Sidney Biehler Waugh

Sidney Biehler Waugh completed a degree in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1923, prior to traveling to Rome to study sculpture at the Scuola delle Belle Arte. In 1929, he received the prestigious Prix de Rome scholarship and studied at the American Academy in Rome. During World War II, Waugh served as a Monuments Man in North Africa and Italy. His art has been featured in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Waugh’s work can also be found adorning buildings throughout Washington, D.C., and include a relief outside the Federal Trade Commission building. Half a block to the west of the FTC, his sculpture Guardianship stands at the Constitution Avenue entrance to the National Archives building. His Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain is located just to the east of the FTC, across from the National Gallery of Art.