{{Short description|American sculptor (1869–1940)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Janet Scudder | image = Janet Scudder.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|10|27}} | birth_place = Terre Haute, Indiana, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1940|06|09|1869|10|27}} | death_place = Rockport, Massachusetts, US | nationality = | known_for = Sculpture | training = Rose Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Cincinnati Art Academy, Académie Colarossi | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = | website = }} alt= Brookgreen Gardens - sculpture garden: Seated Faun by Janet Scudder, 1924. Signed on left of base|thumb|260x260px|Brookgreen Gardens - sculpture garden: ''Seated Faun'' by Janet Scudder, 1924. Signed on left of base
'''Janet ''' (October 27, 1869 – June 9, 1940), born '''Netta Deweze Frazee Scudder''', was an American sculptor and painter from Terre Haute, Indiana, who is best known for her memorial sculptures, bas-relief portraiture, and portrait medallions, as well as her garden sculptures and fountains. Her first major commission was the design for the seal of the New York Bar Association around 1896. Scudder's ''Frog Fountain'' (1901) led to the series of sculptures and fountains for which she is best known. Later commissions included a Congressional Gold Medal honoring Domício da Gama (Brazil's ambassador to the United States) and a commemorative medal for Indiana's centennial in 1916. Scudder also displayed her work at numerous national and international exhibitions in the United States and in Europe from the late 1890s to the late 1930s. Scudder's autobiography, ''Modeling My Life'', was published in 1925.
Scudder received art training at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1887–89 and 1890–91 and the Art Institute of Chicago in 1891–92. In addition, she worked as an assistant to Lorado Taft during preparations for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1892–93, and with Frederick W. MacMonnies in Paris, France in 1894–96, while continuing her art studies at the Académie Vitti and the Académie Colarossi. Scudder was a member of New York State Woman Suffrage Association, the art committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and in 1920, was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design. Scudder was named a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1925 for her relief work as a Red Cross volunteer in France during World War I.
Scudder was the recipient of several awards and prizes for her artwork, including a Bronze Medal, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; a Bronze Medal, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904; a Silver Medal, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, 1915; and a Silver Medal, International Exposition, 1937, among others. Her work is represented in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} in the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} in France, and in the United States at the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Peabody Institute, Brookgreen Gardens, the Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens, the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Indiana State Museum, the Indiana Historical Society, the Swope Art Museum, and the Richmond Art Museum.
== Early life and education == '''Netta Deweze Frazee Scudder''' was born on October 27, 1869, in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Mary (Sparks) and William Hollingshead Scudder. "Nettie" as she was called by her family was the fifth of seven children and had a childhood marred by tragedy.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book|title=American Women Artists|author=Charlotte S. Rubinstein |publisher=G. K. Hall and Company|year=1982|location=Boston, Massachusetts|pages=94}}</ref><ref name=Skirting34-36>{{cite book | author=Judith Vale Newton and Carol Ann Weiss | title = Skirting the Issue: Stories of Indiana's Historical Women Artists | publisher =Indiana Historical Society Press | year =2004 | location =Indianapolis | pages=34 and 36| isbn =0-87195-177-0}}</ref> Her father was a confectioner who was active in community affairs. Her mother died at the age of thirty-eight, when "Nettie" Scudder was five years old. Four of Scudder's siblings died before they reached adulthood. Scudder's father, a blind grandmother, and Hannah Hussey (the family maid, cook, and housekeeper) raised the surviving children. Her father later married a woman whom Scudder disliked.<ref name=Skirting34-36/><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0|url-access=registration|quote=janet scudder.|title=Notable American Women 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary|editor=Edward T. James|year=1971|publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |pages=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0/page/252 252]–53|isbn=9780674627345|language=en}}</ref>
Scudder enjoyed drawing as a child and took Saturday art classes at Rose Polytechnic Institute of Technology (present-day Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) under the direction of Professor William Ames.<ref name=":1" /> After graduating from Terre Haute High School in 1887, she enrolled at the Cincinnati Art Academy, despite the family's fragile financial resources, and soon changed her name to Janet Scudder. At Cincinnati she studied sculpture with Italian-born sculptor Louis Rebisso, as well as decorative design, woodcarving, and painting.<ref name=":12"/><ref name=":1" /><ref name=Skirting36-319>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', pp. 36–37, 319.</ref>
In 1888–89, Scudder returned home to Terre Haute, where the family's hardships continued after the death of one of her brothers, the failure of her father's business, and his death in 1888. To help with household expenses, twenty-year-old Scudder taught woodcarving at a local school, Coates College for Women. Scudder's oldest brother, who was living in Chicago, paid for her return to Cincinnati in 1890 so that she could complete her studies at the academy. In 1891, Scudder moved to Chicago to live with her brother and his family while she attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago under the direction of John Vanderpoel and Frederick Freer.<ref name=Skirting36-319/> Scudder also took classes with French-trained sculptor Lorado Taft at the Art Institute during 1893–94. While living in Paris, in the mid-1890s, she took classes at the Académie Vitti and studied drawing with painter Luc-Olivier Merson at the Académie Colarossi.<ref name=Skirting39-319>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', pp. 39 and 319.</ref>
==Career== ===Early years as a sculptor=== After her move to Chicago in 1891, Scudder intended to earn a living as a wood carver and was briefly employed in a furniture factory that produced architectural decorations.<ref name=Skirting36-319/> She left the job because the union did not permit women members. In 1892–93, Scudder found work with the sculptor Lorado Taft as one of his assistants, earning US$5 a day for her work on monumental sculptures for the upcoming World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.<ref name=":2"/><ref name=Skirting37-39>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', pp. 37 and 39.</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/11/113090672.pdf|title=Obituaries: JANET SCUDDER, SCULPTOR, DIES, 66; One of the World's Foremost Women in Field Succumbs in Summer Home FAMOUS FOR FOUNTAINS Works Shown in 14 Museums --Had Lived in Paris for 45 Years--Also a Painter Returned Here Last Fall Worked at Chicago Fair of '93 Some of Her Sculptures Aided French in Two Wars | newspaper =The New York Times | location =New York, New York | page=25| date =June 11, 1940 |accessdate=August 20, 2019|language=en}}</ref> (Scudder was one of a group of women sculptors and assistants working for Taft who were nicknamed the White Rabbits.<ref name=":12"/> Scudder was also commissioned to create a figure of ''Justice'' for the exposition's Illinois Building and modeled the ''Nymph of Wabash'' sculpture for the Indiana Building at the fair.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=slQEFSrX3ooC&q=%22janet+scudder%22&pg=PA525|title=American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born between 1865 and 1885|last1=N.Y.)|first1=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York |last2=Dimmick|first2=Lauretta|last3=Hassler|first3=Donna J.|date=1999|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=9780870999239|language=en}}</ref> For her work at the exposition, Scudder won a bronze medal, as well as US$1,000 from the citizens of Terre Haute, who expected to display her ''Nymph'' sculpture at the city's library.<ref name=Skirting39-319/>
After seeing Frederick W. MacMonnies's fountain "the Barge of State" at the World's Fair, Scudder decided to go to Paris in 1894, hoping to study with him. Scudder traveled to France with Zulime Taft (Lorado Taft's sister) and persuaded MacMonnies to hire her. At the age of twenty-five, Scudder became the first woman he employed at his atelier.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=Skirting39-319/><ref name=":1"/> Scudder assisted MacMonnies on projects such as his ''Shakespeare'' for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in addition to studying at the Académie Vitti and at the Académie Colarossi.<ref name=":2"/><ref name=":1"/><ref>{{citation|title=Vitti, ??-??|url=http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/people/biog/?bid=Vitti_1&initial=V|ref={{harvid|Vitti, ??-??}}|work=The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler|publisher=University of Glasgow|accessdate=July 17, 2017}}</ref> Scudder abruptly left MacMonnies's Paris studio in 1896, after a colleague gave her the inaccurate impression that he disapproved of her work. She returned to the United States and tried unsuccessfully to find work as a sculptor in Augustus Saint-Gaudens's studio in New York City.<ref name=Skirting40>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', p. 40.</ref>
===First major commission=== Through her friendship with fellow art student Matilda Auchincloss Brownell, whom she met during her trip home from France, and Brownell's father, Silas B. Brownell, the secretary of the New York Bar Association from 1878 to 1916, Scudder secured her first major commission in 1894. The US$750 she received to design a seal for the New York Bar Association provided her with the funds move to a better location in the city. The project also led to opportunities for steady work making plaques, portrait medallions, architectural ornamentation, and funerary urns, as well as sculpting.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=Skirting41-42>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', pp. 41–42.</ref><ref>{{cite web| title =Presidents and Officers, Former Association Officers | publisher =New York City Bar | url=https://www.nycbar.org/about/governance/presidents-and-officers | accessdate =August 9, 2019}} See also:{{cite book | editor=Jill Ker Conway | title =Written by Herself, Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology | publisher =Vintage Books | year =1992 | location =New York | pages =365 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=S_xvDwAAQBAJ&q=matilda+brownell&pg=PA365 | isbn =0679736336}}</ref> Scudder was especially adept at bas-relief portraiture, which became a specialty.<ref name=Skirting41-42/>
===Return to Europe=== In 1898 Scudder returned to Paris for more training, resuming drawing classes at Académie Colorossi.<ref name=":2"/> Accompanied by Brownell and Brownell's maid, the three women spent several years living in a home in Paris's Montparnasse neighborhood. Scudder and Brownell also spent the winter of 1899–1900 in Italy, where Scudder found fresh inspiration in Florence's ornamental fountain statuary and Italian Renaissance sculpture, especially Donatello's sculptures in the Bargello museum and the cherubic figures of Verrocchio in the Palazzo Vecchio.<ref name=":1" /><ref>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', pp. 34, 36, and 41–42.</ref>
===Frog Fountain=== thumb|Frog Fountain. Bronze, 1901. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
After her visit to Italy, Scudder returned to Paris in 1900 and began making amusing sculptures and fountains featuring lively children, which she called her "water babies." Beginning with ''Frog Fountain'' (1901), a figure of a young boy looking down upon frogs, Scudder launched her career as a prolific and successful maker of ornamental garden fountains and sculptures. Scudder brought ''Frog Fountain'' to New York City, where architect Stanford White bought a bronzed cast of it for his estate on Long Island.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=Skirting41-42/>
''Frog Fountain'' was her first work in a series of ornamental garden sculptures. Scudder produced five versions of this fountain, with the last one made for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.<ref name=Skirting41-42/><ref name=MetSculpture>The Met purchased their bronze ''Frog Fountain'' from Scudder at a generous discount for its permanent collections in 1906. See: Dimmick and Hassler, ''American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art''.</ref><ref name=Tolles526>{{Cite book | editor=Thayer Tolles |title=American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885 |page=526| volume =2 | year =2001 | location =New York |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=slQEFSrX3ooC&q=%22janet+scudder%22&pg=PA525 |isbn=0870999230}}</ref> One of the other bronze versions of ''Frog Fountain'' made for a garden in the eastern United States was presented to the Woman's Department Club of Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1928. When the group's clubhouse was sold in 1964, the sculpture was donated to the Indianapolis Museum of Art.<ref>''Frog Fountain'' was installed on the main floor of the Woman's Department Club of Indianapolis clubhouse at 1702 N. Meridian Street in honor of the club's founder and past president, Mrs. Edward J. Robison. See: {{cite book | author=Jean Jose | title =Sharing A Heritage: A Catalogue of the Fine Art Collection and History of the Woman's Department Club of Indianapolis| publisher = Woman’s Department Club of Indianapolis | year =2001| location =Indianapolis, Indiana | pages=26, 28–29 | oclc=57344767}}</ref> Two other bronze versions are on the grounds of private residences in Stonington, Connecticut, and Bar Harbor, Maine, but the original plaster of ''Frog Fountain'' has been destroyed.<ref name=MetSculpture/><ref name=Tolles526/>
Numerous smaller versions of the sculpture ({{convert|6|in|cm}}, ({{convert|12.25 |in|cm}}, and ({{convert|18.5 |in|cm}} tall) were cast in bronze and intended for parlor or fountain pieces. In 1905 Stanford White commissioned a marble version of ''Frog Fountain'' with cattails for the James L. Breese estate home in Southampton, New York, Now called Whitefield Estate (Condominiums) but the marble Frog Baby fountain sculpture's location is unclear.<ref name=MetSculpture/><ref name=Tolles526/>
===Other notable works=== Scudder contributed a decorative figure representing ''Music'' to the 1900 Paris Exposition, and created other versions of garden fountains, most notably ''Tortoise Fountain'' (1908) and ''Young Diana'', the latter of which earned an honorable mention at the Salon (Paris) of 1911.<ref name=":1"/><ref name=":2"/> Stanford White, who became a personal friend of hers, regularly ordered sculptures from Scudder until his death in 1906. She created at least thirty fountains as commissions for the homes of wealthy Americans. These included ''Piping Pan'' (1911) for John D. Rockefeller, ''Shell Fountain'' (1913) for Edith Rockefeller McCormick, and other works for Henry Huntington.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=Skirting41-42/>
In addition to commissions for sculptures and decorative fountains, Scudder designed a Congressional Gold Medal dated March 4, 1915, to honor Domício da Gama (Brazil's ambassador to the United States) for his services as a mediator between the United States and the leaders of opposing forces in Mexico.<ref>{{cite web| title =[MEDAL, COMMEMORATIVE] : From the Congress of the United States of America to His Excellency the Ambassador of Brazil | publisher = Indiana Historical Society | url =https://indianahistorylibrary.worldcat.org/title/medal-commemorative-from-the-congress-of-the-united-states-of-america-to-his-excellency-the-ambassador-of-brazil/oclc/880650717&referer=brief_results | accessdate =August 12, 2019}}</ref> Scudder also received a commission from the Indiana Historical Commission to design a commemorative medal for Indiana's centennial in 1916 (the one hundredth anniversary of its admittance as the nineteenth state in the Union).<ref>{{cite journal| author=Susan L. Sutton| title =Images of Indiana| journal =Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History | volume =28| issue =1 | page =56 | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | location =Indianapolis | date =Winter 2016}} Also: {{cite journal| title =Images of Indiana | journal =Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History | volume =28 | issue =1 | page=56 | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | location =Indianapolis | date =Winter 2016}}</ref>
===Exhibitions=== During the early twentieth century, the height of her career, Scudder's works were exhibited in numerous public museums and at private galleries. Her first solo art show was held in 1913 at Theodore B. Starr galleries in New York City.<ref name=":2" /> In addition, Scudder's work was exhibited at several major national and international expositions during her lifetime: the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago), 1893; Salon (Paris), 1899–1901, 1905, 1908, 1910–14, 1922, 1926, 1932, 1939; the Exposition Universelle (Paris), 1900; Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo, New York), 1901; Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, Missouri), 1904; American Pavilion, International Exposition (Rome, Italy), 1911; and the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition (San Francisco, California), 1915.<ref name=Skirting319-20>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', pp. 319–20.</ref> She also exhibited at the Hoosier Salon in Indiana in 1926, 1927, 1933, and 1934; the International Exposition (Paris), 1937; and at the 1939 New York World's Fair.<ref name=":2"/><ref name=Skirting319-20/><ref name=Tradition3-293>Newton and Weiss, ''A Grand Tradition'', pp. 3 and 293.</ref> Her work was also part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921616 |title=Janet Scudder |work=Olympedia |accessdate=29 July 2020}}</ref>
==Other interests== Scudder was a feminist and women's suffrage advocate who frequently marched in parades and demonstrations involved with women's issues. She became involved in women's suffrage movement in New York in 1915 and was a member of New York State Woman Suffrage Association.<ref name=Skirting321>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', p. 321.</ref> She was also a member of the art committee of the National American Women Suffrage Association.<ref name=":2" /> Scudder opposed separate exhibitions for male and female artists and disliked the separate sex and gender references used to describe artists. A ''New York Times'' feature article about Scudder in 1912 described her as a woman who "disdains her gender" and quoted her critical comments about women artists who were not serious about the profession. Scudder was more positive in her assessment of women's progress, arguing that women were as capable as men. She believed that women artists were strong enough to handle the physical demands of the work.<ref name=Grasso>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=804zDwAAQBAJ&q=%22janet+scudder%22&pg=PA104|title=Equal Under the Sky: Georgia O'Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism|author=Linda M. Grasso |year=2017|publisher=University of New Mexico Press|isbn=9780826358820|location=Albuquerque|language=en}}</ref>
During World War I, Scudder was active in relief work in France as well as the United States.<ref name=":2"/> She offered her home at Ville d'Avray to the French government, who used it as a hospital. Scudder served as a Red Cross volunteer while renting an apartment in Paris, but returned to New York City before end of the war. She also continued to produce garden statuary during the war years. After an armistice was declared in 1918, Scudder divided her time between her studios in New York and in France.<ref name=":1"/><ref name=Skirting44>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', p. 44.</ref>
Scudder was named a Chevalier (knight) of the French Legion of Honor in 1925 for her wartime service to France.<ref name=":2" /> Her sculpture, ''Victory'', also known as ''Feminine Victory'' or ''Femina Victrix'', which symbolized women's contributions during World War I, served as a model for a proposed National Suffrage Monument in Washington, D.C. In addition, it won a US$300 prize at the Hoosier Salon exhibition in her home state of Indiana in 1926 for Outstanding Piece of Sculpture.<ref name=Skirting321/><ref>{{cite book | author=Judith Vale Newton and Carol Weiss | title =A Grand Tradition: The Arts and Artists of the Hoosier Salon, 1925–1990 | publisher =Hoosier Salon Patrons Association | year =1993 | location =Indianapolis, Indiana | page=293 | isbn =9780963836007}}</ref>
==Personal life== A frequent traveler between New York and France, Scudder maintained art studios in New York City and in Paris, but preferred to live in Paris<ref>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', p. 42.</ref> where her social circle grew to include Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Mildred Aldrich, and Eva Mudocci.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l5lWKk05X-UC&q=%22janet+scudder%22&pg=PA392|title=Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science|author=Steven Meyer|year=2001|publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stamford, California |isbn=9780804749305|language=en}}</ref> After American sculptor Malvina Hoffman arrived in Paris around 1910, she worked for a time as Scudder's studio assistant.<ref name=Dearinger>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHH45aYubp4C&q=scudder&pg=PR20|title=Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925|editor=David Bernard Dearinger |volume=1 |page=276 |year=2004 |publisher=Hudson Hills Press |location=Manchester, Vermont |isbn=9781555950293|language=en}}</ref>
In 1913 Scudder purchased a home at Ville d'Avray on the outskirts of Paris<ref>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', pp. 42 and 44.</ref> and for several years made it her primary residence. Author Marion Cothren was Scudder's partner in Paris and New York during the final years of her life.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=Skirting45-321>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', pp. 45 and 321.</ref>
==Later years == By the 1920s, Scudder's sculptural forms became more "reserved," "rigid," and "stylized," in contrast to the "active, dynamic composition" of her earlier and best-known work.<ref name=":1"/><ref name=Skirting44/> Despite this major change in her style, and her most productive years had passed, Scudder continued to sculpt and exhibit her work in the United States and in Europe. In her later years, but she also pursued painting, color theory, and for a brief time, architecture. Her autobiography, ''Modeling My Life'', was published in 1925.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=Skirting321/>
Scudder spent most of the last decade of her life in Paris, where she painted and continued to sculpt. In 1939, she returned to New York to reside with her companion, author Marion Benedict Cothren.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=Skirting45-321/>
==Death and legacy== Scudder died of pneumonia on June 9, 1940, at the age of seventy, while vacationing in Rockport, Massachusetts.<ref name=":1"/><ref name=":02" />
In 1912, a feature article in the ''New York Times'' described Scudder as "one of the foremost woman sculptors of America."<ref name=Grasso/> She is one of the first Americans to focus on bronze ornamental garden fountains. In addition to sculptures, Scudder also produced portrait medallions, architectural ornamentation, and funerary urns and painted in oil.<ref name=":1"/><ref name=Skirting321/>
Scudder's art has been displayed at numerous national and international exhibitions from 1893 to 1937, as well as at public museums in the United States. These include the National Academy of Design, New York City; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Cincinnati Art Museum; Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, Indiana; Art Institute of Chicago; John Herron Art Institute and Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Dallas Art Association; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis Institute of Art; San Diego Museum of Art. She also exhibited her work at shows for the Architectural League of New York, the National Sculpture Society, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Hoosier Salon, and at private galleries.<ref name=Skirting319-20/>
==Honors and awards== *1893, Bronze Medal, World's Columbian Exposition<ref name=Skirting320>Newton and Weiss, ''Skirting the Issue'', p. 320.</ref> *1898, Honorable Mention, Sun Dial Competition<ref name=Skirting320/> *1904, Bronze Medal, Louisiana Purchase Exposition<ref name=Skirting320/> *1911, Honorable Mention, Paris Salon<ref name=Skirting320/> *1915, Silver Medal, Panama–Pacific International Exposition<ref name=Skirting320/> *1920, elected an associate of the National Academy of Design.<ref name=":2" /> *1925, named a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor for her relief work during World War I<ref name=":2" /> *1937, Silver Medal, International Exposition, Paris<ref name=Skirting320/> *Scudder is the first woman to have her work purchased by the Musée du Luxembourg.<ref name=Skirting321/> *A portrait of Scudder in the National Academy of Design collection was painted by Margaret Bucknell Pecorini.<ref name=Dearinger/>
== Selected works == <gallery> File:Seated Faun by Janet Scudder, 1924, bronze - Brooklyn Museum - DSC09631.JPG|Seated Faun, 1924 File:Bird Bath by Janet Scudder 1921.png|Bird Bath, 1921 File:Master Billy Fahnestock MET LC-09 20 4.jpg|Portrait medallion: Master Billy Fahnestock File:Royal Parsons MET AW 09 20 1.jpg|Bas-relief portrait: Royal Parsons File:Helen Seely MET AW 09 20 3.jpg|Bas-relief portrait: Helen Seely File:Mildred Barnes MET AW 09 20 2.jpg|Bas-relief: Mildred Barnes </gallery>
===Publications=== ''Modeling My Life'' (1925), an autobiography<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Scudder |first1=Janet |title=Modeling My Life |date=1925 |publisher=Harcourt, Brace |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/modelingmylife008762mbp/page/n9/mode/2up |accessdate=20 February 2020}}</ref>
==Public art collections== Scudder's work is represented in the collections of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago, the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Maryland; Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina; the Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Indiana State Museum and the Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis; Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana; the Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, Indiana; the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (transferred from Musée du Luxembourg), Paris; and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.<ref name=Tradition3-293/><ref name=Skirting320/>
==Notes== <references />
==References== * {{cite book | editor=Conway, Jill Ker | title =Written by Herself, Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology | publisher =Vintage Books | year =1992 | location =New York | pages =365 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=S_xvDwAAQBAJ&q=matilda+brownell&pg=PA365 | isbn =0679736336}} * {{Cite book|editor=Dearinger, David Bernard |title=Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925|volume=1 |page=276 |year=2004 |publisher=Hudson Hills Press |location=Manchester, Vermont |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHH45aYubp4C&q=scudder&pg=PR20 |isbn=9781555950293 |language=en}} * {{Cite book |author1=Dimmick, Lauretta |author2=Hassler, Donna J. |title=American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born between 1865 and 1885|location=New York|date=1999|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=slQEFSrX3ooC&q=%22janet+scudder%22&pg=PA525 |isbn=9780870999239|language=en}} * {{Cite book |author=Grasso, Linda M. |title=Equal Under the Sky: Georgia O'Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism|publisher=University of New Mexico Press|year=2017 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=804zDwAAQBAJ&q=%22janet+scudder%22&pg=PA104 |isbn=9780826358820 |location=Albuquerque|language=en}} * {{Cite book|editor=James, Edward T. |title=Notable American Women 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVLOhGt1BX0C&q=%22janet+scudder%22&pg=RA2-PA252 |year=1971|publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University | volume =3 | location =Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages =252–53|isbn=9780674627345 |language=en}} * {{cite book | author=Jose, Jean | title =Sharing A Heritage: A Catalogue of the Fine Art Collection and History of the Woman's Department Club of Indianapolis| publisher = Woman’s Department Club of Indianapolis | year =2001| location =Indianapolis, Indiana | oclc=57344767}} * {{cite web| title =[MEDAL, COMMEMORATIVE] : From the Congress of the United States of America to His Excellency the Ambassador of Brazil | publisher = Indiana Historical Society | url =https://indianahistorylibrary.worldcat.org/title/medal-commemorative-from-the-congress-of-the-united-states-of-america-to-his-excellency-the-ambassador-of-brazil/oclc/880650717&referer=brief_results | accessdate =August 12, 2019}} * {{Cite book|last=Meyer|first=Steven |title=Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science |year=2001|publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stamford, California |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l5lWKk05X-UC&q=%22janet+scudder%22&pg=PA392 |isbn=9780804749305|language=en}} * {{cite book | author=Newton, Judith Vale |author2=Weiss, Carol | title =A Grand Tradition: The Arts and Artists of the Hoosier Salon, 1925–1990 | publisher =Hoosier Salon Patrons Association | year =1993 | location =Indianapolis, Indiana | page=293 | isbn =9780963836007}} * {{cite book | author1=Newton, Judith Vale |author2=Weiss, Carol Ann | title =Skirting the Issue: Stories of Indiana's Historical Women Artists | publisher =Indiana Historical Society Press | year =2004 | location =Indianapolis | isbn =0-87195-177-0}} * {{Cite news|title=Obituaries: JANET SCUDDER, SCULPTOR, DIES, 66; One of the World's Foremost Women in Field Succumbs in Summer Home FAMOUS FOR FOUNTAINS Works Shown in 14 Museums --Had Lived in Paris for 45 Years--Also a Painter Returned Here Last Fall Worked at Chicago Fair of '93 Some of Her Sculptures Aided French in Two Wars | newspaper =The New York Times | location =New York, New York | page=25| date =June 11, 1940|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/11/113090672.pdf |accessdate=October 21, 2017 |language=en}} (subscription required) * {{cite web| title =Presidents and Officers, Former Association Officers | publisher =New York City Bar | url=https://www.nycbar.org/about/governance/presidents-and-officers| accessdate =August 9, 2019}} * {{Cite book |author=Rubinstein, Charlotte S. |title=American Women Artists |publisher=G.K. Hall and Company |year=1982 |location=Boston, Massachusetts}} * {{cite journal| author=Sutton, Susan L.| title =Images of Indiana| journal =Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History | volume =28| issue =1 | page =56 | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | location =Indianapolis | date =Winter 2016}} * {{Cite book | editor=Tolles, Thayer |author1=Hassler, Donna J. |author2=Marter, Joan M. |title=American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=slQEFSrX3ooC&q=%22janet+scudder%22&pg=PA525| page=525| volume =2 | year =2001 | location =New York|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press|isbn=0870999230|language=en}} * {{citation|title=Vitti, ??-?? |url=http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/people/biog/?bid=Vitti_1&initial=V|ref={{harvid|Vitti, ??-??}}|work=The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler|publisher=University of Glasgow|accessdate=July 17, 2017}}
==Further reading== * {{cite book | author=Conner, Janis | author2=Joel Rosenkranz | title =Rediscoveries in American Sculpture, Studio Works 1893–1939 | publisher =University of Texas | year =1989 | location =Austin }} * {{cite book | editor=Opitz, Glenn B. | title =Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers | publisher =Apollo Book | year =1986 | location =Poughkeepsie, New York }} * {{cite book | author=Proske, Beatrice Gilman | title =Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture | publisher =Brookgreen Gardens | year =1968 | location =South Carolina }}
==External links== *[http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll1/id/1896/rec/303 ''Paintings by Janet Scudder''], announcement for an exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF) * {{FrenchSculptureCensus}} *[http://cdm16797.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/V0002/id/3553 Bronze copy of Congressional Gold Medal for Domicio Da Gama], Indiana Historical Society collections, Indianapolis *[http://cdm16797.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16797coll4/id/37/rec/4 Indiana Medal for the State’s Centennial], Indiana Historical Society collections, Indianapolis
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