Emma Stebbins

Emma Stebbins ( born September 1, 1815 in New York City; † October 25, 1882 ibid ) was an American sculptor.

Life

Stebbins was born in New York City and was already in her childhood artistic talent.

1857 Stebbins moved to Rome, where she studied with John Gibson. This training was funded by her her brother Henry G. Stebbins, who led the New York Stock Exchange at that time. In Rome, Stebbins fell in love with the actress Charlotte Saunders Cushman. Cushman was confident, strong and charismatic and had just finished a ten-year relationship with the actors Matilda Hays, when she met Stebbins. Together traveled Stebbins and Cushman further and took a ride to Naples. After their joint return to New York City, they spent their time with a circle of friends lesbian women, which included the sculptors Harriet Hosmer and Edmonia Lewis. In this narrow area Stebbins and Cushman were open their relationship.

Among the recognized works that created Stebbins as a sculptor, was a bust of Cushman that was 1850-1859. Cushman fell ill with breast cancer in 1869 and has since been maintained by Stebbins.

Cushman died in 1876 at the age of 59 from pneumonia. 1882 Stebbins died at age 67. Stebbins was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City.

Works (selection)

Stebbins has created numerous works as a sculptor. The best known is her character group Angel of the Waters of 1873. This figure group is also known under the name of Bethesda Fountain and is located at the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park in New York City.

Your bronze statue of the U.S. education reformer Horace Mann in 1865 erected in front of the State House in Boston.

A marble statue of the explorer Columbus is located in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, the Supreme Court in New York City.