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Gail Sherman Corbett

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CORBETT, GAIL SHERMAN, American sculptor, wife of Harvey Wiley Corbett, born in 1873 in Syracuse, N.Y. She was educated in public and private schools, at the Art Students League in New York and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Later she was a pupil of Augustus Saint Gaudens. Her best-known works are the Hamilton S. White memorial and the Kirkpatrick fountain in Syracuse, the bronze entrance doors of the municipal group at Springfield, Mass., and the medallion head of Washington in the pediment of the George Washington National Masonic memorial at Alexandria, Va.