Artist
Centurion, 1907–1920
Born 1 September 1863 in Washington, District of Columbia
Died 22 November 1920 in New York (Queens), New York
Buried Green Ridge Cemetery
, Kenosha, Wisconsin
Proposed by Elihu Vedder and Francis Davis Millet
Elected 6 April 1907 at age forty-three
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
George W. Breck was for nearly half a dozen years director of the American Academy of Fine Arts at Rome and the first winner of the Lazarus scholarship for study of mural painting at that Academy. Mural painting was the particular branch of art in which he exercised his talent and knowledge, and in which he achieved his success by such work as the mosaics of the Evangelists on the façade of the St. Paul Protestant Episcopal Church in Rome, the decoration (representing the Nativity) of the whole west wall in its interior, the mural paintings of the Whitelaw Reid home in New York City, of the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, Albany, and of the Watertown public library. But his study in the associated fields of sculpture, architecture, and decoration was constant, and it made him a man much sought after for artistic coöperation in those fields also.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1921 Century Association Yearbook
