American sculptor Charles Hafner created his best known bronze work in 1928 at the Carl Schurz Park in New York, Peter Pan. Other works were a terra cotta pediment for New York’s Rivoli Theater and a marble fountain entitled The Dance for the Albee Theater in Brooklyn. He studied in Boston, New York and Paris at the École des Beaux Arts, and also worked as a painting teacher at the New York Evening School of Industrial Art. He was also a member of numerous artists’ associations. Hafner created figurative sculptures, allegorical motifs, portraits busts, medallions, plaques, and building-related works. His paintings emphasized still lifes and botanical motifs. In 1918, during World War I, Hafner served as a ship camouflage artist for the Navy.
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