Edith Woodman Burroughs
One of the chief women sculptors of the United States is Edith Woodman Burroughs, born at Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, in 1871. She was a pupil at the New York Art Students’ League under Augustus Saint-Gaudens, later studying in Paris with Injalbert and Merson. In 1893 she was married to Bryson Burroughs, a New York artist. She has made a specialty of fountain sculpture. No one who has ever seen her Fountain of Youth at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition can forget it. It will always be a source of regret that the appropriation for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition sculpture was reduced, thus preventing the public from seeing the speaking, simple groups of “Arabian Nights Entertainments.” Mrs. Burroughs is represented at the Metropolitan Museum of New York by “John La Farge,” a remarkably interesting portrait head, full of character. She has the power of speaking her language in a few words - but just the right ones.