Background
Macleary, Bonnie was born in 1890 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Daughter of James Harvey and Mary (Kings) McLeary (as spelled by father).
Macleary, Bonnie was born in 1890 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Daughter of James Harvey and Mary (Kings) McLeary (as spelled by father).
Art education, Julian Academy, Paris, Art Students’ League, New York City, under James Earle Frazer, also Gleb Dersjensky.
Received first prize, Women's Arts and Industries, New York City, 1928, 29. Honorable Mention, The Offering, National Arts Club, 1955. Republican by bronze “Aspiration,” Metropolitan Museum, New York City.
Bronze fountain “Ouch!” Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
“Victory,” World War memorial, San Juan, Prize ring (The) Monument to Don Luis Munoz Rivera, University of Porto Rico.
Gifford Memorial, Brooklyn. A. Joseph Armstrong bust, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Rotan Memorial, Waco, My Lady Sleeps, Wesleyan College, Georgia.
Ben Milam monument, San Antonio, Texas, “Blessed Damozel,” Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Memorial Relief to the “Women of the Confederacy,” Montgomery, Alabama.
Bronze, Felicia; ceramic sculpture, Laurel. Relief Happy Days; woodcarving Origin of Sound.
Bronze figure entitled Young Amazon. The Flame. Became an Associate National Academican, 1930.
Member National Sculpture Society, National Association Women Artists and Allied Artists American, American Artists Professional League, New Orleans Art Association, Southern States Art League, Architectural League. Club: Texas (honorary.
Married James McGahan.