Charles Tefft

He studied sculpture with Frederick Ruckstull at the Artist-Artisan Institute in New York City.

He worked for a while as an apprentice to John Quincy Adams Ward.

He set up his own studio in Tompkinsville, New York, and later in Guilford, Maine.

As with many sculptors of his generation, Tefft produced architectural sculpture, most notably a figure Renaissance Art, for Cass Gilbert's Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri.

[1] Tefft was chosen as the director of sculpture at the Sesquicentennial Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1926.