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Louise Kidder Sparrow - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Louise Kidder Sparrow
- Louise Winslow Kidder Sparrow (January 1, 1884 – July 9, 1979) was an American sculptor and poet. Born in Malden, Massachusetts, Sparrow was a graduate of Emerson College, and began her artistic instruction in Europe.
- She moved to Washington, D.C.
- around 1909 and had further lessons in sculpture, working with Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, Edmund C.
- Messer, and Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar.
- Primarily a sculptor of portrait busts, she exhibited in numerous local, national, and international exhibits.
- She was a member of the Society of Washington Artists and the American Artists's Professional League.
- Her work received a variety of honors during her career including a diploma of honor from the Paris Colonial Exposition in 1931 and a bronze medal from the 1930 exhibition of the Society of Washington Artists.
- Her plaster bust of Theodore E.
- Burton is currently in the collection of the United States Capitol; she is also represented in the collections of the Western Reserve Historical Society, the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Observatory, the Montana State Capitol, and Howard University.
- She also wrote over a dozen volumes of verse, the last titled Midnight Meditation and completed shortly before her death.
- Sparrow was the wife of Captain Herbert G.
- Sparrow of the United States Navy, who died in 1924 when his ship, the USS Tacoma (CL-20), ran aground in Mexico; she later wrote the book The Last Cruise about the incident.
- The couple were the parents of a son, Herbert G.
- Sparrow, a major general in the United States Army.
- Louise Sparrow died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after a myocardial infarction.
- She is buried with her husband at Arlington National Cemetery.Sparrow's papers are today held by the Harvard University Libraries.
