Caroline Peddle Ball Explained

Caroline Peddle Ball
Birth Date:November 11, 1869
Birth Place:Terre Haute, Indiana
Death Place:Harwinton, Connecticut
Nationality:American
Education:Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art Students League of New York
Field:Sculpture
Spouse: ending in divorce

Caroline Peddle Ball (November 11, 1869  - October 1, 1938)[1] was an American sculptor. She exhibited at both the 1893 Chicago Exposition and the 1900 Paris Exhibition.

Biography

Caroline Peddle was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on November 11, 1869.[2] She studied art at the Rose Polytechnic Institute, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.[3] She continued her education at the Art Students League of New York, under Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Kenyon Cox.[3] She was a member of the Guild of Arts and Crafts and of Art Students' League.

Peddle Ball worked for the Tiffany Glass Company which exhibited her design at the 1893 Chicago Exposition.[3]

In the late 1890s Peddle Ball traveled to Europe. She was in Florence, Italy from September 1895 to March 1896. She had a studio in Paris for several years beginning in May 1897.[2]

She received honorable mention at Paris Exhibition, 1900 the figure "Victory" on the United States building at the Exposition.[2] Additionally she created a memorial fountain at Flushing, Long Island, a medallion portrait of Miss Cox of Terre Haute, a monument to a child in the same city.[4]

Peddle Ball returned to the United States in 1902. She maintained a working studio for the rest of her life, specializing in small bronzes depicting children.[5]

She died in Connecticut on October 1, 1938.[2]

Family

Caroline Peddle Ball was de younger sister of John B. Peddle. She Ball married Bertrand E. Ball on October 16, 1902. They had one child. The marriage would end in divorce.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Abbott Handerson Thayer letter and drawings to Caroline Peddle Ball, [ca. 1890-1893]]. Smithsonian. 28 March 2015.
  2. Web site: Caroline Peddle Ball Collection. Vigo County Public Library. 2 January 2018. 12 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210112091715/https://www.vigo.lib.in.us/archives/inventories/art/BallCaroline.php. dead.
  3. Web site: Nichols. K.L.. Caroline Peddle Ball (1869 - 1938). Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893. 2 January 2018.
  4. Book: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement. Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.. Public domain. 1904. Houghton, Mifflin. 25–.
  5. Web site: Sculpture of a Girl with Book by Caroline Peddle Ball. Bronze Gallery. 2 January 2018.