Animal sculptor Grace Mott Johnson was born in New York City in 1882. She studied sculpture at the Art Students League in New York City where her teachers were famous sculptors, Gutzon Borglum, James Earle Fraser, and Hermon MacNeill.
Johnson usually sculpted her animal subjects from memory rather than using models, and bas relief with minimal surface detail was a common work method for her. However, she often visited farms and circuses to observe animals in motion.
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Grace Johnson is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
New York Armory Show of 1913
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Taos Pre 1940
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