{{short description|American sculptor}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Waldo Story | image = Thomas Waldo Story.png | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Thomas Waldo Story | birth_date = {{Birth date|1854|12|09}} | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|10|23|1854|12|09}} | death_place = New York, New York | death_cause = | other_names = | occupation = Artist, writer | father = William Wetmore Story | spouse = {{Plainlist| * {{Marriage|Ada Maud Broadwood|1883}} * {{Marriage|Bessie Abott|1912}} }} | children = | awards = | education = }} '''Thomas Waldo Story''' (December 9, 1854 – October 23, 1915) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet and literary editor, living for most of his life in Rome, Italy.
==Life== [[File:Thomas Waldo Story, Fountain of Love (1897, detail of top figures, Cliveden, Taplow, UK) - 20101003.jpg|thumb|Central figures in the ''Fountain of Love'', Cliveden, sculpted by Story]] Story was born in Paris in 1854 to the sculptor William Wetmore Story,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OmAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA319 | title=American Art Annual, Volume 13 | publisher=MacMillan Company | author=Levy, Florence Nightingale | year=1917 | pages=319}}</ref> son of early Supreme Court justice Joseph Story.<ref>Mary E. Phillips, [https://archive.org/details/williamwetmore00phil/page/118 ''Reminiscences of William Wetmore Story''], Chicago, 1897, p. 118; ''The Browning's Correspondence'', online edition, [https://www.browningscorrespondence.com/biographical-sketches/?nameId=1760 William Wetmore Story].</ref>
While his parents lived in Rome, Waldo was educated in England at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford. Afterwards, he moved to Rome himself where he shared a studio with his father and, after the latter's death in 1895, took over his lease of an apartment in the Palazzo Barberini.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/jstor-25588717/page/n1 Waldo Story's obituary] in American Art News, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct. 30, 1915), p. 4.</ref>
In 1883 Waldo Story married Ada Maud Broadwood (1856–1932), the eldest child of Thomas Capel Broadwood and Mary Davidson Hennin.<ref>Ada Broadwood's paternal grandparents were James Shudi Broadwood and Margaret Schaw Stewart, her maternal grandparents were Alfred Hennin, an American lawyer and jurist in New Orleans, and Ann Maria Davison. Ada Maud Broadwood's great grandfather was John Broadwood who founded the London firm of John Broadwood and Sons, maker of pianofortes, with Burkat Shudi.</ref> In 1912, he was married for a second time to opera singer Bessie Pickens Abott.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bessie Abott Wed To T. Waldo Story. Famous American Opera Singer Married Sculptor Some Time Ago in Europe. |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F01E5DF133CE633A25754C2A96F9C946396D6CF |work=New York Times |date=September 27, 1912 |access-date=2009-12-06 }}</ref>
Waldo Story frequently stayed in England where he was friends with James Abbott McNeill Whistler.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050323132214/http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Stor_W.htm Biography of Story] at the Centre for Whistler studies.</ref> He is best known for his ''Fountain of Love'' in the grounds of Cliveden, Buckinghamshire.<ref name="Thomas Waldo Story">{{cite web|title=Thomas Waldo Story|url=http://www.jansantiques.com/Lot/jac1047.html|publisher=Jan's & Company|access-date=8 February 2014}}</ref>
He died at his home in New York City in 1915.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sculptor Story |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/774458672.html?dids=774458672:774458672&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+25%2C+1915&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=SCULPTOR+STORY+HAD+INTERESTING+CAREER&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024060437/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/774458672.html?dids=774458672:774458672&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+25,+1915&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=SCULPTOR+STORY+HAD+INTERESTING+CAREER&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 24, 2012 |quote=Thomas Waldo Story, sculptor of wide renown and husband of Bessie Abott, the American opera singer, who died Saturday morning at his home, No. 133 East Sixtieth street, New York, was 50 years old. He leaves his first wife and second wife and two daughters. |work=New York Times |date=October 25, 1915 |access-date=2009-12-06 }}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Mrs. Waldo Story.jpg|''Mrs. Ada Maud Story'' by John Singer Sargent, 1883 File:Thomas Waldo Story, Fountain of Love (1897, Cliveden, Taplow, UK) - 20051029.jpg|Fountain of Love File:Ascott House fountain.png|Sculpture by Thomas Waldo Story at the Ascott House, Buckinghamshire </gallery>
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