George Brewster (sculptor)

George Thomas Brewster (1862–1943) was an American sculptor and architectural sculptor, known for his portraits and war memorials. Brewster also taught modeling at Cooper Union beginning 1900; Art Students League of New York beginning 1886; and Rhode Island School of Design, between 1893 and 1894.

George Brewster studied at the Massachusetts State Normal Art School in Boston, and then spent three years in Paris as a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Among his teachers were Augustin Dumont and Antonin Mercie.

• Victory (finial figure), architectural sculpture, Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1897-1902.
• Stephen Decatur, Dewey Triumphal Arch, New York City, 1899 (destroyed).
• Independent Man (finial figure), atop Rhode Island State House, Providence, Rhode Island, 1899-1900.
• Protection of the Flag, Village Green, Athens, Pennsylvania, 1902.
• Portrait medallions on exterior of Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904.
• Bas-relief portrait of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1904.
• Greek Drama and Greek State, statues on exterior of Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York City, 1907-09.
• Equestrian statue of William Penn Hussey, New England Home for the Deaf, Danvers, Massachusetts, 1913.
• Patrick Walsh, Barrett Plaza, Augusta, Georgia, 1913.
• Alexander Hamilton - 1793, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1918.
• Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Plymouth, Pennsylvania, dedicated in 1920.
• Thomas Redfield Proctor Monument, Roscoe Cankling Park, Utica, New York, 1921.
• Portrait bust of Robert E. Lee, Hall of Fame for Great Americans, Bronx Community College, Bronx, New York City, 1923.

Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, Mississippi

• Lieut. Colonel S. H. Griffin (1911)
• Brig. General John W. Whitfield (1913)
• Brig. Gen. Elias S. Dennis (1915)
• Brig. Gen. States Rights Gist (1915)
• Brig. Gen. Alvin P. Hovey (1915)
• Brig. Gen. Nathan Kimball (1915)
• Major General Dabney H. Maury (1915) one of the monuments vandalized in 2003
• Brig. General William Vandever (1915)
• Colonel Eugene Erwin (1916)
• Brig. Gen. Thomas E. G. Ransom (1916)
• Lt. Col. Melancthon Smith (1916)
• Captain Patrick H. White (1917)
• Major Alexander Yates (1917)
• Major Joseph W. Anderson (1919)
• Colonel Skidmore Harris (1919)
• Colonel Randal MacGavock (1919)
• Lieut. Colonel Madison Rogers (1919)
• Major General Cadwallader Washburn (1919)
• Major Robert B. Campbell (1920)
• Captain Toby Hart (1921), one of the monuments vandalized in 2003
• Lieut. Colonel L. L. McLaurin (1921)
• Major Frederick N. Ogden (1921)
• Governor Oliver P. Morton (1926)

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  Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1898.

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  Protection of the Flag (1902), Athens, Pennsylvania.

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  Saint Louis Art Museum (1904), Saint Louis, Missouri.

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  Patrick Walsh (1913), Barrett Plaza, Augusta, Georgia.