Bessie Potter Vonnoh

Bessie Potter Vonnoh
Portrait by Robert Vonnoh, 1907
Born	Bessie Onahotema Potter (1872-08-17)August 17, 1872 St. Louis, Missouri
Died	March 8, 1955(1955-03-08) (aged 82) New York City, New York
Nationality	American
Known for	Sculpture
Spouse(s)	Robert Vonnoh (1899–1933, until his death) Edward L. Keyes (1948–1949, until his death)
Elected	National Academy of Design (1921) American Academy of Arts and Letters (1931)

Bessie Potter Vonnoh (August 17, 1872 – March 8, 1955) was an American sculptor best known for her small bronzes, mostly of domestic scenes, and for her garden fountains. Her stated artistic objective, as she told an interviewer in 1925, was to “look for beauty in the everyday world, to catch the joy and swing of modern American life.”^[1]