Caroline Peddle Ball (November 11, 1869 – October 1, 1938)[1] was an American sculptor. She exhibited at both the 1893 Chicago Exposition and the 1900 Paris Exhibition.
Caroline Peddle Ball | |
|---|---|
 Ball working in her Paris studio | |
| Born | November 11, 1869 Terre Haute, Indiana |
| Died | October 1, 1938 (aged 68) Harwinton, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Spouse |
Bertrand E. Ball (m. 1902) |
Biography
editCaroline Peddle was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on November 11, 1869.[2] She studied art at the Rose Polytechnic Institute, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.[3] She continued her education at the Art Students League of New York, under Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Kenyon Cox.[3] She was a member of the Guild of Arts and Crafts and of Art Students' League.
Peddle Ball worked for the Tiffany Glass Company which exhibited her design at the 1893 Chicago Exposition.[3]
In the late 1890s Peddle Ball traveled to Europe. She was in Florence, Italy from September 1895 to March 1896. She had a studio in Paris for several years beginning in May 1897.[2]
She received honorable mention at Paris Exhibition, 1900 the figure "Victory" on the United States building at the Exposition.[2] Additionally she created a memorial fountain at Flushing, Long Island, a medallion portrait of Miss Cox of Terre Haute, a monument to a child in the same city.[4]
Peddle Ball returned to the United States in 1902. She maintained a working studio for the rest of her life, specializing in small bronzes depicting children.[5]
She died in Connecticut on October 1, 1938.[2]
Family
editCaroline Peddle Ball was de younger sister of John B. Peddle. She Ball married Bertrand E. Ball on October 16, 1902. They had one child. The marriage would end in divorce.[2]
Works
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Initial sketch for the Isabella quarter, 1893 -
Gravitation. Medallion, c. 1906 -
Child with picture book. Figurine, c. 1906
References
edit- ^ "Abbott Handerson Thayer letter and drawings to Caroline Peddle Ball, [ca. 1890-1893]". Smithsonian. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ^ a b c d e "Caroline Peddle Ball Collection". Vigo County Public Library. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ a b c Nichols, K.L. "Caroline Peddle Ball (1869 - 1938)". Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ Waters, Clara Erskine Clement (1904). Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. (Public domain ed.). Houghton, Mifflin. pp. 25–.
- ^ "Sculpture of a Girl with Book by Caroline Peddle Ball". Bronze Gallery. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: C. E. C. Waters' "Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D." (1904)
