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Enid Bland Yandell, 1869-1934

Title

Enid Bland Yandell, 1869-1934

Subject

Sculptors -- History -- Sources.
Kentucky -- Description and travel.
Louisville (Ky.) -- Social life and customs
Tennessee -- Centennial celebrations, etc
Sculptors -- Photographs.
Sculpture -- Photographs.
Yandell, Enid
Women sculptors

Description

A selected set of items from the Enid Bland Yandell Photograph Collection and the Enid Bland Yandell Papers at The Filson Historical Society

Creator

Yandell, Enid Bland (1869-1934)

Source

Enid Bland Yandell Photograph Collection
Enid Bland Yandell Papers

Date

1869-1926

Rights

This collection is issued by The Filson Historical Society. Property rights in the collection belong to The Filson Historical Society. The user is responsible for copyright issues. Permission for use of this image for ANY reason should be obtained by contacting Filson's Curator of Collections via research@filsonhistorical.org.

Format

Photographs

Type

Text
Still Image

Identifier

Mss. A Y216
987PC52X

Collection Items

  • enid_sample010.jpg

    Watercolor of color theory and had written notes created by Enid Bland Yandell. Date is unknown, but it was probably created during her time at the Art Academy of Cincinnati (1887-1889).
  • yandell, enid_red cross certificate_A_Y21b_63.jpg

    American Red Cross certificate given to Enid Bland Yandell, honoring her for her service to the United States of America.
  • yandell, enid_appui aux artistes menu_A_Y21b_64.jpg

    Appui Aux Artistes (Aid for Artists) pamphlet. Established by Enid Bland Yandell and four other women in August 1914. Appui Aux Artistes provided affordable meals for those involved in the arts and their families. Appui used American contacts to raise money for the organization.
  • enid_sample009.jpg

    Watercolor still life and practice of color theory created by Enid Bland Yandell. Date is unknown, but it probably created during her time at the Art Academy of Cincinnati (1887-1889).
  • Enid_PrivateViewing_vol. 94.jpg

    Page of Enid Bland Yandell's early career scrapbook. Enid actively documented her career by clipping articles that related to her and other sculptors works. This page shows a business card Enid created for a private viewing at her studio at 315 W. Broadway, Louisville, KY.
  • Enid_p51.jpg

    Page of Enid Bland Yandell's early career scrapbook. Enid actively documented her career by clipping articles that related to her our other women sculptors. This page shows a Louisville Times article, "Miss Enid Yandell and her work" (Tuesday Evening, October 20, 1891).
  • Enid_p08.jpg

    A page from Enid Bland Yandell's early career scrapbook. Enid actively documented her career by clipping articles that related to her and other women sculptors. This page shows a Courier-Journal article, "Miss Yandell's Work in Paris" (1896). The article also includes an image of a statuette of Miss Elsie Yandell, and an image of Enid at work in her Paris studio
  • Branstock_tc.jpg

    Advertisement for The Branstock found within "The Craftsman" journal. In 1907 Enid Bland Yandell founded Branstock, a summer art school that taught a variety of classes.
  • 987PC52X_273.jpg

    Group of small figurines Enid created between 1897-1912 including: Bluebeard's Wife (1911), The Five Senses (ca. 1909), and the Fisher Boy and Mermaid tankard (1897).
  • 987PC52X_246.jpg

    Half figure bust of Mademoiselle Deckert de la Meillaie with her hair pulled up on top of her head and a shawl wrapped around her bare shoulders. Her hand rests on the head of a dog. One of only two known portraits by Yandell in the half-figure format (the other is the 1907 likeness of Dr. Bull), this figure represents a French friend of Enid's. The painted plaster is part of the Speed Art Museum's collection and the marble version is part of The Fine Arts Museum of Nantes collection in Nantes, France.
  • 987PC52X_233.jpg

    Bust of Emma Willard. The notation reads Public Library, Albany, New York.
  • 987PC52X_168_1.jpg

    Two pages from a photograph album created by Enid Yandell. Photograph album pages. Side One: works of Enid Bland Yandell including: a caryatid (1891-1892) created for the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair of 1893), a bust of Alfred Victor DuPont (1894), a bust of Landon Cabell Garland (1897), and two views of Enid's Daniel Boone statue in studio (1893). Side Two: The top left and bottom left sculptures are not identified. The right is Enid Yandell in a studio with two of her sculptures (a model of The Fisher Boy on the table and Allah-il-Allah to the right)
  • 987PC52X_166.jpg

    Enid Bland Yandell painting or drawing a nude female figure, no date.
  • 987PC52X_125.jpg

    Enid Bland Yandell poses with model and sculpture of Indian Chief Ninigret. This was Enid's last major public commission which depicted the Niantic chief know for his peaceful relations with European settlers in his territory of Rhode Island. The model for the figure was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, performing in Paris at the time. The finished work presently rests on a rock beside the bay in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. A version of Chief Ninigret was one of two works which Yandell exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show. The other work featured was the Five Sense Fountain.
  • 987PC52X_121.jpg

    The Five Senses Fountain at an unknown site. The fountain was cast in bronze and measured 7' H, 5'3" in diameter at the basin. This was one of two works which Yandell exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show.
  • 987PC52X_116.jpg

    Detail of Pan and the terrapins on Hogan's Fountain in Cherokee Park.
  • 987PC52X_112.jpg

    Victory statue made of staff or plaster which was commissioned for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, MO. Two identical versions were made - one of staff and one of plaster. The Municipal Museum in St. Louis, MO owns the plaster.
  • 987PC52X_109.jpg

    Front view of marble statue of Hermes, Enid's final project for the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
  • 987PC52X_086.jpg

    Enid Bland Yandell poses in her studio in front of the plaster cast of the Carrie Brown Memorial Fountain. She is holding some of the tools used to sculpt the piece.
  • 987PC52X_071.jpg

    Enid Bland Yandell (center), Janet Scudder (left), and two other women pose on scaffolding in front of a caryatide in Lorado Taft's studio in Chicago. Enid along with Janet worked in Taft's studio together during the World's Columbian Exposition, better known as the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.