Biografie von Bashka PAEFF (1893-1979)

Birth place: Minsk, Russia

Addresses: Cambridge, MA

Profession: Sculptor, teacher, lecturer

Studied: Mass. Normal Sch., with Cyrus Dallin; Boston Mus. Sch. FA with Bela Pratt, 1914; N. Aronson in Paris, France, 1930-32

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1924, 1926-27; Paris Salon, early 1930s; Tercentenary Expo, Boston, 1933 (medal); Boston Guild Artists, 1959 (solo); NAD, 1969 (Daniel Chester French Medal); NSS; Johns Hopkins AC

Member: Cambridge AA (bd. mem.); Guild Boston Artists; Boston Soc. Arts & Crafts; NSS (fellow)

Work: Hall of Fame, Mass. State House (Boston); "Boy and Bird Fountain," Boston Pub. Garden; bas-relief on War Mem. Bridge, Kittery (ME); fountains, Westbrook (ME), Ravina (IL), Stoughton (MA), and Chestnut Hill (MA); Birmingham, AL; MIT; bust, Univ. Buenos Aires; Grad. Center, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA; bust of A.J. Philpott, BMFA; Harvard Univ.; bas-relief, Rockefeller Inst., NY; Perkins Inst. for the Blind, Watertown (MA); bas-relief, Boston Psychopathic Hospital; bas-relief, Fernald State Sch., Waverly (MA), bas-relief, Princeton Inst. (NJ); life size bas-relief, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard Law Lib.; bas-relief, Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago and Addams House, Phila.; bronze reliefs, Dr. Southard, Harvard Medical Lib.; Dir. Augusta Bronmer, Judge Baker Found., Boston; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Boston Univ., 1969; six-figure "Minute Man Memorial," Lexington, MA

Comments: Came to Boston as a child. Specialized in realistic portraits, war memorials, fountains, and animals. Preferred media: bronze, marble.

Sources: WW73; WW47; Rubinstein, American Women Sculptors, 199-200; Falk, Exh. Record Series.