Bela Lyon Pratt
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Clara and Lizzie, Daughters of Frederick and Elizabeth Shattuck
Clara and Lizzie, Daughters of Frederick and Elizabeth Shattuck
Bela Lyon Pratt model 1893, cast 1894
Bibliography
1903
Downes, William Howe. "The Work of Bela L. Pratt, Sculptor." New England Magazine 27 (February 1903): 760-771.
1909
Downes, William Howe. "The Work of Bela L. Pratt, Sculptor." International Studio 38, no. 149 (July 1909): III-X.
1910
Coburn, Frederick W. "Americanism in Sculpture. As Represented in the Works of Bela Lyon Pratt." Palette and Bench 2, nos. 5 and 6 (February-March 1910): 95-97, 127-131.
1913
Caffin, Charles H. American Masters of Sculpture. Garden City, New York, 1913: 181-183.
1914
Dorr, Charles Henry. "Bela L. Pratt: An Eminent New England Sculptor." Architectural Record 35, no. 6 (June 1914): 508-518.
1917
Cornish, F. Ogden. "Bela Pratt--Citizen and Sculptor." Boston Evening Transcript (19 May 1917): 4.
Downes, William Howe. "Mr. Pratt's Sculpture: Memorial Exhibition Opened Yesterday by Guild of Boston Artists...." Boston Transcript (30 October 1917): 13.
Obituary, Boston Evening Transcript (18 May 1917): 2.
Obituary, Boston Herald (19 May 1917): 14.
Obituary, The New York Times (19 May 1917).
1918
Gilman, Benjamin Ives. "Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Bela Lyon Pratt." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin 16 (April 1918): 28-29.
1930
Taft, Lorado. The History of American Sculpture. New York, 1924: 491-496.
1933
DAB, 1943, 8:166-168.
1976
Armstrong, Tom, et al. 200 Years of American Sculpture. New York, 1976: 298-299.
1984
Craven, Wayne. Sculpture in America. Rev. ed. Newark and New York, 1984: 495-497.
1986
Kozol, Paula M. "Bela Lyon Pratt (1867-1917." In Kathryn Greenthal, Paula M. Kozol, and Jan Seidler Ramirez, American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Boston, 1986: 309-322.
2000
Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 434-435.