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for Mitchell Fields
Romanian/American, 1901 - 1966
Fields studied at the Academy 1921-22, and at Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. A sculptor, he was a specialist in portraiture, and among his more celebrated subjects were Albert Einstein, Sholem Aleichem, and Theodore Dreiser. For works shown at the Academy he received the Barnett Prize in winter exhibition of 1929; the Watrous Gold Medal in the annual exhibitions of 1949 and 1955; and the Proctor Prize in the annuals of 1951 and 1965. He was the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships in 1932 and 1935. Fields taught and lectured on sculpture in Tel Aviv, Isreal, in 1957 and 1958. He had been engaged to serve on the Academy school faculty for the 1966-67 season.
