14 Facts About Frances Grimes

Frances Taft Grimes was an American sculptor, best remembered for her bas-relief portraits and busts.

Frances Grimes worked with the terminally-ill Saint Gaudens from 1900 to his death in 1907.

Frances Grimes stayed on at Saint Gauden's studio to finish several of his commissions, including the Phillips Brooks Memorial at Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts ; and eight larger-than-life caryatids for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, which she executed from his sketch models.

Frances Grimes recorded her experiences at Cornish in her unpublished "Reminiscences".

Frances Grimes had a major success with her bas-relief panel The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

In 1916, Joseph Parsons commissioned Frances Grimes to create two bas-relief panels to flank a fountain at his country house in Lakeville, Connecticut.

Daniel Chester French saw the panels, and asked Frances Grimes to lend them for a 1918 exhibition of contemporary sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Frances Grimes was elected a member of the National Sculpture Society in 1912, and a member emeritus in 1961.

Frances Grimes was elected an Associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1931, and a full Academician in 1945.

Frances Grimes was a member of National Association of Women Artists and of the American Federation of Arts.

Frances Grimes was awarded a Silver Medal for numismatic design at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

Frances Grimes received the 1916 McMillan Sculpture Prize from the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.

Frances Grimes was awarded the 1920 National Association Medal of Sculpture from the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.

Frances Grimes died at age 94 in New York City in November 1963.