Hélène Sardeau
Sardeau, circa mid to late 1930s
Hélène Sardeau ( July 7, 1899 – 1968 (or 1969[1]) ) was an American sculptor born in Antwerp who moved with her family to the US when she was about 14 years old.
Early years
Sardeau studied at the Art Students League of New York, Cooper Union, and at the School of American Sculpture, all in New York City.[2][3] She studied with Mahonri Young, perhaps at SCA, where he taught.
She was a founding member of the Sculptors Guild. In the summer of 1949 she was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Personal life
Sardeau was the wife of painter George Biddle.[4][5]
Sardeau’s papers can be found in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art.[1]
Work
- “executed reliefs” for the National Library in Rio de Janeiro and the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation in Mexico City[3][6]
- in many private collections and:[7]
- "Mother and Child", Whitney Museum of American Art, (1933)
- "Amazon", Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, (1932)
- "Kneeling Woman", Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1955)
- "Negro Lament", Philadelphia Museum of Art (1941)
- "Rape of the Sabine", Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial: 'The Slave", Fairmount Park (1940)
References
- 1 2 Art, Archives of American. "Summary of the Helene Sardeau papers, [ca. 1920-1950] - Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution".
- ↑ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986 p.811
- 1 2 Editor (28 October 2014). "EverythingCroton: A LOOK BACK @ HELENE SARDEAU, CROTON SCULPTOR & WIFE OF PAINTER GEORGE BIDDLE".
- ↑ Biddle, George, An American Artist’s Story, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1939 pp.250-251, a book Biddle dedicated to Sardeau
- ↑ Opitz, p. 811
- ↑ obituary dated “3-27-69”
- ↑ "SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System".
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