PRATT, Bela Lyon, American sculptor: b. Norwich, Conn., 11 Dec. 1867; d. Boston, 19 May 1917. He studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts under Niemeyer and Wier, and at the Art Students League in New York under Augustus St. Gaudens, F. Edwin Elwell, William Chase and Kenyon Cox, working under St. Gaudens in his studio. Later he studied in Paris under Chapu and Falqui'dre and at the Rcole des Beaux Arts. He received two medals and two prizes while in Paris and in 1892 he returned to the United States. He has been instructor of modeling at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts since 1893. He has produced many works in sculpture, including statues, memorials, portrait busts, tablets, medallions and other works. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Sculptors Society. He was awarded a gold medal at the Panama Ex position in 1915. Among his works may be
mentioned two colossal groups on the Water Gate of the Peristyle at the Chicago Exposition: the Eliot medal for Harvard University and the Yale Bi-centennial medal; six seven-foot spandrel figures for the main entrance of the Library of Congress, as well as a 12-foot figure of (Philosophy> and a series of four medal lions, (The Seasons> there; recumbent figure of Dr. Coit, Saint Paul's Church, Concord, N. H., which received honorable mention at the Paris Salon in 1897; of a Young Girl,' second medal at the Buffalo Exposition in 1901; statues or Bishop Brooks, Gov. John Winthrop, Jr., General Stevenson and others; portrait busts of Gen. C. J. Paine, Bishop Hunt ington, Dr. Homans, Dr. Richard Hodgson; the Harvard Spanish War Memorial; statue of Nathan Hale, Yale Campus, etc. •