Bashka Paeff (Belarusian: Башка Паэф) (August 12, 1889 — January 24, 1979), was an American sculptor active near Boston, Massachusetts.

In addition to completing programs in drawing, painting, and art education, she studied sculpture with Cyrus Edwin Dallin and graduated in 1911.

One of her early prominent sculptures was the Children of Youth podium for Brucemore, the Cedar Rapids, Iowa estate home of breakfast cereal magnate George Bruce Douglas.

Minor changes accommodated both men, and the revised sculpture was installed in 1926 in what is now called John Paul Jones Memorial Park.

[12] In 1942, the Leage of American Pen-Women commissioned her to sculpt a bust of the famous composer Amy Beach for her 75th birthday, and that piece was donated to Washington's Phillips Collection.

[13] Other notable pieces by Paeff include a fountain sculpture of a small boy with bird at the Boston Public Garden (Arlington Street entrance),[5] a statue of Warren G. Harding's pet Airedale "Laddie Boy" cast from 19,000 US penny coins at the Smithsonian Institution,[14] a bas relief of Ellen Swallow Richards[15] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a relief depicting the Battle of Lexington near Buckman Tavern in Lexington, Massachusetts.

[17] The slightly larger than life sculpture depicted Brandeis from the waist up and was to be placed initially on a three-foot pedestal in the Hayden Science Building.