Background
Shaw was born in 1897 in Lake Forest, Illinois, near Chicago, the daughter of prominent Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw.
(This book provides a great sampling of the work of Sylvia...)
This book provides a great sampling of the work of Sylvia Shaw Judson, whose work was influenced by Chinese sculpture and the work of French sculptor Aristide Maillol, whom she met in Paris.
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Shaw was born in 1897 in Lake Forest, Illinois, near Chicago, the daughter of prominent Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw.
She attended the Westover School in Connecticut. She studied with Anna Hyatt Huntington and Albin Polasek at the Art Institute of Chicago and went to Paris in 1920 to continue her studies under Antoine Bourdelle at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
Judson was influenced by Chinese sculpture and the work of French sculptor Aristide Maillol, whom she met in Paris. Mistress Judson had a son, Clay, who underwent a lobotomy to correct a behavioral problem. I worked as a hospital aide at Friends Hospital in 1971-1972 and Clay was one of patients living at the hospital.
Clay was a terribly confused but nice gentlemen.
John McCann Buckingham, Pennsylvania 11/24/2015 She authored The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures and and taught sculpture at the American University in Cairo in 1963. Judson had work exhibited at Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina.
The White House, Washington, District of Columbia The Whitney Museum of American Artist The Philadelphia Museum of Artist
The Art Institute of Chicago.
And the National Academy of Design, New York City. In 1926, she was awarded an honorable mention at the Chicago Art Club.
In 1948 she was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1965.
(This book provides a great sampling of the work of Sylvia...)
Fellow National Sculpture Society. Member National Academy of Design. Member Society of Friends.
Married Clay Judson, September 3, 1921 (deceased. Married second, Sidney Gatter Haskins, December, 1963, Exhibiting sculptor, from 1922. Children: Alice Clay (Mistress Edward L. Ryerson, Junior.