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for Bonnie MacLeary
1892 - 1971
MacLeary's father, James Harvey MacLeary, served as governor of Montana, attorney general of Texas and chief American justice of the supreme court of Puerto Rico; her mother, Mary King MacLeary was a concert singer.
MacLeary began her formal art training at the age of ten at the Academie Julian in Paris where she was staying with her grandparents. Later, settling in New York, she studied with W.M. Chase at the New York School of Art and with James Earle Fraser at the Art Students League. She won her first prize at the Women's Exposition of Arts and Sciences in 1928.
MacLeary worked in marble, bronze, stone and occasionally ceramic. Her forte was modeling the female figure, hands in particular, although she also did public monuments, garden pieces and portraits.
MacLeary's sculptural commissions include: the Munoz Rivera Monument, Univeristy of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico; the Gifford Memorial, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn; "Victory," World War Memorial, San Juan, Puerto Rico; the Ben Milam monument, San Antonio, Texas; Memorial Relief to Women of the Confederacy, Montgomery, Alabama. Her work "Ouch" is at the Brooklyn Children's Museum and "Aspiration" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
MacLeary was married twice, first to Ernest W. Kramer and later to James McGahan. She lived and worked in New York until 1955 when she moved to Washington, New Jersey; in 1966 she retired to Florida.
MacLeary began her formal art training at the age of ten at the Academie Julian in Paris where she was staying with her grandparents. Later, settling in New York, she studied with W.M. Chase at the New York School of Art and with James Earle Fraser at the Art Students League. She won her first prize at the Women's Exposition of Arts and Sciences in 1928.
MacLeary worked in marble, bronze, stone and occasionally ceramic. Her forte was modeling the female figure, hands in particular, although she also did public monuments, garden pieces and portraits.
MacLeary's sculptural commissions include: the Munoz Rivera Monument, Univeristy of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico; the Gifford Memorial, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn; "Victory," World War Memorial, San Juan, Puerto Rico; the Ben Milam monument, San Antonio, Texas; Memorial Relief to Women of the Confederacy, Montgomery, Alabama. Her work "Ouch" is at the Brooklyn Children's Museum and "Aspiration" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
MacLeary was married twice, first to Ernest W. Kramer and later to James McGahan. She lived and worked in New York until 1955 when she moved to Washington, New Jersey; in 1966 she retired to Florida.
