US National Statuary Hall Collection

Frances Willard was the first woman to be added to the Statuary Hall Collection, today in 1905. So far, of the 102 sculptures added nine of them honor women, that's 6.86%.
 1905
 Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839-1898)
Educator, Suffragist, Author
Marble by Franklin Simmons

1958
 Maria Louise Sanford (1836-1920)
Educator, Activist and oddly Suffragist Resistor
Bronze by Evelyn Raymond (1908-Present)

1959
 Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953)
Doctor
Bronze by Joy Buba (1904-1998)

1960
Esther Hobart Morris (1814-1902)
Activist, Suffragist, Politician
Bronze by Avard Fairbanks

1980
Mother Joseph (Esther Pariseau 1823-1902)
Architect, Artist, Missionary
Bronze by Felix W. de Weldon
 
1985
Jeanette Pickering Rankin (1880-1973)
 Suffragist, Activist, Pacifist, Politican
Bronze by Terry B. Weaver

2003
 
Sacagawea (1788-1812/1884)
Icon
Bronze after Leonard Crunelle

2005
 
 Thocmentony (Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins 1841-1891)
Activist, Author
Bronze by Benjamin Victor

2009
 Helen Keller (1880-1968)Activist, Suffragist, Author
Bronze by Edward Hlavka

There are slightly more artists represented that are female, twelve of the sculptures at 11.76%.
  1876
Anne Whitney (1821-1915)
 Bronze of Samuel Adams
Image Courtesy of Architect of the Capitol

1889
Blanche  Nevin (1838-1889)
Marble of John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg

 1905 & 1905
Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elizabet Ney  (1833-1907)
 Marble statue of Sam Houston and Marble statue of Stephen F. Austin
Images Courtesy of Architect of the Capital

1905
Helen Farnsworth Mears (1872-1916)
Marble of Frances E. Willard (1839-1898)

1910
Nellie Verne Walker (1874-1973)
 Bronze of James Harlan
 Image Courtesy of Architect of the Capital
1928 & 1931
Belle Marshall Kinney Scholz (1890-1959)
 Jointley executed the bronze statues of both Andrew Jackson and John Sevier with her husband Leopold F. Scholz
 Images Courtesy of Architect of the Capital

1958
Leone Evelyn Raymond (1908-Present)
Bronze of Maria L. Sanford

1959
Joy Buba (1904-1998)
Bronze of  Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953)
1960
 Yolande Jacobson Sheppard (1921-1998)
Bronze of Patrick Anthony McCarran 
Image Courtesy of Architect of the Capital

1965
Suzanne Silvercruys
Bronze of Eusebio F. Kino 
Image Courtesy of Architect of the Capital


1 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are only 100 statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection, two for each state,

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