Janet de Coux (or De Coux[1]) (October 5, 1904 – December 1999) was an American sculptor born in Niles, Michigan to Bertha Wright de Coux and the Reverend Charles John de Coux. She is best remembered for her ecclesiastical reliefs and statues.
Carnegie Institute of Technology (1924-1926), Fellow at Tiffany Foundation (Summer 1927), New York School of Industrial Design (1928-1929), Rhode Island School of Design (1929-1930), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1930-1931), Instructor, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Association Prize, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (1936), Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1938), Honored as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania, The Lindsay Memorial Prize, The Widener Gold medal, Honored as Pittsburgh Artist of the Year
During the Great Depression US President Franklin Deleno Roosevelt initiated the New Deal. One of its programs was the Federal Art Projects under which the federal government hired artists, mostly painters and sculptors to create art for a variety of public places, often post offices. De Coux carved a relief, "Vacation Time" for the post office in Girard, Pennsylvania. In 1984 the piece was listed as “in storage.”[6]
Later career
German critic Anton Henze selected de Coux's “St. Benedict” as one of the United States’ notable, recent (1956) contributions to Roman Catholic art in his work ‘’Contemporary Church Art.[7]
Work
Her work can be found at the following locations:[8]
^Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston (1990), p. 282-282.
^Evert, Marilyn, Discovering Pittsburgh’s Sculpture, photographs by Vernon Gay, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh (1983), p. 401.
^Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, Temple University Press, Philadelphia (1984), p. 226.
^Henze, Anton and Theodor Filthaut, Contemporary Church Art, translated by Cecily Hastings, edited by Mauricce Lavanoux, Sheed & Ward, New York, p. 114.
