19 Facts About Angela Gregory

Angela Gregory was an American sculptor and professor of art.

Angela Gregory became one of the few women of her era to be recognized nationally in a field generally dominated by men.

Angela Gregory was born in October 18,1903 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to parents William B Gregory and Selina Bres Gregory.

Angela Gregory's mother, Selina Bres Gregory, was an artist who studied at Newcomb College in New Orleans with William Woodward and Ellsworth Woodward.

Angela Gregory's father, William B Gregory, was an engineering professor at Tulane University.

Angela Gregory said she made her first piece of sculpture when she was twelve years old, crafting a birdbath out of chicken wire, concrete, and a wastebasket.

Angela Gregory's early influences included her mother, Selina Bres Gregory, who had been a student of Ellsworth Woodward at Newcomb College in New Orleans and was an early Newcomb potter.

Angela Gregory was awarded a one-year scholarship to the Paris branch of the Parsons School of Fine and Applied Arts to study illustrative advertising.

Angela Gregory took classes from him at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere.

Angela Gregory's sculpture was exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries in Paris in 1928.

Angela Gregory reconnected Campbell with Krishnamurti, who was posing for a portrait bust for Bourdelle at the time.

In 1931, Angela Gregory worked on a team of sculptors who executed historical panels for the facade of a new state capitol building in Baton Rouge built during the administrations of Governor Huey Long.

From 1934 to 1937 Angela Gregory taught ceramics at Newcomb College and later was an artist-in-residence and sculpture professor there.

Angela Gregory was involved in federal arts programs during the Depression.

Angela Gregory spent two years in France supervising the casting of the monument.

Angela Gregory was a professor and sculptor-in-residence for two decades at the St Mary's Dominican College in New Orleans, and was named professor emerita when she retired in 1976.

Angela Gregory is often credited with being one of the few women sculptors of her era to complete three public monuments.

Angela Gregory's work has been exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries, at the National Gallery in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Angela Gregory is represented in private collections and several museums.