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1907 Enid Yandell was born October 6, 1869 in Louisville, Kentucky daughter of Dr. Lunsford Pitts and Louise (Elliston) Yandell. Enid's artistic talent surfaced at an early age. In 1887 she enrolled in the Cincinnati Academy of Art completing a four-year course of study by 1889. After graduation she toured Europe with mother and sisters studying statuary in town squares and museums. As a sculptor for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Enid worked alongside several dozen artists creating decoration for fairgrounds and its buildings, including the caryatids for the Women's Building. Yandell studied with Philip Martiny at the New York Art Students League and under Auguste Rodin and Frederick William MacMonnies in Paris. Maintaining studios in New York and Paris, she exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon beginning in 1895. Yandell is well known for her public statuary and fountains in Tennessee, Kentucky, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The plaster relief on exhibit is a half-size model for one of three bronze panels in the Major John W. Thomas Monument in Nashville, Tennessee. The largest collection of her work belongs to the Speed Art Museum. Later in life, Enid founded the Branstock School of Art in Massachusetts. Enid Yandell died June 13, 1934 in Boston. See also: Darst, Stephanie. The Sculpture of Enid Yandell.Louisville: JB Speed Art Museum, 1993. |
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