With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Mary Tarleton Knollenberg
Sculpture
1904 – 1992
- Biography/Description of Work
A sculptor in bronze and stone, Mary Tarleton Knollenberg studied in Paris through a Guggenheim fellowship, under Mahonri Young in New York and Heinz Warneke in East Haddam. She specialized in female forms, usually nudes, using the ‘direct carving’ technique that Warneke espoused. She and her husband of 35 years, Bernhard Knollenberg, a lawyer, Revolutionary War historian and librarian of Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library, lived in a house designed in 1938 by local architect Alberta Pfeiffer.
- Sources view
- Obituary, New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/07/obituaries/mary-tarleton-knollenberg-sculptor-88.html
Obituaries in the Day, Courant.
Lansing, Amy Kurtz. Modern Figures: Mary Tarleton Knollenberg, a Retrospective. Florence Griswold Museum, 2014. - Associated Resource(s)