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Birth
1873 (Oshkosh, Wisconsin)
Death
1916 (New York City)
Lived/Active
New York
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Cornish Colony
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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Biography of Helen Farnsworth Mears
by Mary Hiles
Helen
Farnsworth Mears was born in Oshkosh in 1871 and went on to gain
national recognition. Her works are in the Smithsonian (bust of medical
pioneer Dr. William Morton), New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
(bas-relief of composer Edward MacDowell) and other national and state
collections. Her nine-foot statue of temperance leader Frances Willard
is the only sculpture of a woman by a woman in the Hall of Statuary in
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