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|  Sculptor Eleanor Mary Mellon was born in 1894 in Narberth, Pennsylvania. She was a member of the American Federation of Arts, Washington, D.C., and National Sculpture Society, in New York City. She was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design, in New York City, in 1938, an Academician in 1950.
In 1931, the Society of Washington Artists awarded her a bronze medal, and in 1932, she received an honorable mention from the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, New York City. The National Academy of Design, New York City, also awarded her the Barnet Prize. Mellon's work is in the collection of Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina.
Mellon studied with Charles Grafly, Edward McCartan, Harriet Frishmuth, V.D. Salvatore, Robert Aitken and A.A. Weinman. Her work was exhibited at the National Sculpture Society and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.
Mellon appears in two publications of the American Federation of Arts: volume 28 of the American Art Annual, published in 1932; and the 8th edition of Who's Who in American Art, published in 1962.
Eleanor Mary Mellon died in 1979.
Source:
Jules and Nancy Heller, "North American Women Artists of the 20th Century"
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