Belle Kinney Scholz Explained

Belle Kinney Scholz
Birth Name:Belle Marshall Kinney
Birth Date:1890
Birth Place:Nashville, Tennessee
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Art Institute of Chicago
Known For:sculpture
Spouse:Leopold Scholz

Belle Marshall Kinney Scholz (1890–1959) was an American sculptor, born in Tennessee who worked and died in New York state.

Early life

Belle Kinney was one of four children born to Captain D.C. Kenny and Elizabeth Morrison Kenny. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee.[1] Belle Kinney won first prize at the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition for a bust of her father.

Sculpting career

At age 15, Belle Kinney was awarded a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied with Lorado Taft. In 1907, at age 17, she received her first commission, to sculpt the statue of Jere Baxter, organizer of the Tennessee Central Railway. Following her work at the Art Institute, Kinney maintained a studio in Greenwich Village, during which time she met Austrian-born sculptor Leopold F. Scholz (1877–1946).[2] They married in 1921, and completed several other works together, including the Victory statue in the War Memorial Building court at Legislative Plaza, Nashville (1929) and the bronze figure of Victory for the World War I Memorial in Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, New York City (1933). They also created both works representing Tennessee in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the US Capitol in Washington D.C.[3]

By 1948, Kinney was maintaining a studio in Chattanooga, Tennessee.[4] Kinney[5] died on August 27 or 28,[6] 1959 at age 69 in Boiceville, Ulster County, New York.[7]

Work

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Belle Kenny. 2010. October 15, 2015. The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. The Tennessee Historical Society and the University of Tennessee Press. Van West. Carroll.
  2. From Monument to Museum: The Role of the Parthenon in the Culture of the New South. Coleman. Christopher K.. 1990. Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 42626877. 49. 3. 139–151.
  3. Architect of the Capitol, ‘’Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States Capitol’’, United States Printing Office, Washington 1965 pp. 244, 259
  4. Historical News and Notices. June 1948. Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 42620980. 7. 2. 186–192.
  5. It is unclear when the spelling of her family name was changed to Kinney.
  6. The summary presented on 25 December 2009 in the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture gives her death date as 28 August. However, two obituaries both dated 28 August, in 2 newspapers (the New York Times, and the Toledo Blade https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19590828&id=mQUkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7wAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4627,60712&hl=en) state that she died "yesterday".
  7. News: Belle Kinney, Sculptor, Dies. August 28, 1959. New York Times. .
  8. Book: Courier, Thomas J.. The White House, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court: Historic Self-guided Tours. 2000. October 15, 2015. Arcadia Publishing. 9780738505572.
  9. Web site: Belle Kinney. 2010. October 15, 2015. The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. The Tennessee Historical Society and the University of Tennessee Press. Van West. Carroll.
  10. Historical News and Notices. September 1950. Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 42621049. 9. 3. 286–288.

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