Enid Yandell

H-Kentucky Enid Yandell

Archive Item published by Randolph Hollingsworth on Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Project Name: Kentucky Woman Suffrage

Name of Historic Site: Cave Hill Cemetery

Event(s)/Use associated with woman/group/site: Burial site of sculptor Enid Bland Yandell (1896-1934) who supported the woman suffrage movement

County: Jefferson

Town/City: Louisville

Zip Code: 40204 Street Address: 701 Baxter Avenue

Associated Organization: Cave Hill Cemetery

Years of Importance: 1912-1920 Geographic Location:

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Your Affiliation: Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project

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The sculptor Enid Bland Yandell (6 October 1869 – 12 or 13 June 1934) was a strong advocate for women's rights. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Yandell traveled extensively and was one of the first women to join the National Sculpture Society. She set up her first artist's studio in her parents' home on Broadway (between 3rd & 4th Street) in Louisville as early as 1891. She lived for two years in Chicago while working in the artist community working on the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, then she moved to New York City and lived at 23 East 75th Street with her studio located at . She often traveled to Paris and lived there from 1895-1903 while living with the Hungarian expatriate Baroness Geysa Hortense de Braunecker (1869-1960). She had a studio in the Impasse du Main while living in Paris. In 1908 she founded the Branstock School in the old Thaxter Academy building, and operated a tea house and garden nearby while living in a home at the corner of Davis Lane and School Street in Edgartown, Massachusetts. Meanwhile, she got involved with the vibrant activism in New York Ciity with the working women's campaigns for women's suffrage - participating in at least one suffrage parade that has been documented by biographer Juilee Decker with a photograph of her marching at the head of a group of women sculptors in New York City. She also contributed to at least two suffrage-related art exhibits in New York. She died in Boston, Mass. and was buried in Louisville next to her parents and sister Maud at the Cave Hill Cemetery. Her grave site is in Section O, Lot 396.

"A Famous American," The Evening Bulletin [Maysville, Ky.] (29 Aug. 1896): 7 Enid Yandell papers, circa 1890-circa 1901, 1986. Smithsonian Archives of American Art Yandell, Enid. "Sculpture," The [Lincoln, Neb.] Courier (20 July 1901): 3-4. Enid Yandell, FindAGrave.com memorial Obituary: Miss Yandell’s Ashes Arrive Here Today - transcribed for Cave Hill Cemetery website Randolph Hollingsworth, "Enid Bland Yandell (1869-1934), Sculptor from Louisville and Suffragist,"

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Reference source of Information: Juilee Decker, Enid Yandell: Kentucky’s Pioneer Sculptor (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2019). Also see the Enid Yandell Papers, Manuscript Department, Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY.