Belle Marshall KinneyScholz (1890–1959) was an American sculptor, born in
Tennessee who worked and died in New York state.
Early life
Belle Kinney was one of four children born to Captain D.C. Kenny and Elizabeth Morrison Kenny. She was born in
Nashville, Tennessee.[1] Belle Kinney won first prize at the 1897
Tennessee Centennial Exposition for a bust of her father.
Sculpting career
At age 15, Belle Kinney was awarded a scholarship to the
Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied with
Lorado Taft. In 1907, at age 17, she received her first commission, to sculpt the statue of
Jere Baxter, organizer of the
Tennessee Central Railway. Following her work at the Art Institute, Kinney maintained a studio in
Greenwich Village, during which time she met Austrian-born sculptor
Leopold F. Scholz (1877–1946).[2] They married in 1921, and completed several other works together, including the Victory statue in the War Memorial Building court at Legislative Plaza,
Nashville (1929) and the bronze figure of Victory for the
World War I Memorial in
Pelham Bay Park,
Bronx, New York City (1933). They also created both works representing Tennessee in the
National Statuary Hall Collection in the
US Capitol in
Washington D.C.[3]
By 1948, Kinney was maintaining a studio in Chattanooga, Tennessee.[4] Kinney[5] died on August 27 or 28,[6] 1959 at age 69 in
Boiceville,
Ulster County, New York.[7]
Bronze bust of David Crockett, Trenton, Tennessee (1950)[10]
References
^Van West, Carroll (2010).
"Belle Kenny". The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. The Tennessee Historical Society and the University of Tennessee Press. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
^Coleman, Christopher K. (1990). "From Monument to Museum: The Role of the Parthenon in the Culture of the New South". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 49 (3): 139–151.
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^Architect of the Capitol, ‘’Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects in the United States Capitol’’, United States Printing Office, Washington 1965 pp. 244, 259
^"Historical News and Notices". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 7 (2): 186–192. June 1948.
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^It is unclear when the spelling of her family name was changed to Kinney.
^The summary presented on 25 December 2009 in the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture gives her death date as 28 August. However, two obituaries both dated 28 August, in 2 newspapers (the New York Times, and the Toledo Blade
[1]) state that she died "yesterday".
^"Belle Kinney, Sculptor, Dies". New York Times. August 28, 1959.
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^Van West, Carroll (2010).
"Belle Kinney". The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. The Tennessee Historical Society and the University of Tennessee Press. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
^"Historical News and Notices". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 9 (3): 286–288. September 1950.
JSTOR42621049.