Geneva Mercer

Geneva Mercer
Geneva Mercer with a model sculpture for the Gran Teatro de la Habana in Havana, Cuba. Taken circa 1911-1914.
Born(1889-01-27)January 27, 1889
Jefferson, Alabama
DiedMarch 2, 1984(1984-03-02) (aged 95)
Demopolis, Alabama
Resting placeJefferson Cemetery, Jefferson, Alabama
Known forSculpture, painting

Geneva Mercer (January 27, 1889 – March 2, 1984) was an American artist from Alabama.[1] Best known as a sculptor, she was also an accomplished painter in her later years. Although most of her early work with Italian sculptor Giuseppe Moretti was done under his name, her best known individual works include Joyous Boy, Pied Piper, the Flimp Fountain, and several Julia Tutwiler sculptures located at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, University of Alabama, and University of Montevallo.[2][3][4] She was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1989.[5]

  1. ^ "Geneva Mercer (1889–1884)". Alabama Women's Hall of Fame. State of Alabama. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
  2. ^ "Mercer, Geneva". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
  3. ^ "Mercer, Geneva". MMFA Online Collection. Montgomery Museum of Fine Art. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
  4. ^ Marengo County Heritage Book Committee (2000). The Heritage of Marengo County, Alabama. Clanton, Alabama: Heritage Pub. Consultants. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-891647-58-1.
  5. ^ "Inductees". Alabama Women's Hall of Fame. State of Alabama. Retrieved March 1, 2012.