Julia Bracken Wendt was born in Apple River, Illinois, to Andrew and Mary MacNamara Bracken, one of 12 children. She moved with her parents to Galena, Illinois in 1876.
While working as a domestic, at 17 years old, her employer Alice Stahl became so interested in her art that she sponsored her education at the Art Institute of Chicago. She became one of Lorado Taft's female assistants (known as 'White Rabbits') helping to complete the decorations at the 1893 World Fair where her independently-commissioned statue representing the women of Illinois ("Illinois Welcoming the Nations") was exhibited at the Illinois pavilion and later placed in the Illinois state capitol building along with her statue of James Monroe.
She married William Wendt, also an artist, 27 June 1906 in the Holy Name Cathedral. They soon moved to California, and where she created an eleven-foot high work "The Three Graces: Art, Science and History (1914)--draped goddesses holding up electrically lit globes--on display in the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Julia taught sculpture for seven years at the Otis Art Institute. Julia and William had no children.
Some of her other works include:
*Battle Monument-Missionary Ridge, Tenn.
*James W. Scott Bust-housed at the Galena Library
*"Florence", bust of a child
*Flint Memorial- L.A. City Hall
*Lincoln the Lawyer-stands in Lincoln Park, L.A.
*John Steven McGroarty bust-donated to the San Gabriel Mission
*Drawing of the National Women's Trade Union League seal, ca. 1908-9
*relief sculpture of John Muir
* Birds, c. 1930
*The Tree of Life
Some of the prizes she won:
1898-1st Sculpture prize in Chicago
1905-1st prize of the Municipal Art League in Chicago
1915-won a medal in the San Diego exposition
1918- Mrs. William Preston Harrison prize, California
While working as a domestic, at 17 years old, her employer Alice Stahl became so interested in her art that she sponsored her education at the Art Institute of Chicago. She became one of Lorado Taft's female assistants (known as 'White Rabbits') helping to complete the decorations at the 1893 World Fair where her independently-commissioned statue representing the women of Illinois ("Illinois Welcoming the Nations") was exhibited at the Illinois pavilion and later placed in the Illinois state capitol building along with her statue of James Monroe.
She married William Wendt, also an artist, 27 June 1906 in the Holy Name Cathedral. They soon moved to California, and where she created an eleven-foot high work "The Three Graces: Art, Science and History (1914)--draped goddesses holding up electrically lit globes--on display in the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Julia taught sculpture for seven years at the Otis Art Institute. Julia and William had no children.
Some of her other works include:
*Battle Monument-Missionary Ridge, Tenn.
*James W. Scott Bust-housed at the Galena Library
*"Florence", bust of a child
*Flint Memorial- L.A. City Hall
*Lincoln the Lawyer-stands in Lincoln Park, L.A.
*John Steven McGroarty bust-donated to the San Gabriel Mission
*Drawing of the National Women's Trade Union League seal, ca. 1908-9
*relief sculpture of John Muir
* Birds, c. 1930
*The Tree of Life
Some of the prizes she won:
1898-1st Sculpture prize in Chicago
1905-1st prize of the Municipal Art League in Chicago
1915-won a medal in the San Diego exposition
1918- Mrs. William Preston Harrison prize, California
Julia Bracken Wendt was born in Apple River, Illinois, to Andrew and Mary MacNamara Bracken, one of 12 children. She moved with her parents to Galena, Illinois in 1876.
While working as a domestic, at 17 years old, her employer Alice Stahl became so interested in her art that she sponsored her education at the Art Institute of Chicago. She became one of Lorado Taft's female assistants (known as 'White Rabbits') helping to complete the decorations at the 1893 World Fair where her independently-commissioned statue representing the women of Illinois ("Illinois Welcoming the Nations") was exhibited at the Illinois pavilion and later placed in the Illinois state capitol building along with her statue of James Monroe.
She married William Wendt, also an artist, 27 June 1906 in the Holy Name Cathedral. They soon moved to California, and where she created an eleven-foot high work "The Three Graces: Art, Science and History (1914)--draped goddesses holding up electrically lit globes--on display in the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Julia taught sculpture for seven years at the Otis Art Institute. Julia and William had no children.
Some of her other works include:
*Battle Monument-Missionary Ridge, Tenn.
*James W. Scott Bust-housed at the Galena Library
*"Florence", bust of a child
*Flint Memorial- L.A. City Hall
*Lincoln the Lawyer-stands in Lincoln Park, L.A.
*John Steven McGroarty bust-donated to the San Gabriel Mission
*Drawing of the National Women's Trade Union League seal, ca. 1908-9
*relief sculpture of John Muir
* Birds, c. 1930
*The Tree of Life
Some of the prizes she won:
1898-1st Sculpture prize in Chicago
1905-1st prize of the Municipal Art League in Chicago
1915-won a medal in the San Diego exposition
1918- Mrs. William Preston Harrison prize, California
While working as a domestic, at 17 years old, her employer Alice Stahl became so interested in her art that she sponsored her education at the Art Institute of Chicago. She became one of Lorado Taft's female assistants (known as 'White Rabbits') helping to complete the decorations at the 1893 World Fair where her independently-commissioned statue representing the women of Illinois ("Illinois Welcoming the Nations") was exhibited at the Illinois pavilion and later placed in the Illinois state capitol building along with her statue of James Monroe.
She married William Wendt, also an artist, 27 June 1906 in the Holy Name Cathedral. They soon moved to California, and where she created an eleven-foot high work "The Three Graces: Art, Science and History (1914)--draped goddesses holding up electrically lit globes--on display in the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Julia taught sculpture for seven years at the Otis Art Institute. Julia and William had no children.
Some of her other works include:
*Battle Monument-Missionary Ridge, Tenn.
*James W. Scott Bust-housed at the Galena Library
*"Florence", bust of a child
*Flint Memorial- L.A. City Hall
*Lincoln the Lawyer-stands in Lincoln Park, L.A.
*John Steven McGroarty bust-donated to the San Gabriel Mission
*Drawing of the National Women's Trade Union League seal, ca. 1908-9
*relief sculpture of John Muir
* Birds, c. 1930
*The Tree of Life
Some of the prizes she won:
1898-1st Sculpture prize in Chicago
1905-1st prize of the Municipal Art League in Chicago
1915-won a medal in the San Diego exposition
1918- Mrs. William Preston Harrison prize, California
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