Mary Tarleton Knollenberg
Mary Lightfoot Tarleton Knollenberg (June 9, 1904 – December 21, 1992) was an American sculptor.
Born in Great Neck, Long Island, Knollenberg was a student of Mahonri Young and Heinz Warneke,[1] and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933.[2] She later married historian , and was stepmother to his son Walter.[1] She was the greataunt of artist Ippy Patterson. During her career she was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Sculptors Guild, and the .[3] Later in life Knollenberg counted among her friends Walker Evans.[4] She died in her sleep at her home in Chester, Connecticut.[1] Her work was the subject of a 2014 retrospective at the Florence Griswold Museum.[5]Her papers and journals, along with diaries of her artist-writer mother, Mary Livingston Tarleton née Plympton, are in the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Mary Tarleton Knollenberg, Sculptor, 88". The New York Times. 7 January 1993. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation – Mary Lightfoot Tarleton". www.gf.org. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ^ F. Turner Reuter (2008). Animal & sporting artists in America. National Sporting Library. ISBN 978-0-9792441-0-0.
- ^ Belinda Rathbone (April 2000). Walker Evans: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 293–. ISBN 0-618-05672-6.
- ^ "Life Stories in Art: Three American Women Artists in Connecticut – Florence Griswold Museum". florencegriswoldmuseum.org. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
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