Kuhne Beveridge


Kühne Beveridge was an American sculptor the daughter of Phis Judson Beveridge and Ella Reutzger.. She was the granddaugther of the 16th Governor of Illinois John L. Beveridge. She studied under William R. O'Donovan in New York City, and under Rodin in Paris. Among her works are a statue called "Rhodesia," "Rough Rider Monument," a statue called "Lascire," which belongs to Dr. Jameson, busts of Cecil Rhodes, King Edward VII, Grover Cleveland, Adlai Stevenson, Joseph Jefferson, Buffalo Bill, Bryan Mahon, Tom L. Johnson, and many others. Beveridge was first noticed as an artist in the US in 1892, when her busts of former President Cleveland and Mr. Jefferson called favorable attention to her. In 1893, she married Charles Francis Coghlan, and soon discovered that he had a living wife at the time of her marriage and obtained a divorce. Before she went to South Africa Beveridge had executed several commissions for Cecil Rhodes and others living in that country. Kühne received an Honorable Mention in the Paris Exposition in 1900.. With the help of her mother she was also a made a statute "The Veiled Venus" for the 1900 Paris Expositionwhich was awarded a bronze medal at the Paris Salon and was placed in Leeds Museum, England
Beveridge married a second time, August 25, 1903 to an American, Mr. William B. Branson, who resided at Johannesburg, in the Transvaal. In 1907 she resided in London.In 1910 under her maiden name she exhibited in Leipzeig Germany a sculpture of man and woman called "The Vampire" [the expliotaion of woman by man