Charles Cary Rumsey

Sculpture of a Polo Player Harrison Tweed by Charles Rumsey

1912

CHARLES CARY RUMSEY, born in Buffalo, NY in 1879. His interest in sculpture appeared and was encouraged at an early age as he was considered a prodigy his parent sent him to Paris to study art in 1893. Graduated Harvard in 1902, Rumsey returned to Paris where he took a studio in the Latin Quarter and enrolled and the Julian and Colarossi Academies. One professor, Emmanuel Fremiet, a specialist in equestrian statuary, and his training was to have a decisive influence on the young Rumsey. Rumsey was a superb rider and a world-class polo player. His large monuments remain in locations around the world. Beaux Arts Museum Paris France Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York Nassau County Museum of Art, Nassau Co.NY Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey Whitney Museum of Art, NY Pan American Exposition Buffalo 1901 National Sculpture Society Exhibition under the Auspices of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore, Fifth Regiment Armory Baltimore, 1908 Architectural League of NY 24th Exhibition 1909 Architectural League of NY 27th Exhibition 1912 MacBeth Galleries NY “A Collection of Small Bronzes by American Sculptors” 1912 1913 Armory Show, NY, Art Institute of Chicago 1913 National Sculpture Society 1913 Kingore Gallery Exhibition NY 1913 Architectural league of NY 28th Exhibition Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo NY “An exhibition of works by Buffalo Artists” 1914 Panama Pacific International exhibition, San Francisco, California 1915 Fine Arts Institute , Kansas City Missouri 1916 Sculptors Gallery, “Exhibition of sculptures by Charles Cary Rumsey” Art Association of Indianapolis Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 1918 American Painting and Sculpture, Pertaining to the War” Knoedlers, NY 1918-1919 Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1919 Art Institute of Chicago 1920 Metropolitan Museum of Art NY, 1921 Carnegie Institute Exhibition Architectural league of NY 28th Annual Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 1923 National Sculpture Society, NY 1923 Exposition Retrospective de L’ourvre “Charles Cary Rumsey” Societe’ Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1927 Brooklyn Museum NY 1930 Whitney Museum of Art NY 1932 American Sculpture and Paintings, Museum of Modern Art NY 1932-1933 Century of Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933 The Centennial Exhibition, Department of Fine Arts Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, 1936 Three Centuries of American Art, Organized by the Museum of Modern Art NY Muse’ du Jeu de Paume, Paris 1938 Sport in Art, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo NY 1948 A Survey of American Sculpture, late 18th century to 1962, Newark Museum of Art New Jersey. 1962 National Art Museum of Sport Premier Exhibition, Madison Square Garden Center, NY 1968 Horse in America, Monmouth Museum, Red Bank New Jersey 1970 American Art in the Newark Museum, 1981 Dog Museum of America, NY 1983 The Shock of Modernism in America Nassau County Museum of Art 1984 Sporting Art, Anderson Galleries, NY 1986 Sporting Art, Anderson Galleries NY, 1988 Polo in America, American Cup Polo Tournament, Meadowbrook Polo Club NY