Edith Woodman Burroughs American, 1871-1916 Edgar Allan Poe, 1909 Signed Edith Woodman Burroughs, dated MCMIX, inscribed as titled and with the poet's birth year MDCCCIX, and stamped with foundry mark R. B. W. and with the Grolier Club seal Bronze with brown patina, in a wood frame Diameter 7 inches, overall 11 x 11 inches This portrait of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), commemorating the centenary of his birth, was commissioned by the Grolier Club of New York and bears the Club's icon. Founded in 1884 by Robert Hoe and eight fellow bibliophiles, the Grolier Club, named for French scholar Jean Grolier, was created "to foster the study, collecting, and appreciation of books and works on paper, their art, history, production, and commerce." Edith Woodman Burroughs studied sculpture at the Art Students League in New York City under Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Kenyon Cox and after three years she produced decorative figures in bronze, some for Tiffany & Company. The League awarded her a fellowship to study in Paris for two years, where she met the painter Bryson Burroughs whom she married in 1893. They returned to New York City, and she began creating small bronzes of female figures, such as Circe (1907; Newark Museum, NJ) and portraits such as one of John La Farge (1908; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). Following a trip to Paris in 1909 and exposure to Aristide Maillol's work, she modeled life-sized figures in stone. In 1915 she had a one-person exhibition in New York City of thirty-nine works, which included figures for a fountain at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. She died the following year. C
Edith Woodman Burroughs American, 1871-1916 Edgar Allan Poe, 1909 Signed Edith Woodman Burroughs, dated MCMIX, inscribed as titled and with the poet's birth year MDCCCIX, and stamped with foundry mark R. B. W. and with the Grolier Club seal Bronze with brown patina, in a wood frame Diameter 7 inches, overall 11 x 11 inches This portrait of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), commemorating the centenary of his birth, was commissioned by the Grolier Club of New York and bears the Club's icon. Founded in 1884 by Robert Hoe and eight fellow bibliophiles, the Grolier Club, named for French scholar Jean Grolier, was created "to foster the study, collecting, and appreciation of books and works on paper, their art, history, production, and commerce." Edith Woodman Burroughs studied sculpture at the Art Students League in New York City under Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Kenyon Cox and after three years she produced decorative figures in bronze, some for Tiffany & Company. The League awarded her a fellowship to study in Paris for two years, where she met the painter Bryson Burroughs whom she married in 1893. They returned to New York City, and she began creating small bronzes of female figures, such as Circe (1907; Newark Museum, NJ) and portraits such as one of John La Farge (1908; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). Following a trip to Paris in 1909 and exposure to Aristide Maillol's work, she modeled life-sized figures in stone. In 1915 she had a one-person exhibition in New York City of thirty-nine works, which included figures for a fountain at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. She died the following year. C
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