Anna Coleman Watts Ladd

Place: Bryn Mawr

Born: 1878

Death: 1939

Biography:

Anna Coleman Watts Ladd (July 15, 1878 – June 3, 1939) was an American sculptor in Massachusetts who devoted her time and skills throughout World War I to designing prosthetics for soldiers who were disfigured from injuries received in combat. She studied sculpture in Paris and Rome, and later moved to Boston where she studied with Bela Pratt at the Boston Museum School. Ladd challenged herself on many artistic fronts and wrote two books, The Joyous History of Hieronymus the Anonymous (1905), based on a medieval romance she worked on for years and The Candid Adventurer (1913), a sendup of Boston society. She also wrote two unproduced plays; one of which incorporated the story of a female sculptor who goes to war. She devoted herself to portraiture and her work was well regarded.