Carol Brooks MacNeil (1871-1944)
chafing dish, circa 1897
bronze and brass
14.25 inches high
Carol Brooks MacNeil (1871-1944)
Cloudy Day
plaster
12.5 inches high
Carol Brooks MacNeil (1871-1944)
Mary
bronze
14 x 6.25 inches
Carol Brooks MacNeil (1871-1944)
Water Baby
bronze
11.75 inches high
Carol Brooks MacNeil (1871-1944)
Windswept
bronze
6.5 inches high
Artist Details
Carol
Louise
Brooks
Carrie L. Brooks
MacNeil
Hermon Atkins MacNeil
January 15, 1871
Chicago, Illinois
July 4, 1944
New York, New York
circa 1893: Room 8, 302 Wabash Ave, Chicago, Illinois
circa 1895: 4357 St. Lawrence Ave, Chicago, Illinois AND Paris
Chicago, Illinois
1894: Athenaeum Building with her father, near Taft’s studio
Painter-Oil, Sculptor
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Lorado Taft
Paris, France; student of Frank MacMonnies and Injalbert
Array
1892: Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Palette Club, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois;
1893: World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait Bust of Mrs. Dutton (in IL Building); Enid (in Fine Arts Palace)
1894-1895: Paris Salon, Paris, France
1895: Annual Exhibition, Palette Club, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Study for Portrait Bust of Merle T. Brooks
1900: Universelle Exposition, Paris, France
1904: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, Missouri
National Sculpture Society
“The Sculptors MacNeil: The Varied Work of Mr. Harmon A. MacNeil and Mrs. Carol Brooks MacNeil,” World’s Work, vol. XIV, no. 6, October 1907
Rubinstein, C.S. American Women Sculptors. Boston, Massachusetts, 1990.
National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors
National Sculpture Society
Palette Club, Chicago, Illinois
Assistant to Lorado Taft; one of the White Rabbits leading up to the Columbian Exposition of 1893
worked with Taft on commissions for Horticulture Building The Battle of the Flowers and Sleep of Flowers, a frieze of cupids and garlands, and individual figures; Carrie worked on Charity
Parents: Alden Finney (West Williamsfield, Ohio April 3, 1840-June 13, 1932 Winnetka, Illinois) and Ellen Terris (July 31, 1943-February 2, 1922) Brooks