List of female sculptors facts for kids

A sculptor is an artist who creates three-dimensional artworks. This means their art isn't flat like a painting; it has height, width, and depth. Sculptors use many different materials, like clay, stone, metal, wood, or even light and sound, to make their creations.

This article lists many amazing women who are famous sculptors. They have created incredible artworks that can be seen all over the world!

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Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), Maman, a giant spider sculpture outside the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain.

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Caroline Shawk Brooks, The Dreaming Iolanthe, (1876), a sculpture made from butter!

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Marie-Anne Collot, Portrait of the Grand Duchess Natalya Alexeyevna (1775).

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Anna Golubkina, Mist (1899).

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Barbara Hepworth, Monolith-Empyrean, 1953, at Kenwood House, London.

Harriet Hosmer, The Sleeping Faun (c. 1870), at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with her Dead Son (1937), a memorial in Neue Wache, Berlin.

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Edmonia Lewis, Minnehaha (1868).

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Lola Mora, La Justicia, el Trabajo y la Paz (1916, replica 2014), at the Palace of the Argentine National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Elisabet Ney, Lady Macbeth (1905), at Stadtmuseum Münster, Germany.

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Brenda Putnam, Puck (1930-32, replica 2002), at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

Beverly Pepper, Longo Monolith (2006), Bad Homburg, Germany.

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Vinnie Ream, Abraham Lincoln (1871), at the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.

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Emma Stebbins, Angel of the Waters (1873), at Bethesda Terrace and Fountain, Central Park, New York City.

Niki de Saint-Phalle, The Golem (1971), in Kiryat Hayovel, Israel.

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Buffalo Bill - The Scout, 1924, honoring Buffalo Bill Cody in Cody, Wyoming.

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See also

• List of female architects
• List of sculptors