Background
Macneil, Carol Brooks was born on January 15, 1871 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Alden F. and Ellen W. Brooks.
Macneil, Carol Brooks was born on January 15, 1871 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Alden F. and Ellen W. Brooks.
Pupil The Art Institute of Chicago and Lorado Taft, Chicago, and of MacMonnies and Injalbert, Paris.
She was one of the "white rabbits" who worked for Lorado Taft at the World Columbian Exposition of 1893, along with other female artists including Helen F. Mears. They had two sons, Claude A. MacNeil and Alden B. MacNeil. In 1904, she was awarded a bronze medal for a fountain at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held in Saint Louis.
A longtime resident of the College Point neighborhood in Queens, New York, MacNeil died in the borough"s Jamaica Hospital.
Member National Sculpture Society, Society Women Painters and Sculptors. Has made a specialty of child life in sculpture, portraiture and landscape painting.
Married Hermon Atkins MacNeil, December 25, 1895.