Anthony "Tony" Paterson

Anthony "Tony" Paterson, known for his bronze sculpture, developed one of the largest university sculpture foundries in the U.S. at SUNY University at Buffalo, where he was a professor. He founded the Casting and Welding Institute in 1993. Among his accomplishments was creating bronze casts of three monumental friezes by renowned Buffalo-born sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey (1879-1922). Rumsey created the original friezes in polychromed concrete for Rice Stadium in Pelham Bay in the Bronx. They depicted ancient Greek gods and Olympic athletes. Plaster casts were created when the Stadium was torn down, then donated to the University where they were installed in the Clark Gym. After decades, Paterson removed and restored the plaster casts to enable their recreation in bronze, now permanently installed outside the university's Alumni Arena near the Performing Arts Center on the north campus.