Leila Usher

Leila Usher (August 26, 1859 – August 13, 1955[1][2]) was an American sculptor.

Leila Usher
Leila Usher with her bas-relief of Susan B. Anthony in 1922
Born
Leila Woodman Usher

(1859-08-26)August 26, 1859
Onalaska, Wisconsin
DiedAugust 13, 1955(1955-08-13) (aged 95)
New York City, New York
OccupationSculptor

Biography
Bas-relief portrait of paleontologist Nathaniel Shaler, c. 1909

Leila Woodman Usher was born in Onalaska, Wisconsin on August 26, 1859, to parents Isaac Lane Usher and Susannah Coffin Woodman.[2][3][4] She was a pupil of English sculptor H. H. Kitson in Boston, American George Brewster in Cambridge, and Irish-American Augustus Saint-Gaudens in New York, and also studied abroad in Paris and Rome.[2][5][6]

Her best-known work is a 1902 bust of educator Booker T. Washington commissioned by the Tuskegee Institute.[1] She produced bas-relief portraits of many other prominent figures such as social reformer Susan B. Anthony, scholar Francis James Child, minister Elijah Kellogg, and geologist John Wesley Powell.[2][5][7][8]

Usher received the Bronze Medal at the 1895 Atlanta Exposition,[6][9] and her work was also awarded at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition.[10] Usher's sculptures are held in the collections of institutions such as Bowdoin College, Bryn Mawr College, Hampton University, Johns Hopkins University, and Radcliffe College.[2][5][8][11]

She died at St. Luke's Hospital in New York on August 13, 1955, aged 95.[1][2]

gollark: > A core proposition in economics is that voluntary exchanges benefit both parties. We show that people often deny the mutually beneficial nature of exchange, instead espousing the belief that one or both parties fail to benefit from the exchange. Across 4 studies (and 7 further studies in the Supplementary Materials), participants read about simple exchanges of goods and services, judging whether each party to the transaction was better off or worse off afterwards. These studies revealed that win–win denial is pervasive, with buyers consistently seen as less likely to benefit from transactions than sellers. Several potential psychological mechanisms underlying win–win denial are considered, with the most important influences being mercantilist theories of value (confusing wealth for money) and naïve realism (failing to observe that people do not arbitrarily enter exchanges). We argue that these results have widespread implications for politics and society.
gollark: (linking because I happened to read it recently)
gollark: But look at this: https://psyarxiv.com/efs5y/
gollark: I mean, *maybe* some behaviors make sense at population scale or in some bizarre game-theoretic way?
gollark: No, humans just act irrationally all the time for no good reason.

References
  1. "The Week's Census". Jet. Vol. 8 no. 15. Johnson Publishing Company. August 18, 1955. p. 17. ISSN 0021-5996. Retrieved July 31, 2017 – via Google Books.
  2. "Leila Usher, Sculptress, 95". New York Herald Tribune. OCLC 785729899. Retrieved July 31, 2017 – via OCLC.
  3. "Francis James Child". Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  4. Usher, Edward Preston (1895). "Genealogy". A memorial sketch of Roland Greene Usher, 1823–1895. p. 126. Retrieved July 31, 2017 – via archive.org.
  5. Putnam, Frank (1903). "Note and Comment". National Magazine. Vol. 19. p. 100. Retrieved July 31, 2017 – via Google Books.
  6. "Directory of Sculptors". American Art Annual. MacMillan. 4: 92. 1903. Retrieved July 31, 2017 – via Google Books.
  7. "Miss Leila Usher, Sculptress, with bas-relief of Susan B. Anthony". Library of Congress. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  8. "Bronze Work". Granite, Marble and Bronze. A. M. Hunt. 24 (12): 35. December 1914. Retrieved July 31, 2017 – via Google Books.
  9. Albert, Helen Horton (October 2, 1941). "We Women". Asbury Park Press. Asbury Park, New Jersey. p. 15. Retrieved July 31, 2017 – via newespapers.com.
  10. Harlan, Louis R.; Smock, Raymond W., eds. (1977). Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 6: 1901–2. University of Illinois Press. p. 463. ISBN 9780252006500. Retrieved July 31, 2017 – via Google Books.
  11. Harper, Ida Husted (1908). "International Suffrage". The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony. 3. Hollenbeck Press. p. 1253. Retrieved July 31, 2017 – via Google Books.
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