Constance Whitney Warren, Sculptor in a Man's World

Abstract

In a career lasting just eleven years before she was confined to a facility for the mentally ill, Constance Whitney Warren achieved critical success in Paris and the United States. Then she was largely forgotten until a posthumous exhibition arranged by her brother at New York’s Ferargil Gallery in 1953 spurred acquisition of her works across the country and assured her reputation. Constance Warren’s brave life is an important reminder of the emergence of women in the traditionally male-dominated field of monumental public sculpture—and elsewhere—in the early 20th century.