| John B. Weaver | ||
| Birth Date: March 28, 1920 |
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| Death Date: April 10, 2012 Artist Gallery |
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| John Barney Weaver was born in 1920 and was a sculptor from Anaconda, Montana. He is known for creating a statue of Charles Marion Russell at the National Statuary Hall Collection, and three busts of Chester W. Nimitz for the United States Navy.
Weaver trained under his father, John Bruce “Pop” Weaver, a painter and sculptor. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1946. He was a curator for the Montana Historical Society for five years. He worked as Natural History Sculptor for the Smithsonian Institution for six years. In 1966, he started working with the Alberta Provincial Museum prior to its opening in 1967. Weaver became a Canadian citizen in 1973.
Weaver died of a heart attack at the age of 92 at his home of many years in Silver Creek, BC.
Artist statement: "I was trained in my early years by my father, John Bruce Weaver, a painter, sculptor and teacher. This experience along with a later study with Albin Polasek and Emil Zettler, as well as work with scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have made me think of Art as a way of life, a profession which should serve people, not as an ivory retreat of self-fulfillment.”
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