Truman Howe Bartlett

Truman Howe Bartlett; also known as T. H. Bartlett (1835 – 1922), American sculptor, group lot of six authentic autographed letters (ALS). Dates range from 1894 - 1898. Letters are addressed to Herbert Fay, custodian of Lincoln's Tomb with references to Lincoln photographs within the letters.

Bartlett was born in Dorset, Vermont, studied under Robert Eberhard Launitz in New York City and subsequently in Paris, Rome, and Perugia. He was active in New Haven, Waterbury, and Hartford, Connecticut, and in New York City. For 22 years he was an instructor in MIT's architecture department, and also operated a free art school for poor children. He died in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bartlett's best known works include 'The Wounded Drummer Boy of Shiloh,' and the 'Horace Wells Monument' (1875) in Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut. Both bronzes were exhibited in Paris. According to Marquis, Bartlett was the first American sculptor to make a figure in terra cotta.

Overall in very good condition.