Enid Yandell

Enid Bland Yandell (born October 6, 1869 in Louisville , Kentucky , † June 12, 1934 in Boston ) was an American sculptor .

Early life and education

Enid Yandell was born in 1869 as the eldest daughter of the doctor and veteran of the Civil War Lunsford Pitts Yandell (1837-1884) and Maria Louise Elliston Yandell (1844-1908) in Louisville. She had three siblings, the sisters Maud Yandell (1871-1962), who like Enid Yandell never married, and Elsie Yandell, as well as the brother Lunsford P. Yandell III (1878-1927). Her mother liked to paint and gave her a connection to art at an early age. Yandell attended Hampton College in Louisville. There she graduated in chemistry and arts. She then studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati . There she completed a four-year course in just two years and won first prize for her thesis in 1889.

She studied with famous artists of her time, was a student of Lorado Taft and Philip Martiny in Chicago and of Karl Bitter in New York City . In the winter of 1894 Yandell went to Paris and studied with Auguste Rodin , Frederick MacMonnies and other sculptors at the Académie Vitti .

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World's Columbian Exposition

Daniel Boone by Enid Yandell

In 1891 she was employed by Lorado Taft as an assistant for the World's Columbian Exposition . She was part of a group of young and talented sculptors who worked with him on making sculptures and decorative elements for the horticultural buildings of the exhibition. Taft was responsible for the design of these buildings and he was unable to carry out the work on his own. Male sculptors were no longer available as assistants, as they were all already busy with work for the exhibition. This is how Taft engaged the young sculptors. This group was called the White Rabbits and they caused a stir with their excellent work. She also helped other artists during their work for the exhibition, so she worked with Carl Rohl-Smith on his statue of Benjamin Franklin and helped Philip Martiny with various sculptures. In 1892, the Louisville Historical Society, the Filson Club , commissioned her to build a statue of Daniel Boone that was erected in front of the Kentucky State Building of the exhibition. This statue was later executed in bronze and is now located in Louisville's Cherokee Park . A copy of the statue is on the Eastern Kentucky University campus .

Bertha Palmer, the director of the Woman's Department at the World's Columbian Exposition , commissioned her in 1893 to manufacture the caryatids on the Woman's Building .

Together with Laura Hayes and Jean Loughboroug she wrote the partly autobiographical novella Three Girls in a Flat about the world exhibition and the role of female sculptors in the exhibition.

Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition

Pallas Athena by Enid Yandell

For the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition in Nashville in 1897, Yandell got her next big commission: a colossal statue of Pallas Athena . The statue was 12.8 m (42 feet ) high. She created the sculpture in her Paris studio. The statue was shipped from France to America. Because of her size, she was fixed on deck instead of in the hold and brought to Nashville via New Orleans . Since the statue was never made in bronze, it was destroyed by the weather within a year. Yandell earned a lot of respect for this statue, which at the time was the largest statue ever made by a woman, and she was inducted into the National Sculpture Society in 1898 as the first woman .

Other works

Carrie Brown Memorial Fontaine by Enid Yandell

Her other works include:

a sculpture of the god Pan for the Hogan Fountain in Louisville's Cherokee Park .
the Carrie Brown Memorial Fontaine in Providence , Rhode Island .
Five Senses , exhibited on the New York Armory Show in 1913.

In 1915 she received a letter from Gutzon Borglum asking for help with his work on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial .

Social work

Yandell founded the Branstock School in Edgartown , Massachusetts in 1908 . Initially planned as a school for sculptors, it was expanded in 1909 to include the departments of drawing, painting and ceramic decoration. Albert Sterner taught portrait painting. In other classes, metalwork was taught. The students stayed for three months. In addition to class, they found comfortable accommodation, a tea room and other artists who stayed here in summer.

She also supported the campaign for women's suffrage and Calvin Coolidge in his election campaign. Influenced by World War I , Yandell practically ceased her career. In France she was involved in a French organization and in the Red Cross for the care of war orphans. She supported the Appui Aux Artists movement , which provided affordable meals for artists and their families. Upon her return to the United States, she served as director of the Bureau of Communications for the American Red Cross in New York City and chair of the women's committee for the National Defense Council.

Yandell no longer took up her career as a sculptor. She died on June 12, 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her grave is in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville. Yandell remained unmarried.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times . University of Georgia Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8203-4752-3 , pp. 196 ( books.google.de ).
^ Enid Yandell (1869-1934) - Find A Grave Memorial. In: findagrave.com. Retrieved June 15, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g The Filson Historical Society; Enid Yandell: Sculpting a Legacy by Robin L. Wallace , accessed June 16, 2017
^ ^A ^b ^c Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition . Univ of California Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-520-24111-4 , pp. 209 ( books.google.de ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kentucky’s Sculptor Enid Yandell by Deborah Pollack, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, August 31, 2015 , accessed June 15, 2017
^ Carrie Brown Memorial Fountain Today. In: brown.edu. Retrieved June 15, 2017 .
^ Historical Perspective: Enid Yandell and the Branstock School. In: mvtimes.com. 2014, accessed June 15, 2017 .

Remarks

↑ Some sources give 1870 as the year of birth, some sources June 13th as the date of death. Here the data of your tombstone and the corresponding sources have been adopted.

Web links

Commons : Enid Yandell - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Enid Yandell in the database of Find a Grave (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Yandell, Enid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Yandell, Enid Bland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American sculptress
DATE OF BIRTH	October 6, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Louisville , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH	June 12, 1934
Place of death	Boston

[Kentucky_Women-2] A ^b ^c Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times . University of Georgia Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8203-4752-3 , pp. 196 ( books.google.de ).

[find-3] Enid Yandell (1869-1934) - Find A Grave Memorial. In: findagrave.com. Retrieved June 15, 2017 .

[Filson-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g The Filson Historical Society; Enid Yandell: Sculpting a Legacy by Robin L. Wallace , accessed June 16, 2017

[Columbain-5] A ^b ^c Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition . Univ of California Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-520-24111-4 , pp. 209 ( books.google.de ).

[AAA-6] Kentucky’s Sculptor Enid Yandell by Deborah Pollack, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, August 31, 2015 , accessed June 15, 2017

[Brown-7] Carrie Brown Memorial Fountain Today. In: brown.edu. Retrieved June 15, 2017 .

[School-8] Historical Perspective: Enid Yandell and the Branstock School. In: mvtimes.com. 2014, accessed June 15, 2017 .

[1] Some sources give 1870 as the year of birth, some sources June 13th as the date of death. Here the data of your tombstone and the corresponding sources have been adopted.