Haig Patigian

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Haig Patigian was an Armenian-American sculptor born on January 22, 1876 in the city of Van, Armenia and died on September 19, 1950 in San Francisco, California. His parents were teachers at the American Mission School in Armenia. He was largely self-taught as a sculptor.

Patigian spent most of his career in San Francisco, California and most of his works are located in California. The Oakland Museum in Oakland, California, includes a large number of his works in its collection.

Selected public works

McKinley statue in Arcata, California, 1906
General John Pershing, San Francisco, California, 1921
Abraham Lincoln, San Francisco, California, 1928
Thomas Starr King, National Statuary Hall Collection, The Capitol, Washington D.C.,
Volunteer Firemen Memorial, San francisco, California, 1933

Architectural sculpture

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, tympanum,
San Francisco Savings Union Bank building, pediment, San Francisco, California, 1911
Palace of Fine Art & the Machinery Palace, (now destroyed) Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915
Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, (now the Ritz Carlton Hotel) pediment, San Francisco, California, 1920
Navigation, Aviation, and Industry, Richfield Oil Building, Los Angles, California Allegorical figures, 1928

when the building was demolished in 1968 the figures were moved to in front of the Student Health Services Building at the University of California in Santa Barbara

Department of Commerce Building, pediment, Washington D.C., 1934

References

Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture in America, unpublished manuscript
National Sculpture Society, Contemporary American Sculpture 1929, National Sculpture Society, New York, NY 1929
Opitz, Glenn B , Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968

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