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  • 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
  • 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_069.jpg

    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.
  • 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.
  • 987PC52X_109.jpg

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