William Ernst Ehrich, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam Ernst Ehrich
New York sculptor
Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1897
Date of Death: 10-Aug-1960
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About William Ernst Ehrich
- William Ernst Ehrich (12 July 1897 – 10 August 1960) was a successful Western New York sculptor, ceramicist, public monument artist, educator, and WPA supervisor in Buffalo (see the Federal Art Project).
- His FAP assignments included decorative art work at the Buffalo Zoo and Buffalo City Hall.
- He also taught at the WPA school in Buffalo, NY.
- An exhibiting and award-winning regional artist, Ehrich later moved to Rochester to teach sculpture at the Memorial Art Gallery and the University of Rochester until his death in 1960.Ehrich was noted by Harold Olmsted in the Western New York Albright-Knox Gallery’s survey of Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, for “attain[ing] a modest national reputation for his figurative sculpture…”.
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