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James Salvator John Novelli (October 18, 1885 - May 31, 1940) was an Italian American sculptor known for his funeral and war memorials.[1]

Biography

Novelli was born in 1885 in Sulmona, a province of Aquila, Italy. His family settled in lower Manhattan in New York and he was raised in a tenement house on Mulberry Street in the Five Points, which became the heart of Little Italy.[2]

In 1903, Novelli returned to Italy to study and graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 1908.[2] As student he earned an honorable mention for his work submitted to the 1906 International Exposition in Paris.[2][3] He participated in the New York competition about "conceptions of war" in 1915.[4]

He later lived in Chelsea in Manhattan and received numerous commissions. After marrying he lived in Queens, New York, with his wife, Lillian, and son.[2]

His career foundering during the Depression, he worked city's monument crew. He committed suicide in 1940.[2][5]

Works

• America Triumphant (1922), Pershing Field, Jersey City Heights, Jersey City[6][7]
• Clayton Point World War I Monument (1928) Clason Point, Bronx[8][9]
• Memorial door DeSalvio mausoleum (1938), Calvary Cemetery, Queens[10]
• Memorial door LaGioia mausoleum (1923), Calvary Cemetery, Queens[11]
• Memorial door Latorraca mausoleum (1938), Calvary Cemetery, Queens[12]
• Rockingham War Memorial (1927-1928), Bellows Falls, Vermont
• Saratoga Monument (1920) Saratoga Park, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn[5][13][14]
• The Spirit of Flight (1928), Fort Wayne, Indiana[15]
• Victory Memorial Fountain (1929), William F. Moore Park, Corona, Queens (fountain removed, tablet remains)[16][17]
• Winfield War Memorial and Victorious America. (1926) Winfield Plaza, Woodside, Queens[18][19][20]
• Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York), memorials

References

External links

• Testimony by Novelli

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