Projects range from public monuments to sculptures in private collections. Specialties include portraits of historic figures, veterans’ and public safety memorials, animals and mascots, as well as work for the hotel and entertainment industries. Robert works with a worldwide clientele of communities, institutions, committees, architects, and museums. Communication with clients from design to dedication is the practice he stands behind.

2021 – Busts of historical figures: Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, and Eleanor Roosevelt, Groton School, Groton, MA

2020 – Statues of Jesuit saints, St. Mary’s Hall, Boston College, Boston, MA

2020 – Mary Wollstonecraft bust, Providence Athenaeum, Providence, RI

2020 – Busts of three football coaches, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

2020 – Charger Horse mascot sculpture, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT

2019 – Washington Kneeling in Prayer statue, American Village, Montevallo, AL

2019 – Beaver mascot sculpture, Babson College, Waltham, MA

2018 – Agent Orange Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Park, Billerica, MA

2018 – Alice Hamilton busts, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard University Medical School, Cambridge, MA, and Taylor University, Upland, IN

2018 – Coach De Felice statue, Bentley University, Waltham, MA

2017 – Carolyn Rafaelian bust, Belcourt of Newport, Newport, RI

2017 – Purple Heart Monument, Puerto Rican Veterans Memorial, Boston, MA

2017 – The Blue Point Box Turtle, Blue Point Nature Preserve, Blue Point, Brookhaven, NY

2017 – Saint Augustine Statue, Assumption College, Worcester, MA

2017 – Peabody Public Safety Memorial, Peabody, MA

2017 – Senior Class of 2016 Gift, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

2017 – Falcon mascot sculpture, Bentley University, Waltham, MA

2017 – Horace Mann Statue, Franklin, MA

2016 – Joseph Warren Sculpture inspired by the sculpture of Paul W. Bartlett, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, MA

2016 – Concord Academy Floor Medallion, Concord Academy, Concord, MA

2016 – Tribute to the Washburns, Museum of Science, Boston, MA

2016 – Roland Hayes Memorial Relief Plaque, Brookline, MA

2016 – Embattled Farmer statue, American Village, Montevallo, AL

2016 – Eagle sculptures, American Village, Montevallo, AL

2015 – Roberto Clemente Bust, Puerto Rican Veterans Memorial, Boston, MA

2015 – Gift of Life sculpture, New England Organ Bank, Waltham, MA

2015 – Bengal Tiger mascot sculpture, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN

2015 – Johnny Ro Memorial, Johnny Ro Veteran’s Memorial Park, Leominster, MA

2014 – Fighting Goat mascot sculpture, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

2014 – Blue Hen mascot sculpture, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

2014 – Liberty statue and Liberty & The Fallen statue, American Village, Montevallo, AL

2013 – Puerto Rican Veterans Memorial, Boston, MA

2013 – Animal sculptures, Tidal Stream at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, MA

2013 – Bobcat mascot sculptures, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT

2012 – Woburn Honor Roll Memorial, Woburn, MA

2012 – Special Olympics Monument, Massachusetts Special Olympics Headquarters, Marlboro, MA

2011 – Stupa Monument, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA

2011 – Poseidon Temple Ruins, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Lowell, MA

2011 – A Man and A Cat Named Yitz, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

2010 – Proud Goat mascot sculpture, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

2010 – Auburn Veterans Memorial, Auburn, MA

2009 – Arnold “Red” Auerbach Monumental Relief Portrait, TD Garden, Boston, MA

2009 – George M. Cohan Statue at his birthplace in Providence, RI      

2008 – Angelo Del Rossi Portrait, Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ

2008 – Brockton Firefighters Strand Theatre Fire Memorial, Brockton, MA

2008 – Paramaz Avedisian Statue, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

2007 – Rhode Island Irish Famine Memorial, Providence, RI

2007 – Massachusetts Fallen Firefighters Memorial, State House, Boston, MA

2007 – Central Massachusetts Korean War Memorial, Worcester, MA

2006 – Bronze plaques for the Athletic Hall of Fame, Fairfield University, CT

2006 – Kindness and Inclusiveness children’s sculpture, Canterbury School, Greensboro, NC

2005 – Donald McKay Heroic Bust, East Boston, MA

2005 – In Tribute to Boston Police Officers sculpture plaza, Boston Police Head Quarters

2004 – The Beginning of Wisdom– Dr. John Pingry Sculpture, Pingry School, NJ

2004 – Molly Stark Statue on the Molly Stark Trail, Wilmington, VT

2003 – Leopard mascot sculpture, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA

2003 – Reverend Henry Whitfield Statue, Whitfield Museum, CT

2003 – Police Memorial – DiNapoli Plaza, Holyoke, MA

2002 – South Boston World War II Memorial, Boston, MA

2002 – Clara Barton Portrait, Massachusetts State House

2002 – Catherine Filene Shouse Portrait, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA

2001 – Tufts University Dowling Hall Elephant, Medford, MA

2001 – Norwood Firefighters Memorial, Norwood, MA

2001 – George Cleeve Statue, Portland waterfront, ME

2001 – Dr. Edward P. Triangolo Statue, Co-Founder of Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI

2000 – Ted Williams Statue, Ted Williams Museum, FL

2000 – General John Stark Statue Replication, Bennington Battle Grounds, VT

2000 – Cape and Islands Korean War Memorial, Hyannis, MA

1999 – Sigmund Freud Statue, Clark University, Worcester, MA

1999 – Joe DiMaggio Portrait & Memorial at Yankee Stadium, NY

1999 – Benjamin Franklin Statue, Franklin, MA

1998 – Rhode Island Korean War Memorial, Providence, RI

1998 – Moe Gaebe Statue, Co-Founder of Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI

1998 – MIA/POW Eternal Flame Memorial, National Cemetery, Bourne, MA

1998 – Boston Irish Famine Memorial, Boston, MA

1997 – National Pony Express Monument replication, “This is the Place State Park”, Salt Lake City, Utah

1997 – Lawrence Teachers Monument, Lawrence, MA

1996 – Don Orione Portrait Statue for Madonna Queen National Shrine, East Boston, MA

1996 – Bronze relief sculptures at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Boston, MA

1995 – Bronze sculptures commemorating the Boston Police & Fire Departments, International Place Lobby, Boston, MA

1995 – Ted Williams Tunnel Heroic Portrait Relief of Ted Williams, Central Artery Tunnel entrances, Boston, MA

1994 – E. Virginia Williams Portrait Relief, Founder of the Boston Ballet, Boston, MA

1994 – George Washington Monumental Portrait, Washington Monument, Washington, DC             

1993 – Protectors of the American Family Monument, Norwood Town Common, Norwood, MA

1993 – Cy Young Monument, site of the first baseball World Series, Boston, MA

1992 – Monumental Eagle sculpture, Lansburgh Building, Washington, DC & St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH

1992 – Massachusetts Korean War Veterans Memorial, Charlestown Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA

1991 – Seasons sculptures, The Inn at Harvard, Cambridge, MA

1990 – “Mermaid” facade, Sand Castle Casino, Philippines

1990 – FAO Schwartz Teddy Bear, Boston and New York

1990 – Thomas Jefferson Monument, Pinelawn Memorial Park, Farmingdale, NY

Conservation of sculpture has included historic bronzes, bronze and stone monuments, as well as plaster, marble, wood, and terracotta sculpture. Projects range from a single object to entire museum collections. Robert Shure specializes in working in situ and at his studio on conserving and maintaining bronze, including replicating missing parts of existing sculptures or entire sculptures.

Conservation of Katharine Lane Weems estate sculpture collection, over 200 plaster, clay, and bronze sculptures, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Plaster Cast Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA

Plaster Cast Collection, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT

Firefighter’s Monument, bronze and stone, Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA

Historic Altar, stone ornament and sculpture, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Lowell, MA

Crucifixion Monument, marble, Archdiocese of Boston

Plaster Cast Collection, Rudolph Hall/Yale Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Ornamental Entryway, bronze, Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Restorations of stone monuments and ornamental bronze, and resin reproductions, Barney Mausoleum, Springfield, MA

Rex Jambrinus sculpture, zinc, private collection, Duxbury, MA

The Pagan by Charles Cary Rumsey, plaster, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Our Lady of Good Voyage sculpture, wood, Gloucester, MA

Lion, Unicorn, and Eagle sculptures, copper and bronze, Old State House, Boston, MA

The Parkman Memorial by Daniel Chester French, bronze, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA

Madonna sculpture conservation, wood, Madonna Queen of the Universe National Shrine, Boston, MA

The Faneuil Hall Grasshopper conservation and re-gilding, copper, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston, MA

The Milmore Memorial by Daniel Chester French, bronze and stone, Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA

Civil War Monument by Martin Milmore, bronze, Woburn, MA

Fountains, bronze and stone, The Sunken Garden, The Elms, Newport, RI

Colonel Laommi Baldwin Monument, bronze, Baldwin Green, Woburn, MA

Historic sculptures and fountain, bronze, Johnson Park, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

Original plaster cast of the Adams Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, Cornish, NH and Guggenheim Museum, NYC (on loan)

Antique reproduction of Michelangelo’s Moses, plaster, Worcester Court House, Worcester, MA

Lincoln Monument, bronze and stone, Lincoln Park, Lowell, MA

William Cardinal O’Connell Monument, bronze and stone, Lowell, MA

Hercules at Rest, lead, The Society of the Cincinnati’s Anderson House, Washington, DC

Soldiers and Sailors Monument, bronze, Town of Randolph, MA

Reliefs from “This is the Place” historic series of reliefs by Mahonri Young, plaster, Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton, CT

Stone relief sculptures on exterior of St. Mary’s Hall, Boston College, Boston, MA

Restoration of busts, plaster, bronze, and marble, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA

Art and Science by Bela Pratt, bronze, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

Bacchante and Infant Faun by Frederick William MacMonnies, bronze, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

Conservation of bronze doors on A. Piatt Andrew Bridge over Annisquam River Gloucester, MA

Amesbury Doughboy Memorial, bronze, Amesbury, MA

Choate Memorial Statue by John Massey Rhind, bronze and granite, Salem, MA

Bronze pry bar replacement for The Worker by Elliot and Ivan Schwartz Mack Plaza, Lowell Heritage State Park, Lowell, MA

World War I Memorial, granite with bronze letters, Belmont, MA

Civil War Monument, bronze and granite, Rock Ridge Cemetery, Sharon, MA

Isaac Prouty Park Monument, bronze and granite, Spencer, MA

Kona Fountain by Richard Gerry Cook, bronze, Town of Center Harbor, NH

Lemnian Athena sculpture, plaster, Wheaton College, Norton, MA

Restoration and resin reproduction of Iwo Jima Memorial model, plaster, Naval Academy Preparatory School, Newport, RI

Deborah Sampson by Lu Stubbs, bronze, Sharon Town Library, Sharon, MA

Bronze plaques, Ecumenical Plaza, Lowell, MA

Bronze plaques, Needham, MA

Reliefs on Town Pump Fountain, bronze, Salem, MA

Plaster reliefs and sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, Cornish, NH

Statue of Liberty, copper, Fall River, MA

Rooster weathervane, copper, Hopkinton Public Library, Hopkinton, MA

Menotomy Indian Hunter by Cyrus Dallin, bronze,Winfield Robbins Memorial Garden, Arlington, MA

Robbins Memorial Flagstaff by Cyrus Dallin, bronze and granite, Arlington Town Hall, Arlington, MA

Nathaniel Hawthorne Statue by Bela Lyon Pratt, bronze and granite, Salem, MA

Uncle Sam Memorial Statue by Theodore Cotillo Barbarossa, bronze and stone, Arlington, MA

Boston College Eagle, bronze, Boston College, Boston, MA

Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Monument, bronze and granite, Capron Park, Attleboro, MA

Two sculptures by William Zorach, bronze, Private collection, VT

Five antique busts, plaster, Providence Athenaeum, Providence, RI

Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, bronze, Boston Common, Boston, MA

Amor Caritas by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, bronze, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, Cornish, NH

John Harvard Statue by Daniel Chester French, bronze, Harvard Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

The Worker by Elliot and Ivan Schwartz, bronze and granite, Mack Plaza, Lowell Heritage State Park, Lowell, MA

Homage to Women by Mico Kaufman, bronze and stone, Market Mills Park, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, MA

Agapetime by Dimitri Hadzi, bronze and granite, Lower Locks, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, MA

Stele for the Merrimack by Peter Gourfain, bronze and granite, Suffolk Mill Trolley Stop, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, MA

Rogers Groups sculptures by John Rogers, plaster, Brooks Free Library, Harwich, MA

Sculptures, busts, and reliefs, plaster, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA

U.S.S. Kearsarge Memorial, steel, bronze, and granite, Marine Park, Boston, MA

Many notable bronze, wood, terracotta, and stone sculptures have been reproduced or replicated to be used in public or private collections. The U.S. Department of the Interior has used Robert Shure’s expertise in molding and bronze casting to supervise and ensure the quality of historic reproductions placed at National Park Service sites.

Bronze reproductions of Twin Rhinoceroses by Katharine Lane Weems, Bronx Zoo, the Bronx, New York City, NY

Bronze reproduction of The Lincoln Memorial model by Daniel Chester French, Private collection

Plaster reproduction of The Minuteman by Daniel Chester French, Concord, MA

Bronze reproduction of The Scout by Cyrus Dallin, Textron Inc., Providence, RI

Miniature replica and bronze reproductions of Appeal to the Great Spirit by Cyrus Dallin, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Restorations of stone monuments and ornamental bronze, and resin reproductions, Barney Mausoleum, Springfield, MA

Plaster reproduction of bust of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Daniel Chester French, Private collection

Bronze reproductions of busts of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Marquis de Lafayette, and Thomas Jefferson by Jean-Antoine Houdon, Private and public collections

Bronze reproductions of the George Washington Monument by Jean-Antoine Houdon, The Washington Monument, Washington, DC, The Society of the Cincinnati’s Anderson House, Washington, DC, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, VA, and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT

Bronze reproduction of bust of Abraham Lincoln by Max Bachmann, Private collection

Bronze reproduction of Bacchante and Infant Faun by Frederick William MacMonnies, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

Bronze reproduction of The Liberty Bell, American Village, Montevallo, AL

Molds and supervision of bronze casting of Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, Cornish, NH

Resin reproductions of Roman Caesar busts, The Trustees of Reservations’ Great House at Castle Hill, Ipswich, MA

Resin reproduction of Rampant Colt for the dome of the Colt Armory, Colt Armory, Hartford, CT

Plaster reproduction of sculpture of James Madison, James Madison’s Montpelier, Montpelier Station, VA

Resin reproductions of architectural elements and side entryway, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA

Resin reproduction of Simon Willard Clock, Old State House, Boston, MA

Resin reproduction of Massachusetts Hall Clock, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Bronze reproduction of the Boston College eagle sculpture, Boston College, Boston, MA

Resin reproduction of Arhat Buddha with Tiger Cub from the Sung Dynasty, The Rockefeller Collection

Bronze replication of the National Pony Express Monument by Avard Fairbanks, This is the Place Heritage Park, Salt Lake City, UT & the Trail, Casper, WY

Resin reproductions of Union Station towers, Union Station, Worcester, MA

Resin reproduction of ancient Mayan stela: Copan Stela A, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Resin reproduction of Custom House Eagle, Custom House, Salem, MA

Resin reproductions of garden sculptures, The Preservation Society of Newport County’s Newport Mansions, Newport, RI

Recreation and resin reproduction of ancient Winged Victory of Samothrace sculpture, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House Complex, Buffalo, NY

Resin reproductions of eight small bronze figures by Mahonri Young, Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton, CT

Resin reproductions of ancient Mayan stelae and monuments: Quirigua Stela C, Quirigua Stela D, and Quirigua Zoomorph B, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Resin and wooden recreations of garden sculptures, fountains, and gondola poles, The Trustees of Reservations’ Naumkeag, Stockbridge, MA

Recreation and bronze reproductions of Rhode Island State Seal Relief, Roger Williams Landing Relief, and Roger Williams Quotation Plaque, Roger Williams Landing Monument, Providence, RI

Plaster reproductions of busts of Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Marquis de Lafayette, and Napoleon Bonaparte, The Trustees of Reservations’ Great House at Castle Hill, Ipswich, MA

Restoration and resin reproduction of Iwo Jima Memorial plaster model, Naval Academy Preparatory School, Newport, RI

Recreation and reproduction of John J. Round bronze portrait plaque, John J. Round Park, Wakefield, MA

Recreation and plaster reproduction of bust of Frederick Douglass by Johnson Mundy in the collection of the University of Rochester (NY), Providence Athenaeum, Providence, RI

Plaster reproduction of bust of Louisa May Alcott by Walton Ricketson in the collection of the Concord Free Public Library Corporation (MA), Providence Athenaeum, Providence, RI

Recreation and reproduction of John T. Moynihan bronze portrait plaque by Emilius Ciampa, Moynihan Memorial Play Center, Boston, MA

Recreation and reproduction of U.S.S. Kearsarge Memorial plaque, Marine Park, Boston, MA