Stanley Bleifeld

Stanley Bleifeld (August 28, 1924 – March 26, 2011) was an American sculptor. He lived between Weston, Connecticut, and Pietrasanta, Italy.

Early life Stanley Bleifeld was born on August 28, 1924, in Brooklyn in New York City, New York. After a trip to Rome in around 1959 or 1960, he gave up painting for sculpture.

Career Bleifeld received the following awards: Sculptor of the Year in Pietrasanta and the World, in 2004, the Henry Hering Memorial Medal of the National Sculpture Society, (he was president of the Society from 1991 to 1993), the Medal of Liberty from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Shikler Award from National Academy of Design, among others.

Bleifeld was a National Academician in Sculpture, and a member of the National Academy of Design, and helped set policy for that organization. The originals of his works The Lone Sailor and The Homecoming are two created for the Navy Memorial. Subsequently, a number of replicas deployed across the United States. On October 13, 2017, the occasion of the 242nd anniversary of the United States Navy, a replica of The Lone Sailor was dedicated in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

His work is in numerous private collections throughout the world.

Personal life and death In 1949, Bleifeld married Naomi Ruby. The couple had two daughters, Becky and Emily.

Bleifeld died on March 26, 2011, in Norwalk, Connecticut from a cerebral hemorrhage following a fall.