Parsons, Edith Barretto Stevens
American, (1878-1956)
'FROG BABY' (fountain)bronze with weathered patinasigned: on base
H40 1/2"
*Artist biography: Born in Halifax, Virginia, Edith Parsons studied at the Art Students League in New York with John Twachtman, Daniel Chester French, and George Bernard. Her specialty was memorial fountains including those in John Galloway Public Park in Memphis, Tennessee, in St. Paul, Minnesota and Summit, New Jersey. She also did several portrait busts and animal figures. From 1908 to 1933, she exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design. Her work, 'Frog Baby' is the focal point of the Museum of Small Sculpture in Brookgreen Gardens, Murrell's Inlet, SC. *Note: Pictured above are the original owners, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Heyward of Rion, South Carolina. The Heywards are standing beside the 'Frog Baby' fountain in their garden at their home 'Rockland'. The fountain has descended through inheritance to its present owner.