Image: Bell Statue in front of the Brantford Bell Telephone Building 0.98

Description: The Alexander Graham Bell statue in the front portico of the Brantford, Ontario, Bell Telephone of Canada Building. The portico and statue of Alexander Graham Bell are reminiscent of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., lending themselves to the Classical Style. Sculptor of Bell Statute was Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne, O.C., O.Ont., R.C.A., O.S.A., S.S.C., HON. C.P.A. (1912 – July 5, 1998), a Canadian painter and sculptor. He was born in Jamaica, British West Indies, and he painted over 400 portraits in his career (1928 - 1991) including those of Alexander Graham Bell, Claude Bissell, Bora Laskin, Pauline Mills McGibbon and John Diefenbaker. Horne attended the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1931-1934. He also studied with Dorothy Dick (British sculptor) in 1927 as well as with John Russell from 1934-1935. He was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and was its president from 1949-1951. He was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and the Sculptor’s Society of Canada.
Title: Bell Statue in front of the Brantford Bell Telephone Building 0.98
Credit: http://www3.brantford.ca/inventory.nsf (search for: Market Street, 86-100, Bell Telephone Building). Direct address: http://mail.brantford.ca/85256aaf0079789a/0/84d7b017236f337f85256a8b00586116/Photo_arch1/0.98?OpenElement
Author: City of Brantford, Ontario
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