page_title: Nancy Coonsman
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Nancy Coonsman / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: FROGS AND GIRLS (FOUNTAIN GROUP) Identifier: internationalstu70newy (find matches) Title: International studio Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament Publisher: New York Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ieut.-Col.Phillippe B. Varilla, by Miss MalvinaHoffmann; of General George W. Goethals,by Mr. Sigurd Neandross; and of Mrs.Nicholas Biddle, by Dr. R. Tait McKenzie;good nudes in Miss Nancy Coonsmans fountain group. Frogs and Girls, and The Pigeon Girl, by Mr. Brenda Putnam; anda capital bit of animal work in Miss Laura Gardin Frasers Snuff. 000 Eugene Castello TORONTO.—The forty-first exhibi-tion of the Royal Canadian Academy at the Art Gallery was distinctly richerthan its predecessor here some two yearsago. It contained four large canvasespainted for the Canadian War Memorials,and had also a greater variety of portraitand figure work than usual. The work ofyounger contributors was fairly progres-sive in character, and held its own wellwith the older and more conventional pic-tures. 0 0 0 0 0The four war canvases are by J. W.Beatty, Maurice CuUen, k. Y. Jackson,and F. H. Varley. In his Huy, on theMeuse, Belgium, Maurice Cullen hasfrankly abandoned the strict theme of war 77 STUDIO-TALK Text Appearing After Image: FROGS AND GIRLS (FOUNTAIN GROUP) BY NANCY COONSMAN (Pennsylvania Academy) for a spacious wintry perspective of sun and snow across leagues of air&#160;; A. Y.Jacksons Olympic in Halifax Harbour is an interesting experiment in explicit de-sign and detail on the part of one who has78 wellnigh perfected himself in the art of reticent interpretation, as in his deeply satisfying Ships entering Halifax Harbour&#160;;here is shown a day of thawing snow among mean shacks by the waterside with the quiet procession of ships beyond, the realJackson. F. H. Varleys Prisoners is quiteworthy of being ranked with the two greatwar pictures that he has already painted.The bedraggled prisoners are seen stum-bling listlessly past a row of broken androtting tree-stumps&#160;; one cannot but thinkit unlikely that the tragic, mutilated treesof the Flanders front have been turnedto such account by any other artist.Varleys extraordinary gain in ower is themost striking single fact in Canadian artat the present moment. a a 0 Portra Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Nancy Coonsman Hahn was an American sculptor who won the commission for the Missouri War Memorial in Cheppy, France.
context_section_description: Nancy Coonsman exhibited in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, New York Academy of Design and Western Artists' Exhibition.
  For her lighter work, fountains, both for interior decorations and the garden, had always held her attention. Coonsman placed a fountain in the Mullanphy Floral Shop, a center fountain with graceful cherubs, and made another of quite pretentious design for Randolph Laughlin's new home, "Lachlin," in St. Louis County. A little St. Louis girl posed for this. There were two figures, and hers was kneeling down on flat stones catching the water in a lily leaf, which she held in her hand, as it trickled through the rock.
  Another ambition was to do large agricultural figures in a big conventional way, but in St. Louis the need or call for such work did not come up often.
  Coonsman also worked as a teacher, as assistant in the Art School, private classes, and regularly at Bishop Robertson Hall.
  She did a portrait of Ruth Felker. It was dignified and true to life. Another sketch of Eloise Wells was a charming piece of workmanship, as well as of Elsie Blackman and Georgia Cady.
  Coonsman was selected over a number of competitors to execute sculpture for a fountain for the Kincaid Memorial to be located in the sunken garden behind the Public School Library. Margaret Kincaid of Louisiana, Missouri, had donated funds for a drinking fountain, specifying that the competition had to be open only to women. Coonsman also designed the two concrete benches nearby which are supported by elves.
  In 1922, Nancy Coonsman won a $25,000 ($348,890.17 in 2017) competition to design the war memorial, called Victory, erected in Cheppy-Varennes-en-Argonne, France, to honor the Missouri soldiers from the 35th Infantry Division (United States) killed during World War I.
  In 1926 she designed The Doughboy, dedicated in 1928, to honor World War I soldiers and placed in Overton Park (or Veterans Park) in Memphis, Tennessee.
  Later in life she became a teacher and worked on small figures and busts.
caption: Frogs and Girls, International studio (1897)
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