[1] Adrien Alexandre Voisin was born in 1890 in the town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York, to parents from France.
While studying at Beaux-Arts de Paris, Voisin was using the Fonderie Valsuani [fr] an art bronze foundry, when he met the sculptor Alexander Calder, who was a few years older.
[10] Voisin returned to Paris in 1930 to exhibit his Native American bronze cast sculptures, which won him awards.
[1][14] At the time of the donation, the center had planned an entire Voisin Gallery wing dedicated to his work.
He was preceded in death by his wife Frances Maude Voisin (née Vahuy) in 1965, and they are both buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery.
[15] Voisin created notable portrait busts, included busts of Benjamin Franklin Irvine (1935), editor of The Oregon Journal;[16] John Two Guns White Calf, a Piegan Blackfeet chief;[3] and Vachel Lindsay, poet.