Early life and education Lathrop was born in
Albany,
New York to artist
Ida Pulis Lathrop and Cyrus Clark Lathrop. Her sister
Dorothy P. Lathrop was an artist too. She was awarded the
Allied Artists of America's Medal of Honor in 1964. Three years later, in 1967, she was awarded the
Pen and Brush Club's silver medal. In 1970, she won the John Sanford Saltus Gold Medal from the
British Numismatic Society. She was an accomplished
medalist and modeled for portraits, but her main passion was sculpting animals. She said of it, "I chose to model animals because of their infinite variety of form and texture and their great beauty, for even the lowliest of them have beauty, yes even the ward bug, with his magnificent tusks." to Falls Village, Connecticut, where she would live for the rest of her life. == Collections ==