Massachusetts native Hermon Atkins MacNeil trained in Paris and assisted on sculptures for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. He designed the Standing Liberty quarter and was one of a dozen sculptors invited to compete in the Pioneer Woman competition for Ponca City, Oklahoma, in 1927. Although he did not win that competition, his works include sculptures for the east pediment of the Supreme Court building, Washington, DC.

From the exhibition:Frontier to Foundry: the Making of Small Bronze Sculpture in the Gilcrease Collection, December 2014 - March 2015.
Ann Boulton Young, Associate Conservator for the Gilcrease Museum, 2014