Pompeo Coppini

Pompeo Coppini
Coppini in 1929
Born
Pompeo Luigo Coppini

(1870-05-19)19 May 1870
Moglia, Mantua, Italy
Died26 September 1957(1957-09-26) (aged 87)
Citizenship
  • Italy
  • United States (from 1902)
EducationAccademia dell'Arte del Disegno
Augusto Rivalta
Known forSculpture
Notable work Partial listing - Sculptures, except where noted
Italy
    • The King Humbert Tablet, Royal Museum, Monza
Mexico
    • Bust of President Porfirio Diaz
    • George Washington Monument
Kentucky
Michigan
    • 1925 John Ball and Children, Grand Rapids
New Jersey
    • Neptune Fountain, Orphan Asylum, Kearny
New York
    • 1900 William McKinley
    • 1930 Spirit of the Rotary
    • 1931 150th Anniversary Masonic Grand Lodge Plaque, Utica
    • 1934 Bust of Dr. John Robert Gregg
    • 1935 Woodrow Wilson
    • 1933 Memorial to Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge, Staten Island, New York
    • 1941 George B. Cortelyou
Texas
    • 1934 Texas Centennial Half Dollar
    • 1901 Texas Confederate Monument, Capitol Grounds
    • 1903 Victims of the Galveston Flood, UT campus
    • 1907 Terry's Texas Rangers, Capitol Grounds
    • 1910 Hood's Brigade, Capitol Grounds
    • 1912 Stephen F. Austin, Texas State Cemetery
    • 1915 Joanna Troutman-Designer of the Texas Flag, Texas State Cemetery
    • 1933 Littlefield Fountain and free-standing statues, UT campus:
    • Jefferson Davis
    • Robert E. Lee
    • James Hogg
    • Albert Sidney Johnston
    • John H. Reagan
    • Woodrow Wilson
    • 1955 George Washington, University of Texas
    • 1919 Charles H. Noyes, Courthouse lawn
    • 1912 George O'Brien Millard, Pipkin Park
    • 1922 Mr. and Mrs C.H. YOE
    • 1919 Lawrence Sullivan Ross, TAMU Campus
    • 1914 Queen of the Sea
    • 1936 Prospero Bernardi, Fair Park
    • 1904 Woodmen of the World, Lakeview Cemetery
    • 1910 Come and Take It!
    • 1911 Sam Houston Memorial, Oakwood Cemetery
    • 1911 James W. Throckmorton, McKinney Courthouse Lawn
    • 1911 John H. Reagan Memorial
    • 1903 Confederate Monument
    • 1926 Scottish Rite Cathedral doors
    • 1929 Enlightening of the Press, Entrance of the San Antonio Express Publishing Company
    • 1939 Spirit of Sacrifice (a.k.a. The Cenotaph), Alamo Plaza
    • 1946 Genius of Music (w Waldine Tauch), Brackenridge Park
    • 1953 Coppini Memorial Sunset Memorial Park (Coppini’s gravesite),
    • 1972 George Washington Brackenridge (sculpted by Coppini 1930s, cast by Waldine Tauch, bureaucratic red tape delayed installation until 1972)
    • Winn Family Gravesite, City Cemetery #1
    • 1919 Julius A. Wolters
    • 1905 Burleson Memorial, Baylor Campus
    • 1938 R.E.B. Baylor, Baylor Campus
SpouseElizabeth di Barbieri
ChildrenWaldine Tauch (foster daughter)
WebsiteCoppini Academy
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Pompeo Luigi Coppini (19 May 1870 26 September 1957) was an Italian and American sculptor. Although his works can be found in Italy, Mexico and a number of U.S. states, the majority of his work can be found in Texas. He is particularly famous for the Alamo Plaza work, Spirit of Sacrifice, a.k.a. The Alamo Cenotaph, as well as numerous statues honoring Texan figures, such as Lawrence Sullivan Ross, the fourth President of Texas A&M University.