Born in Cincinnati, Ohio. The attended Smith College 1930 to 1932 and later graduated from Columbia University in 1932. She also studied sculpture at the Art Students League. Married Robert Stoner Chamberlain October 25, 1941. They had one son. She was a practicing sculptor with a primary interest in portrait sculpture.

She did extensive research in the National Archives. She contributed numerous articles to The Numismatist on our national medals, their creators and their subjects. She won several Heath Literary Awards.

Her articles were re-published in three volumes: Studies on John Gadsby Chapman, American Medals and Medalists, and Studies on American Painters and Sculpture of the Ninteenth Century. She died in Alexandria, Virginia.

bio: EAB 33 (photo) obit: NUM 75 May 1962 page 613