1921 - 2002
White is a son and grandson, respectively, of the architects, Lawrence Grant White and Stanford White. His work in sculpture extends into the time and idiom of the mid-twentieth century the family's long tradition of creative expression in classical form.
Robert White studied wood carving with Josef Weisz, and painting with Hans Grad in Munich, Germany, in 1933-34. He took up the study of sculpture with John Howard Benson at the Portsmouth Priory, Rhode Island, from 1935 to 1938, and then continued as a pupil of Benson at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, to 1942, and in 1945-46 returned to RISD for study with with Waldemar Raemisch, John Frazier, and Gordon Peers. His first one-man exhibition was presented at the Suffolk Museum, Stony Brook, New York, in 1948. White was a resident of the American Academy in Rome from 1952 to 1955, having won its Rome Prize three years in succession.
Among his major commissions are a bronze fountain on Martha's Vineyard, 1957; a bronze figure of the saint for the St. Anthony of Padua School, Northport, New York, 1959; three life-size figures in wood of the Holy Family for St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Bedford, Massachusetts, 1960-1966; a bronze relief of Joseph Wilson for the Xerox Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut, 1972; a monument to Bishop Cranmer for St. James Episcopal Church, St. James, New York, 1977; and an eight-foot bronze representing General Pershing in Washington, D. C., 1983.
White has taught at the Parson School of Design, New York; the State University of New York, Stony Brook; the American Academy in Rome; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a trustee of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, Cornish, New Hampshire. For works exhibited in Academy annual exhibitions, he has been awarded the Proctor Memorial Prize in 1962, 1981, and 1987. White was first elected to the Council in 1985, when he began two terms as Academy's second vice president; from 1987 to 1989 he held the post of first vice president; and in 1989 was elected the Academy's corresponding secretary.
Robert White studied wood carving with Josef Weisz, and painting with Hans Grad in Munich, Germany, in 1933-34. He took up the study of sculpture with John Howard Benson at the Portsmouth Priory, Rhode Island, from 1935 to 1938, and then continued as a pupil of Benson at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, to 1942, and in 1945-46 returned to RISD for study with with Waldemar Raemisch, John Frazier, and Gordon Peers. His first one-man exhibition was presented at the Suffolk Museum, Stony Brook, New York, in 1948. White was a resident of the American Academy in Rome from 1952 to 1955, having won its Rome Prize three years in succession.
Among his major commissions are a bronze fountain on Martha's Vineyard, 1957; a bronze figure of the saint for the St. Anthony of Padua School, Northport, New York, 1959; three life-size figures in wood of the Holy Family for St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Bedford, Massachusetts, 1960-1966; a bronze relief of Joseph Wilson for the Xerox Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut, 1972; a monument to Bishop Cranmer for St. James Episcopal Church, St. James, New York, 1977; and an eight-foot bronze representing General Pershing in Washington, D. C., 1983.
White has taught at the Parson School of Design, New York; the State University of New York, Stony Brook; the American Academy in Rome; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a trustee of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, Cornish, New Hampshire. For works exhibited in Academy annual exhibitions, he has been awarded the Proctor Memorial Prize in 1962, 1981, and 1987. White was first elected to the Council in 1985, when he began two terms as Academy's second vice president; from 1987 to 1989 he held the post of first vice president; and in 1989 was elected the Academy's corresponding secretary.
