Mary Tarleton Knollenberg Explained

Mary Lightfoot Tarleton Knollenberg (June 9, 1904 – December 21, 1992) was an American sculptor.

Born in Great Neck, Long Island, Knollenberg was a student of Mahonri Young and Heinz Warneke,[1] and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933.[2] She later married historian Bernard Knollenberg, and was stepmother to his son Walter.[1] During her career she was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Sculptors Guild, and the American Art Congress.[3] Later in life Knollenberg counted among her friends Walker Evans.[4] She died in her sleep at her home in Chester, Connecticut.[1] Her work was the subject of a 2014 retrospective at the Florence Griswold Museum.[5] Her papers and journals, along with diaries of her artist-writer mother, Mary Livingston Tarleton née Plympton, are in the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mary Tarleton Knollenberg, Sculptor, 88. 7 January 1993. The New York Times. 20 June 2017.
  2. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation – Mary Lightfoot Tarleton. www.gf.org. 20 June 2017.
  3. Book: F. Turner Reuter. Animal & sporting artists in America. 2008. National Sporting Library. 978-0-9792441-0-0.
  4. Book: Belinda Rathbone. Walker Evans: A Biography. April 2000. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 0-618-05672-6. 293–.
  5. Web site: Life Stories in Art: Three American Women Artists in Connecticut – Florence Griswold Museum. florencegriswoldmuseum.org. 20 June 2017.