A WOMAN SCULPTOR.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 490, 24 April 1909, Page 11

A WOMAN SCULPTOR.

' ■'Miss .Theo Cowan, whose statuette "Will o' the'Wisp'.' at: the Women Artists Exhibition is attracting. so much attention, is the first woman sculptor born in Sydney, N.S.W. The Duke, of Argyll was very pleased with the statuette when he visited.the Exhibition (says an English paper), and remarked that it .reminded him of the work, of a famous American pculptor who had taken thq artistic world 'of London by storm a great many years ago,-with his statue, " The Greek Slave." Miss Cowan's first commission was given ir Italy, and was for a small monument in tli< Campo Santo at San Miniatio. . .After thi ■ completion of .this she-returned to Australia where shelreceived commissions for, portrait: in 'marble from ; Sir Edmund Barton, firs Premier .of the Commonwealth, and man;

notable people in tho Commonwealth. Later she came to London, where she has now made her home: She was oho of the exhibitors of sculpture at, the. Franco-British Exhibition J last year, and was awarded a gold medal for her, exhibit. Her best-known' work here, perhaps, is the bust of the Bishop of London, which Miss Cowan exhibited at the Grafton Galleries. , ; , ,•