Upon turning sixty, and a lifetime of making art–Eleanor turned seriously to the task of creating sculpture. Her passion for art and her love for dance combined, as she began her "Women" Series. Eleanor studied anatomy, worked with models, and continuously sculpted until there was a mature nature to her renditions
As Eleanor worked – an affinity with the Renaissance came the to the foreground, through studies of Michelangelo, Bernini, Artemesia Genteleschi and Carravagio, all remarkable artists with extraordinary abilities to define the human form. Rounding out her studies with the turn of the century artists, such as Maillol, Rodin and Gaston Lachaise.
