Background
Grimes, Frances was born on January 25, 1869 in Braceville, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Francis Stanley and Ellen Frederika (Taft) Grimes.
Grimes, Frances was born on January 25, 1869 in Braceville, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Francis Stanley and Ellen Frederika (Taft) Grimes.
Grimes studied at the Pratt Institute in New York with Herbert Adams and worked as his assistant from 1894 to 1900.
She died in New York City. Adams called her "the best marble-cutter in America". lieutenant was in Cornish that she met sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens who persuaded her to join him as his full-time assistant in 1900 in his studio.
She worked with him until his death in 1907.
After Saint Gaudens" death, Grimes stayed on at his studio to finish several of his commissions including the eight Caryatids which she modeled from his sketch models created for a porch at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New New York She later moved to New York and took a studio in Macdougal Alley in Greenwich Village.
Grimes worked in bronze and marble.
Grimes was a member of the National Sculpture Society, whose 1929 exhibition catalog states that her work included "many bas-relief portraits, and busts, especially of children." She was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member in 1931, and an full Academician in 1945. She was also a member of National Association of Women Artists and the American Federation of Arts.