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THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1956. CHESTER BEACH, A SCULPTOR, 75 Prize-Winning Artist Dies-- Did Bust of Lewisohn and Designed Peace Medal Special to The New York Times. BREWSTER, N.Y., Aug, 7-- Chester Beach, sculptor, died yesterday in his summer home, Oldwalls, Star Ridge Road, after a long illness. He was 75 years old. For forty-five years, his studio and residence were at 207 East Seventeenth Street, New York. He was president of the National Sculpture Society in 1927-1928. In 1918, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was also an academician of the National Academy of Design. Mr. Beach was born in san Francisco. He studied sculpture under Verlet and Roland, in 1903-06 in Paris, where he won the gold medal of the Julian Academy in 1905. He established a studio here in 1907. In that year, he won the Barnett Prize for sculpture of the National Academy of Design. His three large sculptural groups, "Primitive, Medieval and Modern Progress," won a medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915. In 1939, he was represented by a fountain, "Riders of the Elements," at the New York World's Fair. Among his works in New York are a bronze bust of Adolph Lewisohn in the stadium Mr. Lewisohn gave to City College; at Barnard College, the bronze figure of a modern college girl in a torch race, called "The Spirit of the Barnard Creek Games," and a bronze figure, "Service," with marble relief figures, "Messages of Peace and War," in the American Telephone and Telegraph Building, 195 Broadway. Mr. Beach won the prize of the American Numismatic Society for his medal commemorating the Peace of Versailles. He also designed the Monroe Adams, Hawaiian, Lexington-Concord and City of Hudson half-dollar coins. the numismatic society awarded to him its Saltus Medal in 1946 for distinguished medallic work. The last work completed by Mr. Beach early in 1955, before his illness, was a plaque of Benjamin F. Fairless, since retired as president of the United States Steel Corporation. Mr. Beach is survived by his widow, Mrs. Eleanor Murdock Beach; three daughters, Mrs. Paul R. Fitchen of New York, Mrs. Vernon C. Porter of Putnam Valley and Mrs. John McLaury of Osprey, Fla. and four grandchildren.