Constance Whitney Warren
{{Short description|American sculptor (1888–1948)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{infobox person
| name =
| image = Constance Warren and Count Guy De Lasteyrie 2516562468 92395c5af1 o.jpg
| caption = Photograph of Constance and the Count de Lasteyrie, 1912
| birth_date = {{birth date|1888|01|17}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1948|10|11|1888|01|17}}
| death_place = Beacon, New York, U.S.
| resting_place = Evergreen Cemetery in Stonington, Connecticut
| occupation = Sculptor
| parents = George Henry Warren II
Georgia Williams Warren
| spouse = {{marriage|Count Guy de Lasteyrie
|December 19, 1912||reason=div}}
| children =
| relations = George Henry Warren (grandfather)
}}
Constance Whitney Warren (January 17, 1888 – October 11, 1948) was a 20th-century American sculptor.{{cite news|title=Constance Whitney Warren profile|url=http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth34968/m1/9|quote=Constance Whitney Warren became one of the first women ... Constance Whitney Warren's statue of Diego Velazquez on horseback is located on the University of North Texas campus. ...|work=Portal to Texas History|access-date=25 July 2010}}
Early life
Warren was born in New York City on January 17, 1888, to George Henry Warren II (1855–1943) and Georgia "Daisy" Williams (1863–1937).{{cite news |title=George H. Warren ... A Founder of Concern That Once Owned Metropolitan Opera's Home, Dies at 87. Kin Of Noted Architect. Graduate of Columbia and Its Law School, but Never Had Practiced. Formerly Broker |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/06/04/archives/george-h-warreni-realtybxoff-ioial-a-founder-of-concern-that-once.html |quote=Warren's wife, Georgia ... Warren, died on Feb. 21, 1937. Surviving are a son, George Henry Warren, Jr.; a daughter, Constance Whitney Warren, ... |work=The New York Times |date=June 4, 1943 |access-date=July 25, 2010}} Her parents had a townhouse in New York and a large cottage in Newport, Rhode Island.{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=VAINLY SEEK WORD FROM NEWPORTERS; Col. J. H. Willard Unable to Hear from Wife and Three Daughters in Europe. HENRY R. SEDGWICK SOUGHT Countess Guy de Lasteyrle, Formerly Miss Constance Warren, Enrolls in Red Cross of France. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/08/21/archives/vainly-seek-word-from-newporters-col-j-h-willard-unable-to-hear.html |access-date=18 March 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=21 August 1914}}
Warren's maternal grandparents were George Henry Warren (one of the founders of the Metropolitan Opera) and Mary Caroline (née Phoenix) Warren (a daughter of U.S. Representative Jonas P. Phoenix and granddaughter of Stephen Whitney, one of the wealthiest merchants in New York City). Among her extended family were uncles Whitney Warren and Lloyd Warren, prominent architects, and cousins Robert Walton Goelet (a financier and real estate developer) and Edith Starr Miller (an author who married Almeric Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough).{{cite book |last1=Phoenix |first1=Stephen Whitney |title=The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and Its Affiliations: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants, as Well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878 |year=1878 |publisher=Priv. Print. [Bradford Press] |url=https://archive.org/details/whitneyfamilyofc01phoe |page=[https://archive.org/details/whitneyfamilyofc01phoe/page/821 821] |access-date=13 July 2018 |language=en}}
Career
File:Cowboy memorial in front of Texas State Capitol-.JPG, Austin, Texas, 1921–25.]]
During World War I, Warren chauffeured English staff officers.
After the war, Warren became a prominent sculptor and, a few years later, she exhibited at the Paris Salon and her reputation spread to the United States. Today she is known for various sculptures, including the 1921–25 Texas Cowboy Monument at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, the 1926–29 Tribute to Range Riders at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the 1924 Lariat Cowboy in Phoenix, Arizona.[https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=150820LFB5538.6949&profile=ariall&uri=link=3100006~!205297~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=1&source=~!siartinventories&term=Warren%2C+Constance+Whitney%2C+1888-1948%2C+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR Smithsonian Institution Research Information System]
Personal life
On December 19, 1912, Warren married Count Guy de Lasteyrie at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. He was the eldest son of the Marquis de Lasteyrie and the former Olivia Elizabeth Goodlake.{{cite book |author=Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny Ruvigny and Raineval (9th marquis of) |title=The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe |date=1914 |publisher=Harrison & Sons |page=894 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PUm1lS2j-wQC&pg=PA894 |access-date=18 March 2020 |language=en}} Count Guy was a direct descendant, a great-great grandson, of the French aristocrat and American Revolutionary War hero Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette.{{cite news|title=Miss Warren Weds Count. Few at Ceremony, Owing to Mrs. Goelet's Death|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/12/20/archives/miss-warren-weds-count-few-at-ceremony-owing-to-mrs-goelets-death.html|quote=As first planned, the wedding was to have been a large one, but, owing to the' recent death in Paris of Mrs. Robert Goelet, the bride's aunt, ...|work=The New York Times|date=December 20, 1912|access-date=15 April 2014}}{{cite news|title=Constance Warren to Wed. Her Engagement to Comte Guy de Lasteyrie Announced in Paris|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/10/26/archives/i-constance-warren-to-wed-i-her-engagement-to-comte-guy-de-by.html|quote=The engagement is announced of Comte Guy de Lasteyrie, son of the Marquis and Marquise de Lasteyrie of Paris, to Constance, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ... |work=The New York Times|date=October 26, 1912|access-date=25 July 2010}} They divorced in the early 1920s before his father's death in 1923, when he became the marquis de Lasteyrie du Saillant.{{cite news |last1=Giniger |first1=Henry |title=Lafayette Papers Found in Castle; An Unused Tower of a Chateau Near Paris Yields Trove of Lafayette's Papers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/06/19/archives/lafayette-papers-found-in-castle-an-unused-tower-of-a-chateau-near.html |access-date=18 March 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=19 June 1956}}
After her marriage in 1912, Warren lived in Paris and at a chateau in the French countryside.{{cite web |title=CONSTANCE WHITNEY WARREN (1888–1948) |url=https://www.gpgallery.com/artists/constance-whitney-warren |website=www.gpgallery.com |publisher=Gerald Peters Gallery |access-date=18 March 2020}}
Death and burial
Sadly, in November 1930, "she was committed to an institution for the insane, remaining there until her death eighteen years later on October 11, 1948, in Beacon, New York."{{cite book |last1=Gardner |first1=Albert Ten Eyck |last2=N.Y.) |first2=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York |title=American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |date=1965 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |page=161 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lCjdH3iQ01wC&pg=PA161 |access-date=18 March 2020 |language=en}} She was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Stonington, Connecticut.
References
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External links
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Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:Sculptors from New York City