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1) Anna Coleman Watts Ladd, born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on July 15, 1878 to June 3, 1939 (aged 60), was an American sculptor who devoted her time & skills in WWI to design prosthetics for the injured
2) She was educated in Europe and studied sculpture in Paris and Rome. She studied with Bela Pratt for three years at the Boston Museum School.
3) In 1914, she was founding member of the Guild of Boston Artists & exhibited in both the opening show and the traveling exhibition that followed. She later held a one woman show at the Guild's gallery.
4) She challenged herself on many artistic fronts & wrote two books: 'The Joyous History of Hieronymus the Anonymous' (1905) and 'The Candid Adventurer' (1913). She also wrote two unproduced plays.
5) Soldiers came to Ladd's studio to have a cast made of their face & their features sculpted onto clay or plasticine. She used real hair to create the eyelashes, eyebrows and mustaches.
6) In 1932, the French Government honored her as a Knight (Chevalier) of the Legion of Honor, in recognition of the work she'd done. Her work is now called anaplastology.
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