Alice Robertson Carr de Creeft

In 1922, Carr became the first woman commissioned to create a public sculpture in Seattle, when she designed a fountain memorial for Francis Xavier Prefontaine in the city's Woodland Park. "The Fountain" included a 24-foot-long cast-concrete frieze, surrounding a semi-circular basin. She designed another panoramic memorial for the park in 1924, following the death of President Warren G. Harding. The Harding Memorial was dedicated in 1925.^[4][5][6] She spent several months in Hawaii after these back-to-back projects.^[7]

She began assisting sculptor José de Creeft in Spain in 1927.^[8][9] In 1930, she won a Crowninshield Award at the Stockbridge Art Exhibit in Massachusetts.^[10] After her divorce in 1939,^[11] she made sculptures, often in bronze with equestrian subjects,^[12] and taught art in Santa Barbara, California, for almost sixty years. She also designed floats for the Rose Parade in Pasadena.^[4] In 1983 she exhibited works alongside those of her daughter and granddaughter, at the Maryland Fine Arts Gallery in Monkton, Maryland.^[13]

Carr married José de Creeft in 1928, in London. They had two children, son William and daughter Nina de Creeft Ward, who became an artist herself. They divorced in 1939.^[11] She died in 1996, at the age of 96, in Cedar Falls, Iowa.^[14] Her memorials in Seattle's Woodland Park were removed during renovations in the 1970s; some of the bas-relief panels by Carr were destroyed,^[15] but some of the component statues were donated to the Chief Seattle Council of Boy Scouts.^[4][5]