1894 - 1991
Jackson spent her childhood in Germany and Italy and, with the outbreak of World War I, went to Boston where she studied at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts. Bela Pratt and Charles Grafly were her early teachers. She returned to Italy after the war, studied at the Scuola Rosatti in Florence and with Angelo Zanelli in Rome. She remained in Europe until 1935 when she settled in Newburgh, New York.
Animals were always her favorite models and her early works, Starling and Pelican, both bought by the Concord, Massachusetts, Art Association early in her career, are evidence of this interest. The suclptor exhibited a number of her animal pieces at the National Academy over the years, beginning in 1935. She won the Speyer Prize here on three occasions: in 1945 for her horse group, Playday and Romance; in 1949 for Indian Antilope; and in 1960 for The Listeners. During her years in Italy, her abilities as an animalier attracted the attention of Benito Mussolini who asked her to model a small statue of his favorite horse.
Jackson was also adept at sculpture the human figure; for example, her Don Quixote (Wellesley College) won the Academy's Mahonri Young Memorial Prize in 1965. In addition, she has exectued a number of relief portraits and fountain and garden figures.
She was a member of the Guild of Boston Artists and the National Sculpture Society, among others.
Animals were always her favorite models and her early works, Starling and Pelican, both bought by the Concord, Massachusetts, Art Association early in her career, are evidence of this interest. The suclptor exhibited a number of her animal pieces at the National Academy over the years, beginning in 1935. She won the Speyer Prize here on three occasions: in 1945 for her horse group, Playday and Romance; in 1949 for Indian Antilope; and in 1960 for The Listeners. During her years in Italy, her abilities as an animalier attracted the attention of Benito Mussolini who asked her to model a small statue of his favorite horse.
Jackson was also adept at sculpture the human figure; for example, her Don Quixote (Wellesley College) won the Academy's Mahonri Young Memorial Prize in 1965. In addition, she has exectued a number of relief portraits and fountain and garden figures.
She was a member of the Guild of Boston Artists and the National Sculpture Society, among others.
