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for Laura Gardin Fraser
American, 1889 - 1966
Laura Gardin studied in New York at the Horace Mann School and at the Art Students League under the sculptor James Earle Fraser whom she married in 1913. She specialized in the sculpting of animal figures, portraits, and medals, for which she earned a number of awards. At the National Academy, for example, she won the Barnett Prize in 1916 for Nymph and Satyr (cat. no. 45), the Saltus Medal in 1924 for Dog and Horse Medals (cat. no. 105), and the Watrous Medal in 1930 for Spirit of Air (cat. no. 60).
Her public sculptures included portrait statues of Alexander Hamilton and John Ericsson in Washington, D. C.; and a series of large bronze panels depicting scenes from American history for the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. Among the medals that she designed is the Charles A. Lindbergh Medal, which commemorates the aviator's historic flight across the Atlantic in 1927.
She was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club, the National Sculpture Society, the American Numismatic Society, and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Her public sculptures included portrait statues of Alexander Hamilton and John Ericsson in Washington, D. C.; and a series of large bronze panels depicting scenes from American history for the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. Among the medals that she designed is the Charles A. Lindbergh Medal, which commemorates the aviator's historic flight across the Atlantic in 1927.
She was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club, the National Sculpture Society, the American Numismatic Society, and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.
