User:TaraInDC/sandbox/Bessie Stough Callender

Bessie Stough Callender (1889-1951) was an American sculptor best known for her stone carvings of stylized animals.

Callendar was rasied on a farm near Wichita, Kansas. In the early 1920s she moved to New York with her husband, Journalist Harold Callendar, where she studied art and modeling. She continued her education in Paris beginning in 1926 when her husband was assigned there, and worked in the studios of stone carvers Georges Hilbert and José de Creeft.

After her death, Harold Callendar donated several of Callendar's works to the American Museum of Art