SHERIDAN, CLARE

SHERIDAN, CLARE. [1921] Celebrated British artist who traveled the world sculpting busts of the famous–Guglielmo Marconi, Nikolai Lenin, Mohandas Gandhi, among them. Her work for Soviet subjects caused her to be labeled a “Bolshevik” during her visit to the U.S. in the early Twenties. These excerpts are taken from Sheridan’s My American Diary, published in New York by Boni and Liveright, 1922.