Four Chaplains Monument, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Carleton W. Angell American sculptor, born in Belding, Michigan in 1887 and died in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1962. He is buried in Washtenong Memorial Gardens near the World War l Veterans Memorial, under a plaque designed by noted artist, Stanley Kellogg.

[edit] Career

Angell studied sculpture at the Chicago Art Institute and while in Chicago did some designing, and likely modeling, for the American Terra Cotta Company and the Ceramic Company. In 1922 has was hired by the University of Michigan to teach freehand drawing. In 1926 he became the Museums Artist where he created, among things, plaster models of various animals, many of them pre-historic - that were used in the museum's displays. In the course of his 30 years at the University of Michigan he also created numerous portraits and busts and plaques of U of M notables, and these can be found spread all over the university campus.

[edit] Public Works

• Girl with a Cat, Bath school bombing memorial, James Couzens Memorial Auditorium, Bath Middle School, Bath, Michigan, 1928
• Veterans Memorial, Washtenaw Memorial Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1932
• Pumas Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan, 1940
• Four Chaplains Memorial, Arbor Crest memorial Park, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1954

[edit] Architectural Sculpture

Washtenaw County Court House

• Cartouche over main entrance, Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan, Albert Kahn, architect, 1928
• Two panels, Washtenaw County Courthouse, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ralph Gerganoff, architect, 1956

[edit] References

• Catalog of Works of Art by Carleton Watson Angell, Artist, University Museums, University of Michigan, 1926 - 1955, Ann Arbor: University Museums, 1955

• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Annotated Inventory of Outdoor Sculpture in Washtenaw County, 1989 study