Nancy Coonsman

Nancy Coonsman Hahn (August 28, 1887 – January 27, 1976) was an American sculptor who won the commission for the Missouri War Memorial in Cheppy, France.

Rodney Coonsman, her brother, was interested in the financial sheet of a local newspaper, and his wife was an artist of considerable reputation.

[1][2] She then studied in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Charles Grafly, then in New York City under Abastenia St. Leger Eberle.

There were two figures, and hers was kneeling down on flat stones catching the water in a lily leaf, which she held in her hand, as it trickled through the rock.

[1] Coonsman was selected over a number of competitors to execute sculpture for a fountain for the Kincaid Memorial to be located in the sunken garden behind the Public School Library.

1885) in 1918 and they had one son, Charless Hahn (February 13, 1919 – March 17, 1999),[8] a stamp dealer and collector who wrote a column on philately for the Chicago Sun Times.