Caroline Risque

Caroline Everett Risque Janis (August 20, 1883 – April 9, 1952) was an American painter, sculptor and a member of the early 20th-century artistic group The Potters.

[2] It was at Hosmer Hall that she met Sara Teasdale and in 1903 introduced her to Williamina Parrish; these early meetings led to the founding of The Potter's Wheel monthly magazine.

[4] Risque then attended the Art Students League of New York and finally the Académie Colarossi in Paris, studying under Paul Wayland Bartlett and Jean Antoine Injalbert.

Her ambition was to create decorative works: fountains, gates, portals and mantels; objects and subjects in which she could be entirely original.

[2] In 1915 Risque exhibited five pieces at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, a world fair held in San Francisco between February 20 and December 4 in 1915.

[citation needed] The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, the visual arts and design degree granting branch of Washington University in St. Louis, grants each year the Caroline Risque Janis Prize in Sculpture.

George Julian Zolnay had just completed the lions for Edward Gardner Lewis ' Lion Gates when he became director of the People's University's Art Academy and head of the sculpture division. In this photograph, he is in the studio with several of the sculpture honors students. Christian Kiehl is on the left at the high bench. Caroline Risque is on the left working on a piece of sculpture on a stool. Zolnay is seated at the desk just right of center. Nancy Coonsman is kneeling on the far right. The large pieces of sculpture in the room are Zolnay's work.
Clay Sketch by Caroline Risque, The Potter's Wheel, Volume 1, Number 7, page 20, May 1905
Bronze Sketch of a Child (from Life), sculpture by Caroline Risque with photographs by Williamina Parrish, The Potter's Wheel, Volume 2, Number 9, page 8, July 1906
Terra-cotta ash receiver by Caroline Risque, The Potter's Wheel, Volume 3, Number 3, page 12, January 1907