Adaline Kent

American, (1900–1957)

Kent was an influential member of the modernist artistic community in San Francisco. Born in Kentfield, California, in 1900, Kent attended Vassar College in 1923 and studied sculpture at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) in 1924. After graduation, she traveled to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Rodin disciple Antoine Bourdelle. In 1930, Kent returned to San Francisco, where she opened a sculpture studio and received many commissions for large-scale works, including a figurative sculpture for the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939–40.