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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
BESSIE P. VONNOH, SCULPTOR, WAS 82

Widow of Dr. Edward Keyes Is Dead—Her Works Won Many Medals in Shows

Mrs. Bessie Potter Vonnoh Keyes, who was well known as a sculptor under her professional name of Bessie Potter Vonnoh, died yesterday at her residence, 33 West Sixty-seventh Street, at the age of 82. She was the widow of Dr. Edward L. Keyes, a leading urologist, who died in March 1949, nine months after their marriage.

Among the works of the sculptor are her bronze bird bath fountain in the Children's Garden in Central Park and the Roosevelt Memorial Fountain in Oyster Bay, L. I.  The former work is a memorial to Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of "Little Lord Fauntleroy." The Roosevelt Fountain stands in the Audubon Society's Bird Sanctuary, which is near Theodore Roosevelt's grave.

Bessie Potter was born in St. Louis and received her professional education at the Art Institute in Chicago, and under Lorado Taft. In 1899 she was married to Robert Vonnoh, painter, whose death occurred some years before her marriage to Dr. Keyes.

Her awards included medals at the Paris Salon, 1900; the National Academy of Design, 1921; St. Louis Exposition, 1904; Pan-Pacific Exposition, 1915; prizes, at Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1928; and at the National Academy of Design.

Examples of her sculpture are to be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Fairmount Park, Philadelphia; American Museum of National History, New York, and the Senate Building, Washington.

She was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1931.