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Name
  
Brenda Putnam

Parents
  
Herbert Putnam

Role
  
Author

Cousins
  
Marjorie Jacobi McAneny

Brenda Putnam
Died
  
1975, Concord, New Hampshire, United States

Books
  
The Sculptor's Way: A Guide to Modelling and Sculpture

Aunts
  
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Similar People
  
Herbert Putnam, George Palmer Putnam, Mary Corinna Putnam J

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Brenda Putnam (1890–1975) was a noted American sculptor and author. Born into a well-connected family, she was the daughter of Herbert Putnam and granddaughter of George Palmer Putnam.

Contents

Her work can be seen at Syracuse University's Carnegie Library.

Putnam's book The Sculptor's Way: A guide to modelling and sculpture was first published in 1939 and is still considered a classic on the subject.

Work

  • Puck by Brenda Putnam, marble, at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.. 1932
  • Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Folger Shakespeare Library (1932)
  • Flight University of Notre Dame, Snite Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana and Harvard University, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1942
  • William Adams Delano, 1950, National Academy of Design, New York
  • Harriet, Isabella and Katherine Beecher. Stowe-Day Foundation, Hartford, Connecticut
  • Jane Addams, Bronx Community College, Bronx, New York
  • Pablo Casals, Hispanic Society of America, New York and Vil·la Casals, Sant Salvador del Vendrell (Catalonia)
  • Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
  • Portrait of Amelia Earhart, Syracuse University
  • John Mapother, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
  • several pieces at Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina
  • Cleveland Centennial half dollar, 1936.
  • Cemetery work

  • Simon Memorial 1917, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington D.C.
  • Carefree Days ca. 1932, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, California
  • Fortitude, Kindliness, Vision 1943, Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia
  • "Porter monument", Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
  • References

    Brenda Putnam Wikipedia