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Anna Coleman Ladd
American sculptor (1878–1939)
Anna Coleman Watts Ladd (July 15, 1878 – June 3, 1939) was an American sculptor in Massachusetts who devoted her time and skills throughout World War I to designing prosthetics for soldiers who were disfigured from injuries received in combat.
Biography
Anna Coleman Watts was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and educated in Europe, where she studied sculpture in Paris and Rome. She married Dr. Maynard Ladd in Salisbury, England, and then moved to Boston.
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She studied with Bela Pratt for three years at the Boston Museum School.
Her Triton Babies piece was shown at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. (It is now a fountain sculpture in the Boston Public Garden.) In 1914, she was founding member of the Guild of Boston Artists and exhibited in both the opening show and the traveling exhibition that followed.
She later held a one-woman show at the Guild's gallery. She completed other works with mythological