Gertrude Katherine Lathrop

Gertrude Katherine Lathrop (December 24, 1896 – March 16, 1986 ) was an American sculptor known for her medallion work and sculptures of small animals.

Biography Nancy Lee (1922) is a bronze sculpture of a goat calf by Gertrude K. Lathrop.

Early life and education Lathrop was born in Albany, New York to artist Ida Pulis Lathrop and Cyrus Clark Lathrop. Her sister Dorothy P. Lathrop was an artist too.

She was awarded the Allied Artists of America's Medal of Honor in 1964. Three years later, in 1967, she was awarded the Pen and Brush Club's silver medal. In 1970, she won the John Sanford Saltus Gold Medal from the British Numismatic Society.

She was an accomplished medalist and modeled for portraits, but her main passion was sculpting animals. She said of it, "I chose to model animals because of their infinite variety of form and texture and their great beauty, for even the lowliest of them have beauty, yes even the ward bug, with his magnificent tusks." to Falls Village, Connecticut, where she would live for the rest of her life.

Collections Her work is included in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Albany Institute of History & Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

She died in Falls Village, Connecticut in 1986.