Thomas Waldo Story (December 9, 1854 – October 23, 1915) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet and literary editor, living for most of his life in

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Life

Story was born in

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in 1854 to the sculptor

William Wetmore Story William Wetmore Story (February 12, 1819 – October 7, 1895) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor. Life and career William Wetmore Story was the son of U.S. Supreme Court judge Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo (Wetmore) Story. ...

, son of early

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justice

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. While his parents lived in Rome, Waldo was educated in England at

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and at

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. Afterwards, he moved to Rome himself where he shared a studio with his father and, after the latter's death in 1895, took over his lease of an apartment in the

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. In 1883 Waldo Story married Ada Maud Broadwood (1856-1932), the eldest child of Thomas Capel Broadwood and Mary Davidson Hennin. In 1912, he was married for a second time to

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Bessie Pickens Abott. Waldo Story frequently stayed in England where he was friends with

James Abbott McNeill Whistler James Abbott McNeill Whistler (; July 10, 1834July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral a ...

. He is best known for his ''Fountain of Love'' in the grounds of

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. He died at his home in New York City in 1915.

Gallery

File:Mrs. Waldo Story.jpg, ''Mrs. Ada Maud Story'' by

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, 1883 File:Thomas Waldo Story, Fountain of Love (1897, Cliveden, Taplow, UK) - 20051029.jpg, Fountain of Love File:Ascott House fountain.png, Sculpture by Thomas Waldo Story at the Ascott House, Buckinghamshire

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Story, Thomas Waldo 1854 births 1915 deaths American literary editors 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists 19th-century American sculptors 19th-century American male artists American male sculptors People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford American expatriates in Italy American expatriates in the United Kingdom American expatriates in France Broadwood family