Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper (April 8, 1875 – March 4, 1937) was an American sculptor. Early life and education Cooper was born in Glenwood, Iowa and was raised in Denver, Colorado. She studied under Preston Powers (son of the sculptor Hiram Powers) then at the Art Institute of Chicago with Lorado Taft and the Art Students League of New York through about 1901. Career Cooper is best known for her bronze figure of Sacajawea (Sacajawea and Jean-Baptiste) originally produced as the centerpiece for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon, 1905, unveiled in a ceremony attended by Susan B. Anthony and other prominent feminists. This figure now stands in Washington Park.