Poems.
Whitney, Anne. Poems. Boston: Privately Printed, 1906.
8vo.; t.e.g.; green cloth.
First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper in pencil: “To Sophia Kirk, from her friend A.E. July 24-1907.” Abolitionist and poet Anne Whitney (1821-1915), a native of Watertown, Massachusetts, began creating portrait busts in her mid-thirties. After studying in New York, Philadelphia, and at the Brooklyn hospital, she entered her first exhibit in 1860 at the National Academy of Design. She continued her studies in Rome, and went on to exhibit in London and Boston. In 1873 she won the commission for the statue of Samuel Adams for the new Statuary Hall at the national Capitol. Her subjects included several Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucy Stone, and Mary Livermore, as well as several Harvard professors. Her bust of Leif Ericson is at the Smithsonian and over 100 of her sculptures have been catalogued there and elsewhere.
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