{{short description|American sculptor}} '''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,<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/07/obituaries/mary-tarleton-knollenberg-sculptor-88.html|title=Mary Tarleton Knollenberg, Sculptor, 88|date=7 January 1993|website=The New York Times|accessdate=20 June 2017}}</ref> and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/mary-lightfoot-tarleton/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation – Mary Lightfoot Tarleton|website=www.gf.org|accessdate=20 June 2017}}</ref> She later married historian Bernard Knollenberg, and was stepmother to his son Walter.<ref name="nytimes.com"/> During her career she was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Sculptors Guild, and the American Art Congress.<ref name="Reuter2008">{{cite book|author=F. Turner Reuter|title=Animal & sporting artists in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T4VIAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=National Sporting Library|isbn=978-0-9792441-0-0}}</ref> Later in life Knollenberg counted among her friends Walker Evans.<ref name="Rathbone2000">{{cite book|author=Belinda Rathbone|title=Walker Evans: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zIfumzouw3UC&pg=PA293|date=April 2000|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=0-618-05672-6|pages=293–}}</ref> She died in her sleep at her home in Chester, Connecticut.<ref name="nytimes.com"/> Her work was the subject of a 2014 retrospective at the Florence Griswold Museum.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/exhibitions/life-stories/|title=Life Stories in Art: Three American Women Artists in Connecticut – Florence Griswold Museum|website=florencegriswoldmuseum.org|accessdate=20 June 2017}}</ref> 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.
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