Brenda Putnam

Brenda Putnam (1890–1975) was a noted American sculptor and author. Born into a well-connected family, she was the daughter of Herbert Putnam and granddaughter of George Palmer Putnam.

Her work can be seen at Syracuse University's Carnegie Library.^[1]

Putnam's book The Sculptor's Way: A guide to modelling and sculpture was first published in 1939^[2] and is still considered a classic on the subject.

Work

• Puck by Brenda Putnam, marble, at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C..^[3] 1932
• Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Folger Shakespeare Library ^[4] (1932)
• Flight University of Notre Dame, Snite Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana and Harvard University, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1942
• William Adams Delano, 1950, National Academy of Design, New York
• Harriet, Isabella and Katherine Beecher. Stowe-Day Foundation, Hartford, Connecticut
• Jane Addams, Bronx Community College, Bronx, New York
• Pablo Casals, Hispanic Society of America, New York and Vil·la Casals, Sant Salvador del Vendrell (Catalonia)
• Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
• Portrait of Amelia Earhart, Syracuse University
• John Mapother, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
• several pieces at Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina
• Cleveland Centennial half dollar, 1936.

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  Maimonides (US House of Representatives)

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  Sundial
  (Brookgreen Gardens)

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  Puck (Folger Shakespeare Library)

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  Cleveland Centennial half dollar

Cemetery work

• Simon Memorial 1917, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington D.C.
• Carefree Days ca. 1932, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, California
• Fortitude, Kindliness, Vision 1943, Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia ^[5]
• "Porter monument", Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA^[6]

References

1. "Brenda Putnam". Smithsonian. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
2. Putnam, Brenda, The Sculptor's Way: A guide to modelling and sculpture. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. New York, 1939
3. Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions, G. K. Hall and Co. Boston, 1990. p. 248
4. http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1343668XY6539.3917&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!5125~!2&ri=5&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Putnam,+Brenda,[phone],+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=5
5. http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=
6. "Porter Monument". Allegheny Cemetery. Retrieved 15 May 2015.