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for Ralph Hamilton Humes
1902 - 1981
Humes became interested in sculpture while recuperating from injuries received in a serious military accident. He subsequently sought instruction in 1924 at the Rinehart School of Sculpture in Baltimore under J. Maxwell Miller. The following year, he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he studied under Albert Laessle and Charles Grafly. In 1929 and 1930, he won Cresson Traveling Scholarships for study in Europe. The influence of Laessle is evident in Humes' predilection for the modeling of figures of small animals. For example, his The Eagle's Egg, Jumping Squirrel, Performing Goat and Wounded Crow are all at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. After 1934, he made his home in Florida.
