Constance Whitney Warren
Constance Whitney Warren was an American sculptor.Early life
She was born in New York City on January 17, 1888 to George Henry Warren II and Georgia "Daisy" Williams. Her parents had a townhouse in New York and a large cottage in Newport, Rhode Island.
Her maternal grandparents were George Henry Warren and Mary Caroline Warren. Among her extended family were uncles Whitney Warren and Lloyd Warren, prominent architects, and cousins Robert Walton Goelet and Edith Starr Miller.Career
During World War I, Constance chauffeured English staff officers.
After the war, she became a prominent sculptor and, a few years later, exhibited at the Paris Salon, while her reputation spread to the United States. Today she is known for various sculptures, including the 1921–25 Texas Cowboy Monument at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, the 1926–29 Tribute to Range Riders at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the 1924 Lariat Cowboy in Phoenix, Arizona.Personal life
On December 19, 1912, she married Count Guy de Lasteyrie at St Patrick's Cathedral. He was the eldest son of the Marquis de Lasteyrie and the former Olivia Elizabeth Goodlake. Count Guy was a direct descendant, a great-great grandson, of the French aristocrat and American Revolutionary War hero Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette. They divorced in the early 1920s before his father's death in 1923, when he became the marquis de Lasteyrie du Saillant.
After their marriage in 1912, she lived in Paris and a chateau in the French countryside. Sadly, in November 1930, "she was committed to an institution for the insane, remaining there until her death eighteen years later on October 11, 1948, in Beacon, New York." She was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Stonington, Connecticut.
