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with Gaetano Cecere, sculptor, Professor, National Academician, Natl. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution., U.S. Congressional building,
many govt. commissions (FDR arts program), Beaux-Arts Institute of Design

Also instrumental in the establishment were great ladies, Tilly Brice (correct spelling Tilly Brice, by RC) and Georgie Kiger, who later gave a contribution award.
As witness to the five original founders, activities of my grand Aunt Ada and grand Uncle Gaetano Cecere, I was educated by this group, known as "Pike County Arts and Crafts"  exhibition or art show.

The artists who worked with Ada R. Cecere, oil painter and muralist, to establish a fine art area were also excellent artists "oil painters in the historical processes of that term".

Harriet Cotteril and Matilda Grech were very active and worked closely with the Cecere's to create a refinement in the exhibition.
The Crafts area was also excellent in the talents shown by many PA, NJ and NY crafts people.

Please respect the great work they did, late into the nights to firmly install and hang the artworks for many years.

Ada Cecere and Guy were married and lived in lower Manhattan as well as their 1938 country home and studio,

(paid for by Pres. A. Lincoln commissioned monumental statue).

Gaetano Cecere and Ada were born in New York City. Guy studied art at the National Academy of Art in New York and at the Beaux-Arts Institute in Paris.

He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1920, and became a Fellow of Sculpture at the American Academy in Rome from 1920-22.

Ada also studied in Europe where they met,

Afterwards Cecere's returned home to New York city. He became a professor at Cooper Union. & was subsequently named Director of the Department of Sculpture.[2]

In 1938 Cecere was named National Academician. He belonged to the National Academy of Design, the National Sculpture Society, and the New York Architectural League.[3]

Cecere's work reflected his interest in the beauty and simplicity of early Greek art.

In addition to the Abraham Lincoln, he designed the U.S. Army's Soldier Medal for Valor for the United States Mint,

as well as the Art in Trade Club Medal or medallion, for the School of Art League of New York,


 * U.S. Capitol, United States House of Representatives Chambers and rotunda, bas relief portraits of famous lawmakers Alphonso X, "the Wise", George Mason, Simon de Montfort and Justinian, 1949-50[4]

the John F. Stevens Monument in Montana, and the Columbia Broadcasting Guest Award Medal.[4]

This is added as further refinement of the standing for the group. Also I put the Exhibition signs up for all to be invited and welcomed with dignity in the center of Milford by Robert C.

Gaetano Cecere

Smithsonian American Art Museum

National Academy of Design

Brooklyn Museum