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Enid and friends, ca, 1890

Enid Bland Yandell (on right) poses with three unidentified women.

Enid with Birthday Beasts and The Pioneer, 1926

Enid Bland Yandell poses in her Red Cross uniform holding one of her Birthday Beasts (also known as Wind in the Willows, 1926). Her small plaster titled The Pioneer (also known as Daniel Boone, 1924) plus one more beast sits on the table. Small, table sculptures were popular during the late 19th and early 20th century due to the rise of middle class incomes.

Statue of Hermes, 1889

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

Pallas Athena, 1897

Statue of Pallas Athena outside the Parthenon, displayed at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville, Tennessee. The statue was twenty-five feet tall (forty feet with the base) and became the symbol of the Exposition. It was an exact copy of the "Pallas de Velletrie" in the Louvre and was produced in staff, a combination of plaster, hemp, and cement. It eventually fell apart due to outdoor exposure. Today limited images exist of the full statue, including this one housed at the Filson.

Victory Statue, 1903-1904

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.

Hogan's Fountain, 1903-1904

Detail of Pan and the terrapins on Hogan's Fountain in Cherokee Park.

The Five Senses Fountain, 1909

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.

Chief Ninigret Statue

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.

Pages from Enid Yandell's Photograph Album, ca. 1901

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)

Mademoiselle Deckert de la Meillaie. ca. 1904

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.

Figurines by Enid Yandell, ca. 1912

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).

Page from Early Career Scrapbook of Enid Yandell, 1891-1899

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

Page from early career scrapbook from Enid Yandell, ca. 1891

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 Yandell's Studio Card, ca. 1891

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.

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