Edmond Amateis

Edmond Romulus Amateis (27 February 1897; Rome, Italy – 1 May 1981; Clermont, Florida) was an American sculptor and educator.

Amateis was the son of Louis Amateis (1855−1913), a noted sculptor who had immigrated from Italy in 1883 and became founder of the School of Architecture at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Edmond Amateis received his early education in Washington and took up the study of art at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City, in 1915,[1] which were interrupted during World War I by service in the United States Army.

While in Europe, he spent four months in Paris at the Académie Julian with François Boucher and Paul Landowski as his teachers.

When he returned to the United States, he resumed his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute, combined with work in the studios of Henry Shrady and John Clements Gregory.

[2] After his return to the United States he was commissioned with a number of important works of architectural sculpture, such as Amateis also designed many fountain and garden figures and also modeled numerous portrait busts and small bronzes.