early career; when Clark died in 1896, the Clark family presented Barnard's Two Natures to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in his memory, and the giant bronze Pan was presented to Columbia University, by Clark's son, Edward Severin Clark, 1907.

Interested in medieval art, Barnard gathered discarded fragments of Gothic architecture from French villages. He established this collection near his home in Washington Heights, New York City, in a building that he called the Cloisters.

Barnard died following a heart attack at the Harkness Pavillion, Columbia University Medical Center in New York. He was working on a statue of Abel, betrayed by his brother Cain, when he fell ill.