Background
Kitson, Theo Alice Ruggles was born in 1871 in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Cyrus Washburn and Anna Holmes (Baker) Ruggles.
Kitson, Theo Alice Ruggles was born in 1871 in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Cyrus Washburn and Anna Holmes (Baker) Ruggles.
Public school education, Brookline. Pupil of H. H. Kitson and Dagnan-Bouveret, Paris.
Has exhibited at Paris Exposition, 1889 (honorable mention). Paris Salon, 1890 (honorable mention-only American woman sculptor to receive honorable mention, Paris Salon). Was selected by women of Michigan to make two bronze figures for Chicago Exposition to represent woods of Michigan.
Has exhibited Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics’ Association (2 medals).
Society American Artists, National Academy Design (New York), Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts (Philadelphia), Boston Art Club, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), The Art Institute of Chicago of Chicago. Medal, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.
Works: The Volunteer, Newburyport, Massachusetts. Spanish War statues, Minneapolis and Schenectady.
Bickerdyke Statue, Galesburg, Illinois.
Etc. Has erected over fifty public monuments in various parts of the United States, including statue of General Kosciusko. Public Garden, Boston.
Equestrian statue of Victory, Hingham, Massachusetts, 1929.
Home: Framingham Center, Massachusetts
Married Henry Hudson Kitson, June 29, 1893. Children: Dorothy, John, Theo Ruggles.