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Biography
Ivy H Gardner (also known as Jane Ivy Hunter Fergusson Proudfoot) was born in 1894 and died in 1975. She was active as a sculptor and modeller of mainly figurative pieces between 1920-1957. Her speciality was sculptural portraits of children. She was born in Greenock, where the McClean Museum and Art Gallery hold her work but spent the majority of her working life living in Glasgow. Gardner attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1914-1925, and later became a member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists. She was seen to show great promise so later became the assistant to sculptors Benno Schotz and Alexander Proudfoot (1878-1957) who she married two years before he died.

Exhibitions
She exhibited at the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, and the Royal Academy in London. A member of the Soroptimists' International Glasgow West Club. Won the Lauder Award four times between 1929 and 1953. Her works include The Blind Beggar (1927), The Wounded Bird (1935), Head of a Child (1936), Design for a Duck Pond (1938), and Madonna and Child (1951).