biographie de Anna Coleman LADD (1878-1939)

Birth place: Bryn Mawr, PA

Death place: Santa Barbara, CA

Addresses: Beverly Farms, MA/Santa Barbara, CA

Profession: Sculptor, lecturer, teacher, writer

Studied: Paris; Rome; Rodin; C. Grafly.

Exhibited: AIC, 1907-16; NAD, 6 annuals, 1908-28; PAFA Ann., 1908-12, 1916-17, 1920-27; Paris Salon, 1913; P.-P. Expo., San Fran., 1915 (prize); Int. Expo., Phila., 1926; CPLH, 1929; GGE, 1939. Award: Chevalier Legion of Honor, France; Serbian Order of Saint Sava.

Member: NSS; Boston Gld. A.; Copley S.; San Diego AA; North Shore AA; Concord AA; AFA

Work: bronzes, RISD; Gardner Mus.; fountain, Public Gardens, Boston; memorials, Hamilton, Beverly Farms, Manchester Lib., Widener Lib., Harvard, Brookline, all in Mass.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; South Bend, Ind.; Blanden Mem. A. Gal., Fort Dodge, Iowa; Brookgreen Gardens, S.C.; Farnese Coll., Borghese Coll., both in Rome.

Comments: Specialty: portrait busts, reliefs, symbolic figures, fountains, soldiers" monuments. Author: "Hieronymus Rides," "The Candid Adventurer." Founder: ARC, studio of portrait masks, France, 1917-19.

Sources: WW38; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists; Art by American Women: ...the Collection of L.and A. Sellars, 138; Falk, Exh. Record Series.