biografía de Rudulph EVANS (1878-1960)

Lugar de nacimiento: Washington, DC

Lugar de defunción: Washington, DC

Direcciones: NYC (1947); Arlington, VA (1959)

Profesión: Sculptor

Estudios: Corcoran Sch. Art; ASL; …cole des Beaux-Arts; Académie Julian, Paris, 1898; also with Falguiere, Rodin in Paris; Dimbar?

Exposiciones: Worlds Fair, Chicago, 1893; Society of Washington Artists, 1901; AIC, 1916; PAFA, 1920, 1939-42; Wash. WCC; Salons of Am., 1934; WMAA. Awards: medal, Paris Salon, 1898, 1914; Watrous Gold Medal for Sculpture, NAD, 1919; Legion of Honor, Paris; Crown of Italy, Rome; Medal of Honor, NSS, 1959

Asociaciones: Wash. Soc. FA, 1905-06; NA; NSS; NAD, 1929; Paris AAA; Allied AA; NIAL, 1926.

Obra: statues: U.S. Capitol (William Jennings Bryan and J. Sterling Morton); Luxembourg Mus.; MMA; CGA; Detroit Inst. Art; Colorado Springs FAC; NY Univ.; Princeton Univ.; U.S. War College, Wash., DC; Pan-American Union; Nelson Art Gal.; Wooley Mem., Detroit; Huntington College, SC; McKinney Mem., Greenwich, CT; Kiernan Mem., Greenbay, WI; Jefferson Mem., Wash., DC (statue of Thomas Jefferson, 1843); Bureau Am. Republics, Wash.; mem., Nebraska City & Hall of Fame, NY; State Capitol Building, Richmond, VA (bronze statue of General Robert E. Lee); Century of Progress Exh., Chicago; Nat. Portrait Gal.; State Capitol Building, NE

Comentarios: His first serious work was done in the studio of the well known architect and artist, George Oakley Totten, Jr., in Wash., DC. His statue, The Golden Hour," which was purchased by the French government for the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, was thought to have been stolen by German invaders during World War II. A replica in marble is located in the MMA in New York.

Fuentes: WW59; WW47; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 341; Falk, Exh. Record Series.