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Bessie Potter Vonnoh
Lyme Art Colony Sculptor
(1872–1955) In Lyme: 1906-1955
When Bessie Potter was only 14, she had already decided that she wanted to become a sculptor. At the age of 18, she enrolled in Lorado Taft's sculpture class at the Art Institute of Chicago and became one of his assistants, working on a scultpure for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
Bessie Potter Vonnoh usually used women and children as models for her sculpture. She was skilled at capturing the curving lines of the human form in a variety of poses, frequently incorporating a sense of whimsey into her work.
Vonnoh enjoyed success at an early age. She exhibited extensively and received many awards and medals for her work, including the Paris Exposition in 1900, the Pan American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo, the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 in San Francisco. Her work was exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1894-1922, the Society of American Artists, and the National Academy of Design where she was elected an associate member in 1906, and a member in 1921. She was also a member of the National Association of Women Artists and the Lyme Art Association.
While a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, Bessie met the painter Robert Vonnoh whom she married in 1899. They made their home in New York City and Lyme, Connecticut, a place she first visited in 1906. They were, however, divorced several years later and she remarried, eventually returning to Old Lyme, where she died and is buried at the Duck River Cemetery.
Lyme Art Colony Sculptor
(1872–1955) In Lyme: 1906-1955
When Bessie Potter was only 14, she had already decided that she wanted to become a sculptor. At the age of 18, she enrolled in Lorado Taft's sculpture class at the Art Institute of Chicago and became one of his assistants, working on a scultpure for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
Bessie Potter Vonnoh usually used women and children as models for her sculpture. She was skilled at capturing the curving lines of the human form in a variety of poses, frequently incorporating a sense of whimsey into her work.
Vonnoh enjoyed success at an early age. She exhibited extensively and received many awards and medals for her work, including the Paris Exposition in 1900, the Pan American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo, the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 in San Francisco. Her work was exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1894-1922, the Society of American Artists, and the National Academy of Design where she was elected an associate member in 1906, and a member in 1921. She was also a member of the National Association of Women Artists and the Lyme Art Association.
While a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, Bessie met the painter Robert Vonnoh whom she married in 1899. They made their home in New York City and Lyme, Connecticut, a place she first visited in 1906. They were, however, divorced several years later and she remarried, eventually returning to Old Lyme, where she died and is buried at the Duck River Cemetery.
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