22 Facts About Enid Yandell

Enid Yandell created numerous portraits, garden pieces and small works as well as public monuments.

Enid Yandell contributed to The Woman's Building at the Chicago World's Fair.

Enid Yandell completed degrees in chemistry and art at Hampton College, a school for girls in Louisville.

Enid Yandell then attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati, where she completed a four-year program in two years, winning a first-prize medal upon graduation in 1889.

Enid Yandell took advantage of apprenticeships with noted sculptors of the day.

Enid Yandell was one of a group of women sculptors known as the White Rabbits, who were organized by sculptor Lorado Taft to complete the numerous statues and other architectural embellishments for the Horticultural Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

Enid Yandell designed and carved the caryatid that supported the roof garden of The Woman's Building.

Enid Yandell co-wrote a semi-autobiographical account of her involvement in planning the fair, Three Girls in a Flat.

In 1894, Enid Yandell went to Paris, where she studied with Frederick William MacMonnies and other instructors at the Academie Vitti in Montparnasse.

Enid Yandell returned to Paris frequently, maintaining a studio there and exhibiting at the Paris Salon.

In 1898 Enid Yandell became the first woman member to join the National Sculpture Society.

Enid Yandell died on June 12,1934, in Boston, Massachusetts, and is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, Section O, Lot 396.

Sculptures by Enid Yandell include a nine-foot statue of Daniel Boone, which was commissioned by the Filson Club of Louisville and exhibited outside the Kentucky Building at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

At age 27, Enid Yandell was commissioned to create a monumental sculpture of Pallas Athena for the 1897 Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition.

Enid Yandell based the design on the Pallas de Velletri, found near Rome, Italy, in the eighteenth century, which was itself a copy of an ancient Greek statue.

Enid Yandell exhibited a plaster version of the fountain - then named "Struggle of Existence" - for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

Enid Yandell produced a sculpture of Ninigret, a 17th-century sachem of the eastern Niantic tribe, which was erected in 1914 in the seaside town of Watch Hill, Rhode Island.

Enid Yandell contributed to the education of future artists by founding in 1908 the Branstock School in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

Enid Yandell worked with Appui Aux Artists, an organization which provided affordable meals for those involved in the arts and their families.

Enid Yandell was an active supporter of women's suffrage, offering her art in exhibits for fundraising efforts.

Enid Yandell campaigned for Calvin Coolidge in Massachusetts when he ran for office on a pro-woman suffrage platform in the early 1900s.

Enid Yandell was buried in Louisville, Kentucky, at the Cave Hill Cemetery with her family and next to her sister Maud.