Mabel Landrum Torrey

Mabel Landrum Torrey (June 23, 1886 – April 1, 1974) was an American sculptor best known for her statuettes and sculptures of children.

[2] She studied at the Colorado State College of Education where one day an art teacher looked at a bust she was modeling and said, "You are a sculptor."

[5][9] The resulting work, the "Wynken, Blynken and Nod Fountain", was dedicated in 1919 in Denver's Washington Park.

[5] The sculpture, which was based on the Eugene Field poem "Dutch Lullaby", remains a major Denver landmark.

In the 1930 edition of his History of American Sculpture, Lorado Taft described the fountain as Torrey's most important work.