John Gregory (sculptor)

[1] When he was about 12 years old his family immigrated to the United States where he began his sculptural studies at the Art Students League in New York City.

At various times he studied with J. Massey Rhind, George Grey Barnard, Hermon MacNeil, Gutzon Borglum, Herbert Adams, and Antonin Mercié.

[3] He was one of a dozen sculptors invited to compete in the Pioneer Woman statue competition in 1927,[4] which he failed to win.

[5] In 1937, he completed a gilded bronze equestrian statue of Anthony Wayne for the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

[8] Examples include bas relief panels on the structure and sarcophagus of the Huntington Mausoleum by architect John Russell Pope at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California;[9] and the larger-than-life panels, Columbia and Urban Life, on either side of the steps in John Marshall Park, Judiciary Square, Washington, D.C.[10] Gregory was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the American Federation of Arts, and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design.