Leila Usher

[1][2][3] She was a pupil of English sculptor H. H. Kitson in Boston, American George Brewster in Cambridge, and Irish-American Augustus Saint-Gaudens in New York, and also studied abroad in Paris and Rome.

[1][4][5] Her best-known work is a 1902 bust of educator Booker T. Washington commissioned by the Tuskegee Institute.

[6][7] She produced bas-relief portraits of many other prominent figures such as scholar Francis James Child, minister Elijah Kellogg, and geologist John Wesley Powell.

[1][4][8] Usher also created a bronze medallion of social reformer Susan B. Anthony,[9] presented on April 21, 1902, to Bryn Mawr College.

[10] On September 27, 1915, Usher exhibited a replica of medallion at the Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of Woman Suffrage Campaign held in New York, notable because it was the only portrait of a suffragist out of the 153 works displayed.

Bas-relief portrait of paleontologist Nathaniel Shaler , c. 1909
Black and white photograph of a bust of Booker T. Washington by Leila Usher as appeared in his writing "Heroes in black skin" in The Century Magazine V.66 No. 4 September 1903.
Bust of Booker T. Washington by Leila Usher as appeared in his writing "Heroes in black skin" in The Century Magazine V.66 No. 4, September 1903