Mabel Conkling (American, 1871 -1966)
Born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and married to sculptor Paul Conkling - the Conklings lived primarily in New York City but spent the summers in Boothbay Harbor. Mable Conkling studied in Paris for ten years, including at the Academie Julian and Academy Colarossi. Among her teachers were James McNeill Whister, Raphael Collin, Augustus St. Gaudens and Frederick MacMonnies, who was especially influential in her becoming a sculptor.
She exhibited in the Paris Salon and in 1900 at the the Expo Universelle. Other exhibition venues were the St. Louis Expo of 1904; the National Academy of Design, 1907-1929; Pennsylvania Academy, 1911-1927; Art Institute of Chicago, 1916, 1919, 1922 and 1926; and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.
