Belle Kinney Scholz
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Belle Marshall Kinney Scholz (1890–1959) was an American sculptor, born in Tennessee, worked and died in New York state.
In 1897, at age 7, she won first prize at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition for a bust of her father. In 1905, at age 15, she was awarded a scholarship to study at the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied with Lorado Taft. At age 17 (1907), she received her first commission to sculpt the statue of Jere Baxter, organizer of the Tennessee Central Railway. In 1921 Kinney married Austrian-born sculptor Leopold Scholz (1877–1946), and with him completed several other works, including the Victory statue in the War Memorial Building court at Legislative Plaza, Nashville (1929) and the bronze figure of Victory for the World War I Memorial in Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, New York City (1933). They also created both works representing Tennessee in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the US Capitol in Washington D.C..[1]
Kinney died at age 69 in Boiceville, Ulster County, New York.[2]
Work
- Richard Owen bust, Indianapolis 1913 (replica at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana)
- Women of the Confederacy, Jackson, Mississippi 1917
- Tennessee Monument to the Women of the Confederacy, Nashville, Tennessee 1926
- Jere Baxter statue, Jere Baxter School, Nashville, 1907
- Andrew Jackson statue, National Statuary Hall Collection, U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C., 1927
- John Sevier statue, National Statuary Hall Collection, U.S. Capitol, 1931
- General Joseph E. Johnston statue, Dalton, Georgia, 1912
- Admiral Albert Gleaves bust, Annapolis, Maryland, 1938
- Andrew Jackson bust, Tennessee State Capitol, Nashville
- James K. Polk bust, Tennessee State Capitol, Nashville
- John Ross bust, Hamilton County Courthouse, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1958
- Alexander P. Stewart bust, Hamilton County Courthouse, Chattanooga, Tennessee 1911
- Victory statue, Bronx County World War I Memorial in Pelham Bay Park, New York City, with Leopold Scholz, 1933
- Victory statue, War Memorial Building, Legislative Plaza, Nashville, with Leopold Scholz, 1929
- Pediment sculptures of the Nashville Parthenon, with Leopold Scholz, 1920–30
References
- ^ Architect of the Capitol, ‘’Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States Capitol’’, United States Printing Office, Washington 1965 p. 244, 259
- ^ "Belle Kinney, Sculptor, Dies". New York Times. August 28, 1959. Retrieved October 15, 2015 – via ProQuest Historical Newspapers.