 Gordon (Mrs.) Ludlam is primarily known as Eugenie Frederica Shonnard
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One of the pioneering American women sculptors of animal subjects, she initially studied painting with Alphonse Mucha, but her interest in sculpture began with instruction from James Earle Fraser.
In 1911, she went to Paris where her work was critiqued by Antoine Bourdelle and Auguste Rodin. Her first works were portrait reliefs, and then she shifted to animals, primarily in stone, including the elongated forms of wading birds. In her bird sculptures, she reduced the forms to simple cont (showing 500 of 833 characters). |
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