1912 - 1993
Terken studied in New York at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, the New York School of Fine and Industrial Arts, and Columbia University School of Fine Arts. He has taught sculpture privately and in adult education courses for the State of New York and has lived and worked in East Meadow, Long Island, for many years.
Among his major works are a number of portrait busts: Albert Einstein (Hall of Scholars, East Meadow, N. Y.), Oliver Wendall Holmes (East Meadow High School); and Thomas Edison (Edison Vocational High School, Queens, N. Y.). His relief of Martin Luther King is in South Carolina and one entitiled The Conquest of Space is at Benjamin Schlesinger School, Rochdale, New York. He has created fountains for Nassau County Park, East Meadow, New York, and for St. Croix, Virgin Islands, and a memorial to Richard Henry Dana for Dana Point, California.
Terken has won numerous awards including the National Academy's 1976 Dessie Greer Prize for his portrait of Jacques Yves Cousteau (cat. no. 45); and the 1985 Watrous Medal for Old Man and the Sea (n.n.).
Among his major works are a number of portrait busts: Albert Einstein (Hall of Scholars, East Meadow, N. Y.), Oliver Wendall Holmes (East Meadow High School); and Thomas Edison (Edison Vocational High School, Queens, N. Y.). His relief of Martin Luther King is in South Carolina and one entitiled The Conquest of Space is at Benjamin Schlesinger School, Rochdale, New York. He has created fountains for Nassau County Park, East Meadow, New York, and for St. Croix, Virgin Islands, and a memorial to Richard Henry Dana for Dana Point, California.
Terken has won numerous awards including the National Academy's 1976 Dessie Greer Prize for his portrait of Jacques Yves Cousteau (cat. no. 45); and the 1985 Watrous Medal for Old Man and the Sea (n.n.).
