Hermon Atkins MacNeil: BIOGRAPHY Published !!!
ByAuthor and historian, James E. Haas has completed
“Hermon Atkins MacNeil:
American Sculptor
In the Broad, Bright Daylight”
Now
, Seventy-Five years after the sculptor’s death,
this definitive BIOGRAPHY is available.
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Webmaster comments:
Our “Uncle Hermon,”
(who kept his gold and silver award medals in a drawer),
would be a little embarrassed
but modestly proud.
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James E. Haas
This is Haas’ sixth book. All his works are rooted in the history of College Point.
James Haas grew up there in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s. He learned as a boy that the twenty-five cent pieces that made a home in his pocket, were designed by a former neighbor named Hermon A. MacNeil.
The MacNeil’s built their Studio on the northern shore of College Point in 1902. The community was an easily defined peninsula on the East River, Burrough of Queens, in New York City.
Listening and hearing tales of the generations of residents before him, Jim’s “young boy fascination” was stirred by conversations of local people and lore. As an adult he chose to capture those sagas into words. Jim distilled his writings with research and collaboration about his College Point roots and history.
Two recurring of names woven through many stories were Hermon Atkins MacNeil and Carol (“Carrie”) Brooks MacNeil. Their involvement in the Village’s efforts supporting the Great War “piqued” an additional interest in the couples service. Now in his sixth volume, Haas puts this pair (the husband-wife sculptor team) in focus at center stage.
The 20 plus chapters form a chronology of the life and works of Hermon and Carrie MacNeil. The research is thorough and thoughtful. He is a heart-felt historian of his home town roots. His story telling is as encompassing as their global accomplishments.
Cecelia MacNeil, Hermon’s widow credited the following statement to Adolph Block:
“… all that Hermon Atkins MacNeil lacks to acquire fame is a good biographer.”
Adolph Block should know. He too was a sculptor ~ (more) and a student of MacNeil
All that Hermon MacNeil lacked
was a Good Biographer
But NOW in 2022
Hermon Atkins MacNeil’s BIOGRAPHY
is Published
And James E. Haas is his “Good Biographer”
Postscript by Webmaster:
HermonAtkinsMacNeil.com/ [ HAM ]
Until 2010 the works of Hermon MacNeil had no central “Gathering Point” in the virtual world of digitized communication.
This website was created as a convergence for searches about
Hermon MacNeil.
Since 2010 this website has cornered the market on
Color images and vignettes of the
LIVES AND WORKS of Hermon and Carol MacNeil.
https://hermonatkinsmacneil.com/ has added to their FAME
BUT
No one CHRONOLOGICAL STORY of the MacNeils is presented here.
NOW
THIS VOLUME BY JAMES HAAS HAS CREATED A
Thorough, Painstaking, Detailed, Systematic, Telling
that this American Sculptor has needed
for the last 75 years.
SO ENJOY !
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“… all that Hermon Atkins MacNeil lacks to acquire fame is a good biographer.”
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