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Appui Aux Artistes pamphlet, 1914
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. -
Bust of Emma Willard, 1898
Bust of Emma Willard. The notation reads Public Library, Albany, New York. -
Carrie Brown Memorial Fountain. 1899
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. -
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. -
Color Theory of Watercolor and handwritten notes, n.d.
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). -
Enid and dogs, ca. 1890
Enid Bland Yandell poses with her dogs in front of a house. -
Enid and friends, ca, 1890
Enid Bland Yandell (on right) poses with three unidentified women. -
Enid and nude in studio, n.d.
Enid Bland Yandell painting or drawing a nude female figure, no date. -
Enid Bland Yandell and friends, ca. 1900
Enid Bland Yandell (center) stands with a group of women in the woods. All the women are holding bouquets of flowers. -
Enid Bland Yandell and Janet Scudder in studio, ca. 1891
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. -
Enid Bland Yandell in ball gown, n.d.
Enid Bland Yandell in ball gown (costume) standing before an ornate throne. Possibly when she was crowned the Queen of the carnival as part of pagenants and entertainments of the Satellies of Mercury. -
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. -
Enid Yandell and Geysa de Braunecker in France, ca. 1895
Enid Bland Yandell and Baroness Geysa Hortense de Braunecker pose with a bicycle in the French countryside. Enid is on the right holding a bicyle, and Geysa Hortense de Braunecker is holding a dog. Both women are wearing hats. -
Enid Yandell and Geysa de Braunecker in studio, ca. 1898
Enid Bland Yandell and Baroness Geysa Hortense de Braunecker with Mary Crosby Hunt bas relief [1898] posing in studio. The current location of this bas relief is unknown. -
Enid Yandell with Red Cross, ca. 1917
Enid Bland Yandell, (seated, third from the right) sits with fellow Red Cross members at the Debarkation Records Department in New Jersey. -
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. -
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). -
Frederick MacMonnies' Studio class, ca. 1895
Enid Bland Yandell's painting class at Frederick MacMonnies' studio in Paris. Enid stands behind MacMonnies staring at the camera. Frederick William MacMonnies, an American, was one of the first sculptors to accept female students. -
Hogan's Fountain, 1903-1904
Detail of Pan and the terrapins on Hogan's Fountain in Cherokee Park. -
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.