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| Born in Paris, France, Molly Coolidge was a woodcarver, furniture maker, photographer, ceramicist, and painter. She had aristocratic Boston blood as her grandfather was Francis Parkman, the first president of the St. Botolph Club, and her father was a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts. As a teenager, she began photography, portraying the old-fashioned surroundings of the family summer home in New Hampshire.
She was primarily interested in three-dimensional media, working in wood and creating small-scale, carved objects in the style of the Arts and Crafts movement. She studied sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston with Bela Pratt and design with Joseph Lindon Smith. She also took academic classes at Radcliffe.
She exhibited at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston, but ceased exhibiting in 1905 when she married Boston lawyer John Forbes Perkins. However she continued with her woodworking and remained a member of the Society of Arts and Crafts until 1927, but mainly made objects for her friends and family. She carved and decorated most of the woodwork of the home she shared with her husband in Milton, Massachusetts.
Source: A Studio of Her Own by Erica Hirschler |
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