Sculptor, born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. She studied with Lorado Taft at the Art Institute of Chicago (1890), became one of his assistants, and opened her own studio (1894). She married the painter, Robert Vonnoh in 1899 and lived in New York City, Connecticut, and France. She is known for her plaster and bronze statuettes, such as The Young Mother (1896).
Bessie Potter Vonnoh American sculptor, born August 17, 1872 in St Louis, Missouri and died in New York City on March 8, 1955. She was one of Lorado Taft's White Rabbits and one of her well known pieces, Young Mother used fellow White Rabbit Mary Proctor, then wife of sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor and their first born child as models. Besides the work she did at the World's Columbian Exposition for Taft on the Horticultural Building she also produced an independent commission for the Illinois State Building. She was to she again at both the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York in 1901 and at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis, Missouri in 1904 where one of the ten works that she showed won a gold medal.
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