Ladd, Anna Coleman (1878–1939)

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Ladd, Anna Coleman (1878–1939)

American sculptor and author. Name variations: Mrs. Maynard Ladd. Born Anna Coleman Watts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 15, 1878; died in 1939; daughter of John S. Watts and Mary (Peace) Watts; attended Mme Yeatmann's school; studied privately in Paris and Rome with Ferrari and Gallori; married Maynard Ladd (a physician), in 1905; children: Gabriella May Ladd ; Vernon Abbott Ladd.

Anna Coleman Ladd was born Anna Coleman Watts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1878. Her first special exhibition of 40 bronze sculptures took place in January 1913 at Gorham's in New York. Her bronzes reside in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, New York City's Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, and the Palazzo Bhorghese in Rome; she also did four war memorials in Massachusetts and portrait busts of Eleonora Duse, Ethel Barrymore, Raquel Meller , and Anna Pavlova . Ladd wrote several novels, including Hyeronymus Rides and The Candid Adventure (both 1912).