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1872 St. Louis, Missouri - 1955 New York City. Known for: Female figure sculpture, statuettes, painting.
A sculptor known for her depictions of graceful, serene, female figures with gently sweeping garments, Bessie Vonnoh became one of the female assistant's to Lorado Taft with a group nicknamed the... Read full biography
A sculptor known for her depictions of graceful, serene, female figures with gently sweeping garments, Bessie Vonnoh became one of the female assistant's to Lorado Taft with a group nicknamed the "White Rabbits*." They assisted him with large-scale pieces at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair... Read full biography
A sculptor known for her depictions of graceful, serene, female figures with gently sweeping garments, Bessie Vonnoh became one of the female assistant's to Lorado Taft with a group nicknamed the "White Rabbits*." They assisted him with large-scale pieces at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair Exhibition*. Vonnoh was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved with her family to Chicago where at age twenty one, she enrolled in Taft's sculpture class at the Art Institute of Chicago*. At the World's Fair,... Read full biography
A sculptor known for her depictions of graceful, serene, female figures with gently sweeping garments, Bessie Vonnoh became one of the female assistant's to Lorado Taft with a group nicknamed the "White Rabbits*." They assisted him with large-scale pieces at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair Exhibition*. Vonnoh was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved with her family to Chicago where at age twenty one, she enrolled in Taft's sculpture class at the Art Institute of Chicago*. At the World's Fair, she was much influenced by the small bronze figures of Russian sculptor Paul Troubetzkoy, and after the Fair, she began doing her own small bronze figures, which became very popular. Encouraged by Taft, she went to Paris in 1895, and on her return,... Read full biography
A sculptor known for her depictions of graceful, serene, female figures with gently sweeping garments, Bessie Vonnoh became one of the female assistant's to Lorado Taft with a group nicknamed the "White Rabbits*." They assisted him with large-scale pieces at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair Exhibition*. Vonnoh was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved with her family to Chicago where at age twenty one, she enrolled in Taft's sculpture class at the Art Institute of Chicago*. At the World's Fair, she was much influenced by the small bronze figures of Russian sculptor Paul Troubetzkoy, and after the Fair, she began doing her own small bronze figures, which became very popular. Encouraged by Taft, she went to Paris in 1895, and on her return, sculpted her much sought after work, The Young Mother, which was exhibited in 1976 as part of the Whitney Muse... Read full biography
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Keywords (50)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Classical Realist
- •Neo Classical, Neo Classicism
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
- •Children, Child Figure, Genre, Portrait
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Old Lyme, Connecticut
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Russia
Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •National Arts Club, New York
- •National Sculpture Society
- •Society of American Artists, New York
Art Teacher
- •Lorado Taft
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Anna and Frank Hall Collection, Sheldon Gallery, Lincoln
- •Eagle's Nest Art Colony Collection
- •Louise and Alan Sellars Collection
- •US Capitol Building, Washington DC
Added Description
- •Female Figure and/or Portrait Specialty
- •Figure Specialty
- •Garden Sculpture
- •Illinois Women Artists Project, Listed
Artist Colony
- •Cornish Art Colony, New Hampshire
- •Eagle's Nest Art Colony
- •Grez-sur-Loing, France
- •Old Lyme Artist Colony
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Sculpture Society-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
- •Armory Show 1913, New York
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts