The Sculptor

Robert Shure was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1948. He graduated from New York Institute of Technology as a Bachelor of Fine Arts major in 1970 and received a Master of Fine Arts for sculpture in 1973 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Upon graduation, he worked as an assistant at the traditional sculpture studio of Arcangelo Cascieri and Adio di Biccari.[1] In addition to sculpting the Rhode Island Irish Famine Memorial, Shure also created Rhode Island’s Korean War Memorial and the George M. Cohan Memorial on Wickenden Street in Providence.[2] Recalling his creation of the Rhode Island Famine Memorial, Shure thinks of himself as fortunate to be able to work on the memorial as he describes his passion for history and his parents’ families own immigration journeys.[3] Shure sculpted the Rhode Island Famine Memorial in clay and it was then casted in bronze.[4]

[1] “Robert Shure .” Robert Shure Sculptor, https://www.robertshuresculptor.com.

[2] Conley. “Rhode Island’s Famine Memorial: A Tribute to the Survivors.”

[3] Shure and Shure. From the Sculptor.

[4] “R. I. Irish Famine Memorial .”