bonded bronze, edition of 14, 2006
14” x 12” x 12”
The size and shape of a standard wastebasket, this Urn is covered with bas-relief images of hands crumpling up sheets of paper with varying gestures of frustration or nonchalance. Accomplished contemporary poets posed for each hand, including Dick Davis, Dana Gioia, R.S. Gwynn, Rachel Hadas, Charles Martin, F.D. Reeve, Marilyn Taylor, Catherine Tufariello and David Yezzi
Plaster
18.5” x 15.5” x 5.5”
2020
2024
bronze
panel: 10’ x 6’ x 4”
Margaret Tulip’s is one of the hands that visitors can hold and touch history. The shape of the hand and the lines in the palm are copied from the hand of Margaret Tulip’s descendant,
2024
Bronze
In 1956 Ruth Morey was the first woman elected to serve as a Selectman. Margaret Tulip was enslaved in colonial Lexington. She was to be freed in 1740, at age 22, but was kidnapped and re-enslaved for life. In 1768, she brought suit in the courts. After three trials she finally won her freedom.
bonded bronze & copper, 2018
edition of 10
14″ x 18″ x 1.25″
2024
bronze
12’ x 16’ x 4”
granite plaza 28’ diameter
The figures on either side of the central gateway extend their hands, inviting visitors to hold them and join the sweep of history.
clay original, 2013, available in bronze or resin editions of 10
20” x 16” x 11”
Sculpted from life from sittings in 2010.
Lexington, MA
2024
bronze
12’ x 16’ x 4”
granite plaza 28’ diameter
Commissioned by LexSeeHer, Inc.
Donated to the Town of Lexington, MA
Celebrating the contributions made by bold Lexington women from the 18th century to the 21st, who when faced with injustice or seemingly insurmountable obstacles determined that “Something Must Be Done.”
clay original, 2013, available in bronze or resin editions of 10
20” x 16” x 11”
Sculpted from life from sittings in 2010.
Detail:
Books under Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s chair include Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1793 A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Sarah Grimke’s 1838 Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and Margaret Fuller’s 1845 Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
Detail:
Susan B. Anthony’s traveling bag.
Susan B. Anthony was known for carrying an alligator handbag “crammed with injustices” as Elizabeth Cady Stanton once said. Here is its filled with pamphlets and flyers for lectures by Sojourner Truth.
2001
bronze, edition of 9
18” x 10” x 12”
I made this allegorical figure of my city soon after the attack: a statue of a beautiful, strong, nude, maternal figure who could survive even this level of aggression. photo by John Bigelow Taylor
Detail:
Sojourner Truth’s knitting
Sojourner Truth often had herself photographed with knitting on her lap. Knitting was not a skill taught to enslaved people, and it was a patriotic duty during the Civil War. Truth lost part of her right index finger while she was enslaved.
Detail:
Susan B. Anthony
bonded marble, plastic refuse, 2018
edition of 3
31″ x 18.5″ x 3″
Central Park, New York City
Detail:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
bonded marble, 2015
22″ x 18″ x 2″
Detail:
Sojourner Truth
Bronze sculpture group 108″ high
Each woman represents a different aspect of activism:
Sojourner Truth
is speaking,
Susan B. Anthony
is organizing,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
is writing.
34” x 17” x 12
bonded marble, 2006
Literary Walk, Central Park, New York City
Bronze and granite
14′ x 12′ x 6′
figures 1.65 times life size
Portraying:
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Commissioned by Monumental Women
Donated to New York City
Unveiled on August 26, 2020
34” x 17” x 12
bonded marble, 2006
