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Bashka Paeff

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commissioned the Warren Memorial Fountain to honor her father John E. Warren and it featured a crouched boy on a rock with a resting Belgian Police Hound at its base. The boy is directing a flow of water into a pool for the dog to drink. The boy was modeled after John Warren's grandson, Mortimer
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In 1938, her relief sculpture of James Geddes was installed at the Boston University Library after he donated 5000 books and a Geddes Memorial Room was named after him. Professor Geddes had been teaching languages at the school for fifty years. The sculpture was funded by Geddes' friends and
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for the pieces she modeled at the Park Street T station while working her way through art school at the Boston Museum School. She was especially known for realistic animal sculptures, war memorials, fountains and portraits which she created in the classical tradition.
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Wingate, Jennifer. Motherhood, Memorials, and Anti-Militarism: Bashka Paeff's "Sacrifices of War". Woman's Art Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Fall - Winter, 2008), pp. 31–40
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Bashka Paeff created this commissioned sculpture for Cornelia Warren to honor John Warren owner of the Cumberland Paper Mills in
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and the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston. In 1923, her listed address was 6 Pinckney Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
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in 1889. When she was a year old, her family immigrated to the United States. At the age of 13 or 14 she enrolled in
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Today Paeff is perhaps best known for the Maine Sailors and Soldiers Memorial on
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Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis by Bashka Paeff at Brandeis University,
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on seven occasions from 1916 through 1937 and executed a sculpture of Mrs.
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Warren, Jr. The dog was modeled after a pet of Boston attorney,
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Sculpture of Sleeping Dog by Bashka Paeff- Collection of the
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Bashka Paeff sculpted this bronze sculpture and pedestal.
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when she was on campus to give a convocation address.
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Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
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A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940
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World War I Memorials and Monuments on Waymarking.com
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Chaplain's Memorial 1922 high relief by Bashka Paeff
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Belarusian
Minsk
Russian Empire
American
Massachusetts Normal Art School
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Samuel Montefiore Waxman



Westbrook, Maine

Cyrus Dallin Art Museum
Belarusian
Boston
Massachusetts
Minsk
Russian Empire
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Cyrus Edwin Dallin
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Bela Pratt
Park Street T station
MacDowell Colony
Peterborough, New Hampshire
Edward MacDowell
Samuel Montefiore Waxman
Boston University
Guild of Boston Artists

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