Gertrude Colburn

Gertrude Colburn (born in Maryland around 1886, died 1968) was an American dancer and sculptor.

Colburn was a dance teacher from 1916 to 1931 at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, but took up sculpting after an accident ended her teaching career. [1] Her sculptures, often depicting dancers in motion, were created in bronze, plaster, and ceramics, in a broadly Art Deco style.

Colburn's plaster cast of the hands of the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947) now belongs to the Preservation Society of Newport County in Rhode Island. It was formerly in the collection of the radio soprano Jessica Dragonette and the University of Wyoming at Laramie.

According to the 1940 US Census, Colburn lived at 380 Riverside Drive, New York City.

References

  1. ↑ gallery biographical listing ("Information courtesy of MD Commission on Artistic Property, MD State Archives and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University."
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