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| Born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, Charlotte Dunwiddie became a sculptor of animals, especially thoroughbred horses, in realist style. She also created numerous medals for equestrian events. In 1966, her horse figure "Pegasus" received the gold medal from the American Artists Professional League, and in 1970, she won a gold medal from the Pen and Brush Club for her equestrian portrait of General George S. Patton, World War II military hero.
Dunwiddie was raised with horses as her father owned racehorses as well as a race track. She studied sculpture with Wilhelm Otto in Germany at the Berlin Academy of Fine Art. Widowed twice, she traveled extensively including to Madrid where she studied with Mariano Benillure y Gil, and Buenos Aires as a student of Alberto Lagos. In 1956, she came to the United States where she received numerous awards including from the National Sculpture Society, the Pen and Brush Club, and the National Academy of Design which she served as secretary from 1966 to 1969.
She also became the first woman to be elected President of the National Sculpture Society. The Pen and Brush Club of New York, which she served as President from 1966 to 1970, has created the Charlotte Dunwiddie Memorial Award in her honor.
Source:
Donald Martin Reynolds, "Masters of American Sculpture"
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Note submitted November 2004 from Charles Lemons, Curator of the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor in Fort Knox, Kentucky:
The Patton Museum holds the Charlotte Dunwiddie bronze equestrian statue of General George S. Patton Jr. This is the statue for which she won a gold medal from the Pen and Brush Club in 1970, and it came to us in 1997. |
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