Laura Gardin Fraser

United States of America
United States of America
Games Participations2
First Olympic GamesAmsterdam 1928
Year of Birth1889

Biography

Laura Gardin was the wife of James Fraser, with both active mainly as coin designers in the USA. Her career in sculpture started with creating medals, coins, fountains, and animals for which she became very well known. She was the first woman to design a coin for the United States Treasury and was commissioned to do several monuments, including the double equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in Wyman Park, Baltimore, Maryland, the three relief panels at the entrance to the library at West Point, and a white granite figure of Pegasus at Brook Green Gardens, South Carolina.

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