Nancy Cox-McCormack
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Nannie M. McCormack, ca.1912
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Nancy Mal Cox August 15, 1885 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | February 17, 1967 (aged 81) Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
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Nancy Cox-McCormack, later Cushman (August 15, 1885 – February 17, 1967), was an American sculptor, writer and socialite. Between 1910 and 1953 she sculpted bronze and terra cotta busts and bas reliefs of more than seventy sitters, including such notables as social reformer Jane Addams, lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Ezra Pound, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera and Indian politician Mohandas K. Gandhi. Of the works she is known to have created, the location of only half is currently known.
Nancy "Nannie" Mal (or Mai) Cox was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 15, 1885, the second of three children of Herschel McCullough Cox and Nancy Morgan Cox, a well-off Virginia couple. Nancy and her siblings contracted polio when Nancy was about three, and her sister and brother died of the disease in May 1888. Nancy's mother died of tuberculosis on December 13, 1888.
Herschel McCullough Cox remarried and had a son, Henry Herschel Cox, with his second wife, Lena Lillian Warren. Herschel died in an accident when Nancy was a teenager, December 31, 1899. Nancy lived at a boarding school in Arkansas, then briefly with her stepmother in Nashville, Tennessee where she attended Ward Seminary. There she studied with artist Willie Betty Newman, working in pastels and watercolors. Unhappy in her home life, Nancy married Mark McCormack in 1903, but separated from him in 1909 and divorced as of 1911. In 1909, Nancy enrolled briefly in the St. Louis School of Fine Arts at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri where she worked with Victor Holm.
In 1910 Nancy Cox-McCormack moved to Chicago, and enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied sculpture with Charles Mulligan. She opened a studio in the Tree Studio Building in Chicago. For the next ten years, she lived and worked primarily in Chicago. The first sculpture that she sold, entitled "Harmony", was shown at the January 1913 Chicago Artists Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. She also entered and won the Edward Ward Carmack Memorial Competition, Nashville. She was chosen to create panels on the themes "Woman in the Home" and "Woman in Civics" for the Rockford Women's Club in Rockford, Illinois. She also created altar panels of "The Annunciation" and "The Birth of Christ" for Trinity Episcopal Church in Chicago. She created a number of portrait sculptures during this period, including George and Frederick Woodruff of the First National Bank, and at least one death mask.
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