1) Anna Coleman Watts Ladd, born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on July 15, 1878 to June 3, 1939 (aged 60), was an American sculptor who devoted her time & skills in WWI to design prosthetics for the injured
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2) She was educated in Europe and studied sculpture in Paris and Rome. She studied with Bela Pratt for three years at the Boston Museum School.
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3) In 1914, she was founding member of the Guild of Boston Artists & exhibited in both the opening show and the traveling exhibition that followed. She later held a one woman show at the Guild’s gallery.
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4) She challenged herself on many artistic fronts & wrote two books: ‘The Joyous History of Hieronymus the Anonymous’ (1905) and ‘The Candid Adventurer’ (1913). She also wrote two unproduced plays.
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5) Soldiers came to Ladd’s studio to have a cast made of their face & their features sculpted onto clay or plasticine. She used real hair to create the eyelashes, eyebrows and mustaches.
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6) In 1932, the French Government honored her as a Knight (Chevalier) of the Legion of Honor, in recognition of the work she’d done. Her work is now called anaplastology.
