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Ellen Axson Wilson Memorial, (sculpture). Artist:  Hunter, Stephanie, sculptor. Title:  Ellen Axson Wilson Memorial, (sculpture). Dates:  2015. Dedicated Sept. 17, 2015. Medium:  Bronze. Description:  Portrait of former Rome resident Ellen Axson Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson, standing at an easel, her paint palette held in her left hand as she paints a scene along the Oostanaula River Subject:  Portrait female -- Wilson, Woodrow, Mrs. (Ellen Louise Axson) -- Full length Occupation -- Political -- First Lady Occupation -- Art -- Painter Object -- Art Tool -- Easel Object -- Art Tool -- Palette Object -- Art Tool -- Artist's Brush Object -- Art Object -- Painting Object Type:  Sculpture Owner:  Coadministered by City of Rome, Rome, Georgia Coadministered by Floyd County, Georgia Located Town Green, 301 Tribune Street, East end of the Chief John Ross Memorial pedestrian bridge, Rome, Georgia 30161 Remarks:  Ellen Axson Wilson was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1860 and moved to Rome in 1866. Her father, the Reverend Samuel Edward Axson, was the minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Rome. Her wedding to Woodrow Wilson took place in June 1885 at the First Presbyterian Church, and following her death in 1914, her funeral was also held at the First Presbyterian Church. She is buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome, Georgia. As a talented American impressionist artist, she studied at the Art Students League in New York, and summer art colonies in Lyme, Connecticut and Cornish, New Hampshire. The statue cost approximately $60,000 and was sponsored by the Rome Area Council for the Arts with funds raised from local corporations and donors. References:  Inventory Staff, 2016. Roberts, Layton, 2016. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 71501285   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 71501285 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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