Edith Woodman Burroughs
Edith Woodman Burroughs (born 1871, Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York, died Flushing, Long Island, 1916). American sculptor. Woodman began studying with master artists art at the early age of 15, working with Kenyon Cox and Augustus Saint Gaudens at the Art Students League. By the age of 18 she was supporting herself by designing objects for churches as well as for the Tiffany and Company.[1]
In 1893 she married artist and future curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She spent the next two years in Paris where she studied with Jean-Antoine Injalbert and Luc-Olivier Merson.[2] In 1907 she won the Shaw Memorial Prize front the National Academy of Design for a work Circe that was subsequently shown at a major exhibit in Baltimore [3]
In 1909 she returned to Paris where she "came under the influence of Maillol", after which her work reflected his simpler means of expression. [4]
Her Fountain of Youth figure, showing the sweet tenderness, a maidenly lovliness [5] won a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
Burroughs exhibited a bronze bust, Portrait of John Bigelow at the 1913 Armory Show in New York.[6]
She died unexpectedly at the age of 45 in 1916.
Her work
Her work can be found in numerous museums and galleries including:
- Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
- R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana
- Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
- Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument, San Simeon, California
- Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
See also
References
- ^ Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston 1990 pp. 236-238
- ^ Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968 p. 261
- ^ Catalogue of the Exhibition of the National Sculpture Society Under the Auspices of the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore. Fifth Regiment Armory, April 4th To April 25th Inclusive, Nineteen Eight
- ^ Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1943 p. 279
- ^ Chaney, Sheldon, Art Lover's Guide to the Exposition: Explanation of the Architecture Sculpture & Mural Paintings with a Guide for Study in the Art Gallery, At the Sign of the Berkeley Oak, Berkeley, California 1915 p, 51
- ^ 1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition, 1963 Henry Street Settlement, NY 1963 p. 184
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