Penelope Jencks

Sculptor

Penelope Jencks was born in 1936 in Baltimore, MD. Best known for her monumental sculpture of Eleanor Roosevelt at Riverside Park in New York, Penelope Jencks is also the artist behind the Samuel Eliot Morison, ''Sailor, Historian" statue, which stands on Commonwealth Avenue and Exeter Street in Boston, and the statue of Robert Frost at Amherst College in Amherst, MA. Her recent public work includes three musicians commissioned by John Williams, installed at Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox MA. 

Previous to studying under several mentors during her career as a sculptor, including Provincetown-based Hans Hofmann and sculptor Harold Tovish, Jencks attended Swarthmore College, where she studied art history and French before transferring to art school at Boston University, where she received a BFA. She has created numerous works in terra cotta and bronze, and spent several years living in Italy, where she had her works carved in stone and cast in bronze.  

Her solo exhibitions include Provincetown Art Museum; Boston University, where she received a prize from the AICA; Swarthmore College; Helen Schein Gallery, Boston; Landmark Gallery, NYC; Art Institute of Boston; Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA; Big Town Gallery, Rochester & Vergennes VT.

Jencks is a member of the National Academy of Design and the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She is also a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society. Her works can be found in private and public collections worldwide. Some of her notable public collections and commissions include: The White House Washington, D.C.; The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; The Maggie Cancer Care Center, Edinburgh, Scotland; the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA; the Bibliotecca di Pietrasanta (Italy); the City of New York, NY; the City of Toledo, OH; the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA; the National Academy of Design, New York, NY; Amherst College, Amherst, MA; Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Danbury Court House, Danbury, CT and Tanglewood, MA 

She is presently working on a sculpture of Mary Heaton Vorse for the Provincetown Public Arts Foundation to go at the Mary Heaton Vorse house in Provincetown MA.

She is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown MA and the Big Town Gallery, Rochester VT. 

WEBSITE:
 www.penelopejencks.com

HIGHLIGHTS:

https://www.amazon.com/Eleanor-Roosevelt-Riverside-Penelope-Jencks/dp/1508649529

https://www.amazon.com/Frost-Granite-Penelope-Jencks/dp/1537491393

https://www.amazon.ca/Three-Sculptures-Tanglewood-1994-2019/dp/1987733517

https://www.amazon.com/Growing-up-Beach-Penelope-Jencks/dp/1537495836