Career
She also had instruction as a painter at the Art Academy of Cincinnati with Barnhorn and Nowattny, the Acadèmie Julian in Paris, Verlet, Waldmann, Paris, with George Hitchcock in Holland, and Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown. Yet, afterwards, she decided to focus upon sculpture as her specialty. Webster trained under the distinguished American portrait sculptor Lorado Taft at the Art Institute of Chicago in his Midway studios, the city in which she eventually settled.
She also took classes at Oberlin College for drawing and painting.
She was best known for painting and sculpture. Within these mediums, her main subjects were portraits, busts, and sculptures.
She was most active in Chicago, Illinois, and Portland, Ohio. She also received training in Chicago, Cincinnati, Holland, Paris and Provincetown, Master of Arts. Under Taft, she also worked as his assistant and secretary at his Midway Studios in Chicago. She was also mentioned in the Magazine in Art for upholding high standards in 1921.
A list of her exhibitions and collections can be found here on the Illinois Women Artists Project page: Paris Salon of 1906 Cincinnati Museum, Ohio, 1916 The 111th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1916 A six-time contributor to the Annual Exhibition of by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago (Anime International Company), 1918-1932, Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Anime International Company, 1924 Lorado Taft, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982 In the gallery of Cordon in 1965, her sculpture had an honored place in the exhibition of work of member artists with an "In Memorium" art tea.
She was the president of the Cordon at the time of her death in January. She lived to be 83.
