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Abastenia St Leger Eberle

Abastenia St Leger Eberle (1878 - 1942) was active/lived in New York, Iowa.  Abastenia Eberle is known for Sculpture-immigrant figure.

A sculptor of highly realistic figures, Abastenia Eberle was especially focused on children of the Lower East Side of New York City when that part of the city was full of immigrants and of resulting social problems.  With the eye of a photojournalist and without sentimentality, she recorded the lives of these people including the plight of immigrant females in a piece titled White Slave.  This sculpture was her entry in the New York 1913 Armory Show and shocked people because it showed a girl being sold into white slavery.  Other works including The Dance of the Ghetto Children and Roller Skating showed youngsters at play, having spontaneous fun.

Eberle was born in Webster City, Iowa, and was raised primarily in Canton, Ohio where her father was a doctor who took her on house calls including to the home of a sculptor who inspired her career.   She first studied with Frank Vogan, a local artist. When she was twenty, she m   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1919 characters.]  Artist bio

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