Dudley Pratt

His sculptural education included study under Charles Grafly, Antoine Bourdelle, and Alexander Archipenko.

Pratt married fellow sculptor Virginia Claflin while they were students at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

The couple moved to Seattle in 1925, and Pratt began teaching at the University of Washington's School of Art.

After Virginia's death in 1952, Pratt relocated to Croton Falls, New York, where he met and married the painter Colette (Finch) Halvorsen.

His 14-foot-tall (4.3 m) Carrara marble Gold Star Mother was a central part of the World War II memorial on the 1949 Seattle Public Safety Building by NBBJ, and his limestone The Reader adorns Holland Library on the Washington State University campus in Pullman, Washington.