Mabel Conkling
Frederick William MacMonnies, 1904
Born	Mabel Viola Harris (1871-11-17)November 17, 1871 Boothbay, Maine, U.S
Died	October 11, 1966(1966-10-11) (aged 94) Boothbay Harbor, Maine, U.S.
Education	Académie Julian Académie Vitti Académie Carmen Académie Colarossi
Spouse	David Paul Burleigh Conkling
Children	2

Mabel Harris Conkling (November 17, 1871 – October 11, 1966) was an American sculptor, and president of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors from 1926 to 1928.^[1]

Mabel Viola Harris was born in Boothbay, Maine, the daughter of Charles Thomas Harris and Orissa Edna Preble Harris. After graduating from Boothbay Harbor High School,^[2] She studied art in Paris,^[3] at the Académie Julian, the Académie Vitti, the Académie Carmen, and the Académie Colarossi.^[4] Among her instructors were William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Raphaël Collin, Luc-Olivier Merson, and Frederick William MacMonnies.^[5] A 1904 portrait of Mabel Conkling by MacMonnies was called "the finest portrait MacMonnies has yet made."^[6]

Mabel Harris Conkling's work was included in the 1900 Paris Exposition, the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the 1908 Baltimore Sculpture Exhibition, at the National Academy of Design,^[7] Harrisburg City Hall,^[8] and many other shows. She specialized in public sculptures, including fountains, relief panels, trophies, and cemetery urns. She also made portrait busts in bronze, and bas relief medallions. A bas relief bronze portrait of Ethel Barrymore, by Mabel Conkling, is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.^[9] A bronze statue by Conkling was presented to theatre professional Samuel Roxy Rothafel in 1931,^[10] and a bronze loving cup by Conkling was presented to musician Walter Damrosch in 1933, both presentations by the New York Federation of Women's Clubs.^[11]

Conkling was president of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors from 1926 to 1928.^[12] She was still on the board when the organization changed its name to the National Association of Women Artists in 1941.^[13] Conkling was also president of the Maine Women's Club of New York.^[14][15]

In 1901 Mabel Viola Harris married a fellow artist, David Paul Burleigh Conkling. They had two daughters, Pauline and Natalie. She was widowed in 1926,^[16] sold her four-story Greenwich Village residence and studio at 26 West 8th Street in 1940,^[17] and died in 1966, aged 94 years, in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.^[18]