biography of Amelia, Amy PEABODY (1890-1984)

Birth place: Marblehead Neck, MA

Addresses: Boston, MA

Profession: Sculptor

Studied: BMFA Sch. with Charles Grafly; Archipenko Sch. Art; Northeastern Univ. (hon. D.F.A.)

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1922-34; AIC, 1932; Boston Sculpture Soc.; Jr. Lg. Nat. Exh. (prize); Garden Club Am., (Mrs. Oakleigh Thorne Medal); WFNY, two years; WMAA, 1940; CI, 1941; NAWA, 1953; Guild Boston Artists, Boston, MA, 1970s

Member: Boston Sculpture Soc.; North Shore AA; Guild Boston Artists; AAPL; Boston AC; AFA; NAWA; NSS; New England Sculptors Assn.; Copley Soc.

Work: End of an Era (marble), Mus. FA, Boston, MA; "Boy with Cat (stone), Children's Medical Center, Boston; plastic fox, Audubon Soc. Laughing Brook Reservation. Commissions: Victory Medal, Joslin Clinic, Boston; baptismal font, church in Oxford, MA; portrait plaque of Dr. Hsein Wu, Harvard Medical Sch., Cambridge, MA; "Woodchucks & Pheasants", cast stone for entrance gate of Groton Mem. Park, MA; granite setter in animal graveyard for Mrs. Frank C. Paine, Wayland, MA.

Comments: Preferred media: stone, bronze, ceramics. Teaching: chmn. arts & skills, Am. Red Cross, Boston.

Sources: WW73; WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series.