Canadian sculptor Sybil Kennedy is among the most important women sculptors in Canadian history. She studied painting at the Art Association of Montreal before moving to New York in 1925. There, Kennedy focused more on studying sculpture at the Art Students League in New York. Later she worked in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Kennedy won the Huntington Prize in 1941 from the National Association of Women Artists, and the Amelia Peabody Prize in 1948. Both figurative and stylized, her sculptures seek the inner essence of her subjects, tending to feature distorted proportions and natural forms imbued with emotion. Her works had an influence from both cubism and modernism, and showed a fine sensitivity to movement and fluidity.
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