Constance Whitney Warren (January 17, 1888 – October 11, 1948) was a 20th-century American sculptor.[1]
Constance Whitney Warren | |
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 Photograph of Constance and the Count de Lasteyrie, 1912 | |
| Born | January 17, 1888 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | October 11, 1948 (aged 60) Beacon, New York, U.S. |
| Resting place | Evergreen Cemetery in Stonington, Connecticut |
| Occupation | Sculptor |
| Spouse | |
| Parent(s) | George Henry Warren II Georgia Williams Warren |
| Relatives | George Henry Warren (grandfather) |
Early life
editWarren was born in New York City on January 17, 1888, to George Henry Warren II (1855–1943) and Georgia "Daisy" Williams (1863–1937).[2] Her parents had a townhouse in New York and a large cottage in Newport, Rhode Island.[3]
Warren's maternal grandparents were George Henry Warren (one of the founders of the Metropolitan Opera) and Mary Caroline (née Phoenix) Warren (a daughter of U.S. Representative Jonas P. Phoenix and granddaughter of Stephen Whitney, one of the wealthiest merchants in New York City).[4] Among her extended family were uncles Whitney Warren and Lloyd Warren, prominent architects, and cousins Robert Walton Goelet (a financier and real estate developer) and Edith Starr Miller (an author who married Almeric Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough).[4]
Career
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During World War I, Warren chauffeured English staff officers.[5]
After the war, Warren became a prominent sculptor and, a few years later, she exhibited at the Paris Salon and her reputation spread to the United States.[5] Today she is known for various sculptures, including the 1921–25 Texas Cowboy Monument at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, the 1926–29 Tribute to Range Riders at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the 1924 Lariat Cowboy in Phoenix, Arizona.[6]
Personal life
editOn December 19, 1912, Warren married Count Guy de Lasteyrie at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. He was the eldest son of the Marquis de Lasteyrie and the former Olivia Elizabeth Goodlake.[7] Count Guy was a direct descendant, a great-great grandson, of the French aristocrat and American Revolutionary War hero Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette.[8][9] They divorced in the early 1920s before his father's death in 1923, when he became the marquis de Lasteyrie du Saillant.[10]
After her marriage in 1912, Warren lived in Paris and at a chateau in the French countryside.[5]
Death and burial
editSadly, in November 1930, "she was committed to an institution for the insane, remaining there until her death eighteen years later on October 11, 1948, in Beacon, New York."[11] She was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Stonington, Connecticut.
References
edit- ^ "Constance Whitney Warren profile". Portal to Texas History. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Constance Whitney Warren became one of the first women ... Constance Whitney Warren's statue of Diego Velazquez on horseback is located on the University of North Texas campus. ...
- ^ "George H. Warren ... A Founder of Concern That Once Owned Metropolitan Opera's Home, Dies at 87. Kin Of Noted Architect. Graduate of Columbia and Its Law School, but Never Had Practiced. Formerly Broker". The New York Times. June 4, 1943. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
Warren's wife, Georgia ... Warren, died on Feb. 21, 1937. Surviving are a son, George Henry Warren, Jr.; a daughter, Constance Whitney Warren, ...
- ^ Times, Special to The New York (August 21, 1914). "VAINLY SEEK WORD FROM NEWPORTERS; Col. J. H. Willard Unable to Hear from Wife and Three Daughters in Europe. HENRY R. SEDGWICK SOUGHT Countess Guy de Lasteyrle, Formerly Miss Constance Warren, Enrolls in Red Cross of France". The New York Times. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ^ a b Phoenix, Stephen Whitney (1878). The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and Its Affiliations: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants, as Well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878. Priv. Print. [Bradford Press]. p. 821. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
- ^ a b c "CONSTANCE WHITNEY WARREN (1888–1948)". www.gpgallery.com. Gerald Peters Gallery. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ^ Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
- ^ Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny Ruvigny and Raineval (9th marquis of) (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe. Harrison & Sons. p. 894. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Miss Warren Weds Count. Few at Ceremony, Owing to Mrs. Goelet's Death". The New York Times. December 20, 1912. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
As first planned, the wedding was to have been a large one, but, owing to the' recent death in Paris of Mrs. Robert Goelet, the bride's aunt, ...
- ^ "Constance Warren to Wed. Her Engagement to Comte Guy de Lasteyrie Announced in Paris". The New York Times. October 26, 1912. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
The engagement is announced of Comte Guy de Lasteyrie, son of the Marquis and Marquise de Lasteyrie of Paris, to Constance, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ...
- ^ Giniger, Henry (June 19, 1956). "Lafayette Papers Found in Castle; An Unused Tower of a Chateau Near Paris Yields Trove of Lafayette's Papers". The New York Times. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ^ Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck; N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York (1965). American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 161. Retrieved March 18, 2020.