{{Short description|American sculptor (1939–2023)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2012}} {{Infobox person | name = George Greenamyer | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = George Mossman Greenamyer | birth_date = July 13, 1939 | birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|04|26|1939|07|13}} | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Sculptor | spouse = Beverly Burbank<ref>https://www.patriotledger.com/story/lifestyle/2024/07/30/marshfield-ma-duxbury-brockton-george-greenamyer-sculpture-provincetown-massart-public-art/74469563007/</ref> }}

'''George Mossman Greenamyer''' (July 13, 1939<ref>{{cite web |url=http://act.mit.edu/cavs/person/KuSTdtevcHYwcJtGmAEUdD |title=George Greenamyer |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |accessdate=July 24, 2023}}</ref> – April 26, 2023)<ref name=LSP>{{cite web |url=http://www.laumeiersculpturepark.org/node/116 |title=George Greenamyer (American, born 1939) |publisher=Laumeier Sculpture Park |archivedate=November 25, 2010 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125033603/http://laumeiersculpturepark.org/node/116 |accessdate=September 9, 2012 |df=mdy }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.macdonaldfuneralhome.com/obituary/george-greenamyer |title=George Mossman Greenamyer |publisher=Macdonald Funeral Home |accessdate=July 24, 2023}}</ref> was an American sculptor.

He received a BFA in 1963 from the Philadelphia College of Art and an MFA in 1969 from the University of Kansas. He was a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art for more than thirty years.<ref name=LSP />

His 1983 work includes making use of two turbines from the Philo Power Plant and Twin Branch Power Plant as sculptures. The two turbines were mounted onto granite piers were placed in a plaza at the AEP Building in Columbus, Ohio.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/285238896|title=Historic Philo Generating Unit 6 Becomes Part Of AEP Sculpture Display|newspaper=The Times Recorder|date=October 9, 1983|page=3-A|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=December 28, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Turbines: Twin Branch Unit #4 & Philo Unit #6, (sculpture) |url=https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1545N6996D78H.3667&profile=ariall&uri=full=3100001~!315035~!0#focus |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |accessdate=December 28, 2018}}</ref>

thumb|right|260px|''Heritage Schooner for Debra Lakin, September 30, 1998'' (1998) From 1988 to 1991, Greenamyer staged an annual event at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri called "Fire and Ice", in which he fashioned a massive ice sculpture that was then set ablaze over a bonfire. The event suffered several weather-related problems, however. In its first two years, unexpectedly cold weather kept the sculptures from melting properly for the crowd; in 1990 and 1991, unexpectedly warm weather caused the sculptures to melt before the actual event.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ib8fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=StgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4315,6003546&dq=george+greenamyer+sculptor&hl=en |work=The Southeast Missourian |date=December 15, 1991 |title=Warm weather chills organizers at Fire and Ice Festival |agency=Associated Press |accessdate=September 9, 2012}}</ref> Laumeier Sculpture Park later commissioned a piece from Greenamyer in memory of its Marketing Director, Debra Lakin: ''Heritage Schooner for Debra Lakin, September 30, 1998''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://laumeiersculpturepark.org/artwork/heritage-schooner-debra-lakin-september-30-1998 |title=George Greenamyer, Heritage Schooner for Debra Lakin, September 30, 1998 |publisher=Laumeier Sculpture Park |archivedate=December 29, 2011 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229014313/http://laumeiersculpturepark.org/artwork/heritage-schooner-debra-lakin-september-30-1998 |accessdate=September 9, 2012 |df=mdy }}</ref>

His sculpture ''Milwaukee'' was installed outside the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Golda Meir Library in 1989. It depicts agricultural and urban scenes from Milwaukee's history.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?view=&dsort=&date.slider=&q=74020073| title=Milwaukee, (sculpture)| publisher=SIRIS| accessdate=August 2, 2011| archive-date=March 27, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327081354/http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?view=&dsort=&date.slider=&q=74020073| url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1991, University of Oregon athletic director Bill Byrne ordered a worker to cut down and remove a newly installed Greenamyer sculpture with a blowtorch. Byrne stated that he had found it "not in character with the rest of the front of the building". Greenamyer himself came to the scene, threatening to chain himself to the $54,000 sculpture to prevent its destruction. After mediation by UO president Myles Brand, it was agreed that the damage already done to the sculpture would be repaired, and it would be reinstalled at another location on campus.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xI5TAAAAIBAJ&sjid=loYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1442,6584702&dq=george+greenamyer+sculptor&hl=en |title=Oregon A.D. orders sculpture 'Byrned' |date=August 16, 1991 |work=The Bulletin |agency=Associated Press|accessdate=September 9, 2012}}</ref>

== Public Installations == * ''Mass Art Vehicle'', 1970, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln, Massachusetts)<ref>https://thetrustees.org/content/mass-art-vehicle/</ref> * ''Five Shaker Houses'', 1979, Art Complex Museum (Duxbury, Massachusetts)<ref>https://artcomplex.org/collections/sculpture_greenamyer_fiveshakerhouses/</ref> * ''East Cambridge—1852'', 1988, Cambridge Arts Council (Cambridge, Massachusetts) <ref>https://www.si.edu/object/east-cambridge-1852-sculpture:siris_ari_340540</ref> * ''Start To Finish'', 1990, Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa)<ref>https://emuseum.its.iastate.edu/objects/6442/start-to-finish?ctx=772968fcebe6e3a4a40e4169d15774c9d6b1d0eb&idx=1</ref> * ''Heritage Schooner for Debra Lakin, September 30, 1998'', 1998, Laumeier Sculpture Park (Saint Louis, Missouri)<ref>https://www.laumeiersculpturepark.org/george-greenamyer</ref>

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