Rhoda Sherbell
Rhoda Sherbell is an American sculptor whose work has been commissioned by the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY as well as private commissions from Yogi Berra, Casey Stengel, and Aaron Copland,[1] among a host of other celebrities. Her sculptures are in the permanent collections of twenty-five museums throughout the country, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[2] the National Portrait Gallery, the Jewish Museum, the State Museum of Connecticut, William Benton Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. She is a member of the National Academy and of Portraits, Inc., and is on the board of the Portrait Society of America. In 1960, Sherbell was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters alongside Philip Roth and Norman Mailer.[3] In 2013, the National Association of Women Artists awarded Sherbell as Artist of the Year, an award previously bestowed upon such luminaries of the art world as Mary Cassatt and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.[4]
References
- ↑ National Portrait Gallery: http://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.94.30
- ↑ Biography of Rhoda Sherbell at the Smithsonian: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=4418
- ↑ American Academy of Arts and Letters: http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Academy
- ↑ Art Times Journal: http://www.arttimesjournal.com/art/Art_Essays/May_13_Raymond_J_Steiner/Rhoda_Sherbell_honoree.html