Vicken von Post Totten

She studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts with Gerhard Henning, known for his pieces produced by the Royal Danish Porcelain Factory.^[4] She also studied in Paris.

She illustrated the first edition of Laura Fitinghoff’s children's book Children from Frostmofjället (1907).^[5] She worked for the Rörstrand Porcelain Factory from the summer of 1915 to 1921, where she modelled approximately thirty figurines that were put into production.^[1]

She married sculptor Börje Börjeson in 1915, and separated from him in 1920.^[2] In 1921, she traveled to the United States to participate in a Washington, D.C. exhibition,^[2] met and married architect George Oakley Totten Jr.^[6]

Post Totten opened and operated an art school in Washington D.C. from 1921 to 1941.^[7] She had an acclaimed exhibition at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1934.^[2] She was a member of the National Association of Women Artists.^[3]

Notable works include "Symbol of Flight" (1927), a bronze sculpture that was presented by the women of Washington, D.C. to Charles Lindbergh;^[2] and eleven limestone bas-relief panels depicting the history of transportation (1932) modeled for the façade of the main post office in Waterbury, Connecticut, a building designed by her husband.^[8] Several U.S. post offices contain New Deal art by Post Totten. Her plaster of Paris mural, "Pastoral of Spencer," was installed in the Spencer, West Virginia Post Office in 1938.^[9][10]

Works by her are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[11] the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden,^[12] and other museums.