Known for her public sculptures, especially fountains with figures and allegorical titles such as Goose Girls, Song of the Sea, and Joy of Life. She also did cemetery urns and relief panels including... Read full biography
Known for her public sculptures, especially fountains with figures and allegorical titles such as Goose Girls, Song of the Sea, and Joy of Life. She also did cemetery urns and relief panels including nymph panels for a swimming pool. Mabel Conkling was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and during her... Read full biography
Known for her public sculptures, especially fountains with figures and allegorical titles such as Goose Girls, Song of the Sea, and Joy of Life. She also did cemetery urns and relief panels including nymph panels for a swimming pool. Mabel Conkling was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and during her career, married to sculptor Paul Conkling, lived primarily in New York City but spent the summers in Boothbay Harbor. She studied in Paris for ten years, including at the Academie Julian and Academy... Read full biography
Known for her public sculptures, especially fountains with figures and allegorical titles such as Goose Girls, Song of the Sea, and Joy of Life. She also did cemetery urns and relief panels including nymph panels for a swimming pool. Mabel Conkling was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and during her career, married to sculptor Paul Conkling, lived primarily in New York City but spent the summers in Boothbay Harbor. She studied in Paris for ten years, including at the Academie Julian and Academy Colarossi, and among her teachers were James McNeill Whister, Raphael Collin, Augustus St. Gaudens and Frederick MacMonnies, who was especially influential in her becoming a sculptor. She exhibited in the Paris Salon and in 1900 at the the Expo... Read full biography
Known for her public sculptures, especially fountains with figures and allegorical titles such as Goose Girls, Song of the Sea, and Joy of Life. She also did cemetery urns and relief panels including nymph panels for a swimming pool. Mabel Conkling was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and during her career, married to sculptor Paul Conkling, lived primarily in New York City but spent the summers in Boothbay Harbor. She studied in Paris for ten years, including at the Academie Julian and Academy Colarossi, and among her teachers were James McNeill Whister, Raphael Collin, Augustus St. Gaudens and Frederick MacMonnies, who was especially influential in her becoming a sculptor. She exhibited in the Paris Salon and in 1900 at the the Expo Universelle. Other exhibition venues were the St. Louis Expo of 1904; the National Academy of Design, 1... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (14)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions
1990
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
638 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists
1940
Ball, Charlotte (editor)
790 pages
Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art (Exhibition catalog)