Rudulph Evans
Born(1878-02-01)February 1, 1878
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedJanuary 16, 1960(1960-01-16) (aged 81)
NationalityAmerican
Known forSculpture
Notable workStatue of Thomas Jefferson inside the Jefferson Memorial

Rudulph Evans (February 1, 1878 – January 16, 1960) was a sculptor.

Early life

Boy and Panther by Rudulph Evans, based on Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli, located in Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina
Evans' 1947 statue of Thomas Jefferson, exhibited in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Bust of Julius Sterling Morton by Evans, created in 1896 for the Nebraska Hall of Fame.

Rudolph Evans was born February 1, 1878 in Washington, D.C. to Frank L. Evans, the descendant of a Quaker family, and Elizabeth J. Grimes, the daughter of Gassaway Sellman Grimes, a physician.[1] He grew up in Front Royal, Virginia, and studied in France at the École des Beaux-Arts; his fellow students included Auguste Rodin and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. He also studied at Corcoran School of Art under Edith Ogden Heidel.[2]

Career

After returning to the United States in 1900, Evans established and maintained a studio in New York City] In 1918, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an associate member and became a full academician in 1929. He moved back to Washington, D.C. in 1949. Evans designed the statue of Thomas Jefferson inside the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. At the time the memorial was inaugurated, in 1943, due to material shortages during World War II, the statue was of plaster patinated to resemble bronze; the finished bronze was cast by Roman Bronze Works of New York City in 1947.[3]

Evans' other noted works include the statues of Julius Sterling Morton (1937) and of William Jennings Bryan (1937), both in the National Statuary Hall Collection of the United States Capitol. Evans also sculpted the statue of Robert E. Lee (1932) in the Virginia State Capitol.[4] His statue of Lee was removed in July of 2020 from the Old House Chamber in the Virginia Capitol.

Notes

  1. ↑ Downs, Winfield Scott (27 December 2017). "Encyclopedia of American Biography: New Series". American Historical Society. Retrieved 27 December 2017 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Virgil E. McMahan (1995). The Artists of Washington, D.C., 1796–1996. Artists of Washington. ISBN 978-0-9649101-0-2.
  3. ↑ Documentation of the Jefferson Memorial. Office of the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER), of the National Park Service. September 1994. Library of Congress. Accessed 26 May 2009.
  4. ↑ Evans's statue of Robert E. Lee for the Virginia State Capitol. Virginia State Art Collection. Library of Virginia. Accessed 23 June 2011.

References

Yonkers, Tescia Ann. "Behold His Bronze Likeness: Rudulph Evans's Statue of Robert E. Lee." Virginia Cavalcade 34 (Autumn 1984): 90–95.

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