FRANK GAYLORD ONLINE SCULPTURE STUDIO

Born March 9, 1925 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Frank Gaylord pursued a life in the arts since childhood. At the age of five he began carving figures, predominantly African predators, out of soap. In secondary school his love for drawing, painting, and sculpture manifested itself into the decision that he, one day, would be an artist. This dream was put on hold with the onset of World War II, where Frank served in the 17th Airborne and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Even while in the Army Frank managed to create sketches of his comrades. After being discharged, Frank attended Carnegie Tech for two years, then compled his schooling at Temple University's Tyler School of Fine Art, where he graduated in 1950. He came to Barre, Vermont in 1951 to carve granite. He was taken under the wing of Bruno Sarzanini, where, with Bruno as his mentor, Frank demonstrated his own style and rose to be one of Barre's most talented sculptors. In the span of his fruitful fifty-plus year career as an artist, Frank won commissions across North America. The most well-known coming in 1990 with the American Battle Monuments Commision selecting him to be the sculptor of the National Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. Other monuments created by Frank include the Firemans Memorial (Eugene, Ore.), Doctor Ashbel Smith (Baytown, Tex.), Policemen's Memorial (Jacksonville, Fla.), the Toledo Mudhens Monument (Toledo, Ohio), and the National Little League Monument (Williamsport, Penn.). He also has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, as well as the Vermont Council on the Arts Governor's Award in 2003.