American, 1913 - 2006
Elizabeth Gordon was educated in New York at the Brearley, Spence, and Lenox Schools, and at the Art Students League. She studied sculpture under Edmondo Quattrocchi. From 1934 to 1946, her primary career was as a concert harpist and teacher of the instrument.
She has specialized in portraiture and medal work. Among notable examples of her busts are those of James Forrestal, which is on the aircraft carrier, U. S. S. Forrestal; and of Chief Justices Charles Evans Hughes and Harlan Fiske Stone at the Columbia University School of Law, New York.
Among her many awards are several given in Academy annual exhibitions: the Thomas R. Proctor Prize in 1956, (for the bust of Forrestal), and the Dessie Greer Prize in 1960, 1979, and 1985. Chandler has been an active member of the National Sculpture Society, the National Arts Club, the Allied Artists of America, and the Lyme Art Association, among others.
In 1946 she married Robert Kirtland Chandler, whom she survived; she married the sculptor Laci de Gerenday in 1979.
She has specialized in portraiture and medal work. Among notable examples of her busts are those of James Forrestal, which is on the aircraft carrier, U. S. S. Forrestal; and of Chief Justices Charles Evans Hughes and Harlan Fiske Stone at the Columbia University School of Law, New York.
Among her many awards are several given in Academy annual exhibitions: the Thomas R. Proctor Prize in 1956, (for the bust of Forrestal), and the Dessie Greer Prize in 1960, 1979, and 1985. Chandler has been an active member of the National Sculpture Society, the National Arts Club, the Allied Artists of America, and the Lyme Art Association, among others.
In 1946 she married Robert Kirtland Chandler, whom she survived; she married the sculptor Laci de Gerenday in 1979.
