Chester Beach (American, 1881 - 1956)
Chester Beach, born in San Francisco, was an academic sculptor of the figure in both bronze and marble, and designed coins as well.
Beach studied in California at the California School of Mechanical Arts and the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academy Julian. He was a teacher of sculpture at the Richmond Hill Settlement House from 1910 to 1922, and in 1934, a drawing teacher at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design.
The Glint of the Sea, a bronze depicting a nude young woman with arms raised, is a classic example of Beach’s work. Along with Wood Nymph, a bronze of a female figure holding an oversized leaf - both sculptures demonstrate the streamlined forms popular with the art deco movement.