Arts & Culture
John Rogers Studio in New Canaan, Connecticut, preserves the working space of John Rogers, a late nineteenth-century American sculptor known as “the people’s sculptor.” Built in 1878 in a Gothic-Victorian style, it was where Rogers created his widely popular plaster figural groups depicting ordinary American life. By choosing inexpensive plaster instead of bronze or marble, he made art affordable for a broad public, and his works became common in Victorian homes. Over a thirty-three-year career, he designed eighty-six groups and produced nearly eighty thousand copies. The studio remains a rare surviving link to his influence on American cultural life.
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New Canaan, Connecticut · United States
