Luella_A._Varney_Serrao

Luella A. Varney Serrao

Luella A. Varney Serrao

American sculptor

Luella A. Varney Serrao (1865–1935) was an American sculptor. She was known for her portraits of notable Americans.

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Biography

Serrao née Varney was born on August 11, 1865, in Angola, New York.[1] She moved to Cleveland as a young girl, where she studied at the Cleveland School of Art.[2] After high school she moved to Rome, Italy where she earned a degree from the University of Rome. In Rome she met Teodoro Serrao whom she married in 1889.[3] They lived in Rome. Upon his death in 1907 she returned to Cleveland.[3][4]

Serrao created portraits of Susan B. Anthony, William Howard Brett,[5] Mary Baker Eddy, Julia Ward Howe, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain[4] and Henry Mower Rice.[6]

She exhibited her work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago.[7]

Serrao exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[8]

Her work, “An Archbishop of Odessa” can be found in the Roman Catholic Church in Odessa, Russia.[9]

She died in 1935.[7]

  • Susan B. Anthony, c. 1884
  • Mary Baker Eddy, c. 1889
  • Mark Twain, c. 1892
  • Henry Rice, c. 1910
  • William Howard Brett, c. 1918

References

  1. [1]
    Serrao, Luella Varney. Oxford Art Online. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00167916. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7. Retrieved 26 September 2018. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  2. [2]
    Petteys, Chris, “Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900”, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985 p. 639
  3. [3]
    "A portrait bust of Mary Baker Eddy" (PDF). Quarterly News - Longyear Museum and Historical Society. 28 (Fall/Winter): 430–432. 1991–92. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  4. [4]
    "Madame Luella A. Varney Serrao Bust of Mary Baker Eddy". Mary Baker Eddy Library. 1 September 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  5. [5]
    "William Howard Brett, Marble Bust". cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  6. [6]
    Opitz 1986, p. 838.
  7. [7]
    "Luella Varney Serrao". AskArt. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  8. [8]
    Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  9. [9]
    Opitz, Glenn B., ed. (1986). Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers. Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo Books. p. 838.
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