Belle Kinney Scholz

Belle Marshall Kinney Scholz (1890–1959) was an American sculptor, born in Tennessee who worked and died in New York state.

Belle Kinney Scholz
Born
Belle Marshall Kinney

1890
Nashville, Tennessee
Died1959 (aged 68–69)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materArt Institute of Chicago
Known forsculpture
SpouseLeopold Scholz

Early life

Belle Kinney was one of four children born to Captain D.C. Kenny and Elizabeth Morrison Kenny. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee.[1] Belle Kinney won first prize at the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition for a bust of her father.

Sculpting career

At age 15, Belle Kinney was awarded a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied with Lorado Taft. In 1907, at age 17, she received her first commission, to sculpt the statue of Jere Baxter, organizer of the Tennessee Central Railway. Following her work at the Art Institute, Kinney maintained a studio in Greenwich Village, during which time she met Austrian-born sculptor Leopold F. Scholz (1877–1946).[2] They married in 1921, and completed several other works together, 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.[3]

By 1948, Kinney was maintaining a studio in Chattanooga, Tennessee.[4] Kinney[5] died on August 27 or 28,[6] 1959 at age 69 in Boiceville, Ulster County, New York.[7]

Work
Andrew Jackson (1927) and John Sevier (1931) at the U.S. Capitol, executed with Leopold Scholz

References
  1. Van West, Carroll (2010). "Belle Kenny". The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. The Tennessee Historical Society and the University of Tennessee Press. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
  2. Coleman, Christopher K. (1990). "From Monument to Museum: The Role of the Parthenon in the Culture of the New South". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 49 (3): 139–151. JSTOR 42626877.
  3. Architect of the Capitol, ‘’Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States Capitol’’, United States Printing Office, Washington 1965 pp. 244, 259
  4. "Historical News and Notices". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 7 (2): 186–192. June 1948. JSTOR 42620980.
  5. It is unclear when the spelling of her family name was changed to Kinney.
  6. The summary presented on 25 December 2009 in the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture gives her death date as 28 August. However, two obituaries both dated 28 August, in 2 newspapers (the New York Times, and the Toledo Blade ) state that she died "yesterday".
  7. "Belle Kinney, Sculptor, Dies". New York Times. August 28, 1959. ProQuest 114671411.
  8. Courier, Thomas J. (2000). The White House, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court: Historic Self-guided Tours. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738505572. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
  9. Van West, Carroll (2010). "Belle Kinney". The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. The Tennessee Historical Society and the University of Tennessee Press. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
  10. "Historical News and Notices". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 9 (3): 286–288. September 1950. JSTOR 42621049.
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