Joseph Kiselewski

[2] Kiselewski was born to Polish immigrant farmers in Ward township just north of Browerville, Minnesota.

While employed in the studio of sculptor Lee Lawrie, Kiselewski won the Parisian Beaux Arts competition in 1925; received the Prix de Rome in 1926–1929, established a studio in New York in 1929, and was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design, New York City, in 1936, and an Academician in 1944.

They include his involvement, in 1932, with several other art deco era sculptors in the creation of Eight Statuary Groups, each 100" x 121" x 70", sculpted from Georgia pink marble, sited at the Bronx County Courthouse, 161st Street & Grand Concourse.

For the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten Kiselwski designed "Peace" or the "Mourning Woman" of a mother remembering her son.

[8] In 1977 and 1980, Kiselewski donated his papers, covering the period, 1923–1980, to the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Included in the papers were biographical material; award and teaching certificates; files on sculpture commissions containing contracts, correspondence, financial records, sketches, printed material, notes and photographs; approximately three hundred photographs of the sculptor, his studio, and his work; 2 pencil drawings; and other items.