Sarah Fisher Ames

Sarah Fisher Ames (1817–1901) was an American sculptor.[1]

Sarah Fisher Ames
Born
Sarah Fisher Clampitt

1817 (1817)
Lewes, Delaware, USA
Died1901 (aged 83–84)
Washington, D.C., USA
Known forSculpture
Spouse(s)Joseph Alexander Ames

Biography

Ames née Clampitt was born in 1817 in Lewes, Delaware. Ames studied art in Boston and in Rome. She married Joseph Alexander Ames, a portrait painter.[2]

She produced at least five busts of Abraham Lincoln.[3] During the American Civil War, Ames directed the hospital situated in the U.S. Capitol. She was a good friend of Lincoln, either through her position at the hospital or the antislavery movement. Rufus Wilson, author of Lincoln in Portraiture, claimed that Ames knew Lincoln "in an intimate and friendly way" through her work at the hospital.[4][5] Fisher was one of the first sculptors of Lincoln, creating a marble bust of Lincoln for the U.S. Senate in 1866.[6] That sculpture is in the U.S. Capitol Building. Her busts of Lincoln are also located at the Massachusetts State House, the Williams College Museum of Art, the Lynn Historical Society, and the Woodmere Art Museum.[3]

Ames exhibited her work at The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[5]

She died in Washington, D.C., in 1901.[3]

Abraham Lincoln by Sarah Fisher Clampitt Ames, 1868

References
  1. "Sarah Fisher Ames". ArtNet. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  2. "Ames, Sarah Fisher". Woodmere Art Museum. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  3. "U.S. Senate: Abraham Lincoln". United States Senate. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  4. Wilson, Rufus Rockwell (1935). Lincoln in portraiture. New York, The Press of the Pioneers, Inc. p. 178.
  5. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  6. Dabakis, Melissa (Spring 2008). "Sculpting Lincoln: Vinnie Ream, Sarah Fisher Ames, and the Equal Rights Movement". www.journals.uchicago.edu. 22 (1). doi:10.1086/587917.
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