Bonnie (Kramer) MacLeary - Artist Info

About Bonnie (Kramer) MacLeary

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Bonnie McLeary
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    Born in San Antonio, Texas, Bonnie MacLeary was the first Texas sculptor to have work in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. MacLeary studied at the Chase School, the Art Students League, the Academie Julian in Paris, and with James Earle Fraser, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and F. Luis Mora.

    MacLeary opened a studio in New York City in 1921.

    She exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the National Arts Club, and her work was included in "One Hundred Years of Sculpture in Texas" (1989).

    In the 1920s, the Gorham Company in New York marketed a group of small MacLeary bronzes, including Ouch!, Goosie Goosie, Aurora, Ariadne, Goss...

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