⌠PAR@ ` LTEXT ` >Whitney, Anne1821╨1915sculptorBorn on September 2, 1821, in Watertown, Massachusetts, Anne Whitney grew up there and from about 1833 in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was educated by tutors and for a year at a private girls╒ school in Bucksport, Maine. In 1850 she returned with her family to Watertown (a section that later became Belmont). During the 1850s she began to write poetry and to experiment in sculpture. She had advanced to making portrait busts by 1855, and in 1859, the year she published a volume titled Poems, she began to study sculpture in earnest. Whitney entered a bust of a child in the 1860 exhibit of the National Academy of Design and in 1864 and 1865 exhibited a life-size ╥Lady Godiva╙ and a colossal ╥Africa╙ in Boston and New York. She studied privately with William Rimmer in Boston for a time and in 1867 journeyed to Rome, where she remained for four years. During that time she also visited Munich. Her ╥Roma,╙ inspired by the poverty of Roman peasants, was shown in London, Boston, and Philadelphia after its completion in 1869, and after her return to the United States she exhibited her statue of Toussaint L╒Ouverture. While in Rome she became acquainted with fellow sculptors Harriet Hosmer and Edmonia Lewis. A commission to execute a statue of Samuel Adams (one of Massachusetts╒s contributions to Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol) prompted her to return to Europe in 1875 to supervise the cutting of the stone and to study in Paris. In 1876 she established a home and studio in Boston. Over the next three decades she executed portrait busts of Alice Freeman Palmer, Lucy Stone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary A. Livermore, Frances Willard, Harriet Martineau, George H. Palmer, William Lloyd Garrison, and others. She also carved a statue of Leif Ericson that was placed on the Commonwealth Avenue mall in 1887 and a statue of the seated Charles Sumner that was placed in Harvard Square in 1902. At the World╒s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 she exhibited a larger version of ╥Roma.╙ Anne Whitney died in Boston on January 23, 1915. styl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ " !I !I !I F 5¬ G !I ÿ 5¬ Ö !I ╙ !I ▐ ß !I µ !I ▐ ≤ !I K !I ▐ _ !I a !I ▐ k !I m !I ▐ é !I ä !I ▐ ò !I ù !I ▐ ª !I ≤ 5¬ ⌠ !I ~link ` HYPR ╙ ßHYPR µ ≤HYPR K _HYPR a kHYPR m éHYPR ä òHYPR ù ª
