George William Hill (sculptor)

George William Hill
George William Hill (circa 1920)
Born	1862 Shipton, Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada
Died	1934
Nationality	Canadian
Known for	sculptor

George William Hill (1862 in Shipton, Eastern Townships, Quebec – 1934) was a Canadian sculptor. He was known as one of Canada's foremost sculptor during the first half of the 20th century, because of the numerous public memorials he made.^[1] He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.^[2] He traveled to Paris in 1889 to study at the École nationale des beaux-arts and at the Académie Julian, and returned to Montreal in 1984 to open his workshop and begin producing public memorials.^[3]

Works

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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s George Brown (1913) erected at Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s D'Arcy McGee (1913) erected at Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s Sherbrooke War Memorial (1926) commemorating the First World War at King Street in Sherbrooke, Quebec Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s Sherbrooke War Memorial(1926) commemorating the First World War at King Street in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s Boer War Memorial (Montreal) (1907) in Square Dorchester,
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s Lion of Belfort (Montreal) in Square Dorchester, Montreal, Quebec

• War Memorial, Harbord Collegiate School,286 Harbord St., Toronto, Ontario
• War Memorial, Pictou, Nova Scotia
• War Memorial, Westmount, Montreal, Quebec
• War Memorial, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Monument to Sir George-Étienne Cartier in front of Mount Royal during winter in Montreal (1919)

Boer War Monument, George William Hill, Victoria Park, London, Ontario

References

1. Rosalind M. Pepall. "The Architecture of Edward & W.S. Maxwell: Craftsmen and Decorative Artists". http://cac.mcgill.ca/maxwells/. Retrieved August 22, 2010. External link in |work= (help)
2. "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Retrieved September 11, 2013.
3. "HILL, George William (1862–1934)". Dictionnaire historique de la sculpture québécoise au XXe siècle. Retrieved 2016-08-08.