Born in Brooklyn, NY, 1924, Stanley Bleifeld earned a BFA from Tyler School of Fine Arts, and both a BS in Education and an MFA from Temple University. He has taught at Silvermine Guild Art Center and Western Connecticut State College and is director of the Bleifeld Sculpture Group, New Canaan, CT. Mr. Bleifeld lives and works in Weston, CT, and is represented by the Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, NM.
One-person exhibitions include Franz Bader Gallery, Washington; Kenmore Gallery, Philadelphia; New Britain Museum of Art, CT; FAR Gallery, New York; and the Peridot Gallery, New York. He has created the Father McGivney Memorial, KC International Headquarters, New Haven, CT; U.S. Navy Memorial, Washington, DC; Henry C. Singleton Monument, Key West, FL; Marine Relief, Brookgreen Gardens, SC; Lone Sailor, Golden Gate, San Francisco; Homecoming memorial, Norfolk, VA; and designed the Medal of Liberty, ACLU. Group exhibitions include International Art Festival, RI; American Federation of the Arts; Connecticut Commission on the Arts; executed relief sculptures in the Vatican Pavilion, NY World's Fair, 1964; and the Parrish Art Museum. Mr. Bleifeld's work is in the collections of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY; Museum of the City of New York; Fairfield University, CT; New Britain Museum of Art; Tampa Bay Art Center; Temple University; Westmoreland Museum, PA; Pennsylvania State Museum; L.B. Johnson Library, TX. He is the recipient of numerous prizes at the National Academy of Design's Annual Exhibitions, including the Agopoff Prize, the Shikler Award, and the Meiselman Prize. He is a Tiffany Fellow; and a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society, where he also served as president, 1991-93; the Hexter Award; Henry Hering Awards; Chilmark Award; and the Century Association's Federation Internationale de la Medaille.
