Simone Marthe Brangier Boas

Simone Marthe Brangier Boas (February 3, 1895 – June 17, 1981) was a French-born American modernist sculptor who spent her career in Baltimore, Maryland.

Simone Marthe Brangier was born on February 3, 1895 in La Crèche, France, the daughter of Pierre Armand Brangier and Marie-Louise Geiser. She arrived in the United States in 1904 and became a naturalized US citizen in 1921. She graduated from the University of California Berkeley in 1917 and studied under Leo Lentelli at the California School of Fine Arts. At Berkeley, she met philosophy PhD student George Boas while attending a seminar on The Self; they married in 1921.

During World War I, Brangier went to France to do relief work with refugees, work for which she was later awarded the Medal of French Gratitude. She and George Boas were able to remain in contact in France as he enlisted as a lieutenant in the US Army and served as aide de camp to General Charles Kilburn. After the war, she studied under Antoine Bourdelle at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Boas also lectured at the Baltimore Museum and taught other female sculptors.

Boas published some translations from the French, including one of Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher's biography of Buddha.

Simone Marthe Brangier Boas died on 17 June 1981 at a nursing home in Philadelphia at the age of 86.