LETTER (SANITIZED) FROM ROBERT HUTCHINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88G01332R000800830006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 8, 1986
• Content Type: LETTER

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National imaitELAmEjjj_
Academy of
Design
1083 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10028
[phone]
December 8, 1986
Mr. William J. Casey, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Attn: Mt. Jim Reid,
EA/DDAOCIA
Gentlemen:
It is a privilege for me to commend to you Mr. Robert A. Weinman,
Sculpter of Gross River Road, Bedford, New York, 10506.
You will be familiar with the extensive scope and quality of his
work as an artist of renown. The biographical sketch included
is additional confirmation.
Robert Weinman is an academician of the National Academy of Design
which is a certain indication of his high standing among his
fellow artists.
I have known and respected him for many years ard believe he
would be fully qualified to receive any commission which might
be awarded.
RH/s
enc.
Sincerely,
cs
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Robert Hutchins
President
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ROBERT A. WEINMAN
BIOGRAPHY
[phone]
SCULPTOR
STAT.
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Robert A. Weinman was born in New York City in 1915. Upon gradu-
ation from high school (1931) he entered the art schools of the National
Academy of Design, studying drawing and sculpture there for eight years -
the last six years as an evening student with days spent as apprentice in
the studio of his sculptor-father.
In 1939 he received his first commission - three tympana in
limestone for his parish church. He began exhibiting in national shows -
Pennsylvania and National Academies, National Arts Club. In 1942 enlisted
in Air Corps, AUS; honorably discharged in 1945. Resumed the practice of
sculpture and established -own studio in, Manhattan in 1948.
His work has covered a wide range.- both of subject matter and
in materials. From bronze doors for a university library; granite eagle
for the entrance of a Federal Reserve Bank; stone and wood figures for
the exteriors and interiors of religious buildings; memorial tablets such
as that at the United Statei Military Academy; to well over one hundred
medals commemorating outstanding persons and events in the worlds of com-
merce, sports, public affairs, and the professions.
He has been awarded an Honorable Mention,Sculpture,by the
Allied Artists of America (1946); the Mrs. Louis Bennett Irize of the Nat-
ional Sculpture Society (1952); the J. Sanford Saltus Award of the Amer-
ican Numismatic Society (1964); Sculptor of the Year Award by the American
Numismatic Association (1975). Hering Medal, Nat'l,. Sculpture Society (1985).
A Fellow of the National Sculpture Society (President 1973 thru
-76), an Academician of the National Academy of Design, he resides with
his wife in Bedford, New Yorkiwhere he continues the practice of sculpture.
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