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for Madeleine Fish Park
1891 - 1960
Park studied at the Art Students League in New York. Her career was interrupted by her marriage to Harold H. Park in 1913 and the raising of three children. In the 1920s she resumed her studies, under Frederic Guinzburg, A. Phimister Proctor, Lawrence Tenney Stevens, and Naum Los. She became a specialist in the sculpting of animals and took advantage of the Barnum and Bailey's Circus wintering at Bridgeport, Connecticut, to observe her subjects. A trip around the world in 1937 helped further her knowledge of animals in the wild.
Examples of Park's work are in the Whitney Museum of Western Art, Cody, Wyoming; the Hall of Fame of the Trotter at Goshen, New York; and the Hammond Museum at North Salem, New York. Her Katonah Donkey was kept on the desk of its owner, Franklin D. Roosevelt, during his presidency, and is now at Hyde Park; and
her sculpture of the Indian elephant Modoc is at Brookgreen Gardens, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina.
Park died of a heart attack while attending a circus performance in Sarasota, Florida. The Academy Council voted an exception to then current regulations prohibiting diploma portraits in sculpture in-the-round to allow the artist's daughter to honor her mother's intention to respond to her election as an Associate. Barbara Bausch, although she did not pursue a career in the arts, clearly had considerable training, doubtless from her mother.
Examples of Park's work are in the Whitney Museum of Western Art, Cody, Wyoming; the Hall of Fame of the Trotter at Goshen, New York; and the Hammond Museum at North Salem, New York. Her Katonah Donkey was kept on the desk of its owner, Franklin D. Roosevelt, during his presidency, and is now at Hyde Park; and
her sculpture of the Indian elephant Modoc is at Brookgreen Gardens, Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina.
Park died of a heart attack while attending a circus performance in Sarasota, Florida. The Academy Council voted an exception to then current regulations prohibiting diploma portraits in sculpture in-the-round to allow the artist's daughter to honor her mother's intention to respond to her election as an Associate. Barbara Bausch, although she did not pursue a career in the arts, clearly had considerable training, doubtless from her mother.
