Harriet Frishmuth

After her parents were divorced, American artist Harriet Frishmuth spent her youth with her mother in Europe. She initially studied in Paris, spent two years in Berlin and then completed her studies in New York at the Art Students League. Her first teacher in Paris was the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin. In New York, she improved her knowledge of anatomy by attending dissections at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Frishmuth described herself as an artist of modernity and produced small bronze figures and monumental works in public places. The Great Depression of the 1930s led to the closure of her New York studios and she went back to Philadelphia. She moved to Connecticut in 1967, where she eventually died at 99-years-old. She was a member of several societies and institutions including the National Academy of Design.