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Jo Davidson

Portrait sculptor, whose raison d'être was to sculpt the significant personalities of the 20th century. His work included naturalistic bronzes of Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Fiorello La Guardia, Gertrude Stein, Anatole France, Mahatma Gandhi, Rudyard Kipling and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995

Alternate Names
Davidson, Jo
Joseph Davidson
Birth
1883
Birth Location
New York, New York, United States
Death
1952
Death Location
Tours, France
Gender
male
Nationalities
american
American?
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Selected Images of Jo Davidson

Gertrude Stein posing for Jo Davidson (Man Ray, c. 1922)
Carl Sandburg and Jo Davidson (Alexander Alland, Sr., 1938)
(no title) (Durand-Ruel Galleries (New York, N.Y.), 25 May 1925)
Jo Davidson and Helen Keller (Arthur Leipzig, 1944)
(no title) (Durand-Ruel Galleries (New York, N.Y.), 25 May 1925)
Helen Keller (P. Pougnet, 1950)

Objects at Smithsonian American Art Museum (3)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Fourth Inaugural Medal (Jo Davidson, 1945)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Third Inaugural Medal (Jo Davidson, 1941)
Ida Rubenstein (Jo Davidson, before 1922)

Objects at National Portrait Gallery (46)

Florence Lucius Davidson (Jo Davidson, 1941)
Henry Agard Wallace (Jo Davidson, 1942)
Fritz Kreisler (Jo Davidson, 1919?)
W. Averell Harriman (Jo Davidson, 1935)
Gertrude Stein (Jo Davidson, 1922-1923)
Andrew William Mellon (Jo Davidson, 1927-1935)
Ernie Pyle (Jo Davidson, 1944)
John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Jo Davidson, 1924)
Joseph Gurney Cannon (Jo Davidson, Probably cast in 1967 after an original of 1916-1917)
Bernard Mannes Baruch (Jo Davidson, 1919)
John Joseph Pershing (Jo Davidson, 1919)
Gertrude Stein (Jo Davidson, 1922-1923)
Carl Sandburg (Jo Davidson, 1978 cast after c. 1939 original)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Jo Davidson, 1951)
Aldous Huxley (Jo Davidson, 1930)
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (Jo Davidson, 1968 cast after 1916 original)
Eamon De Valera (Jo Davidson, 1921)
Charlie Chaplin (Jo Davidson, 1925)
Adolph Zukor (Jo Davidson, 1978 cast after 1925 original)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Jo Davidson, 1948)
Jo Davidson Self-Portrait (Jo Davidson, 1981 cast after 1946 original)
Mary Harris Jones (Jo Davidson, 1922)
Clarence Seward Darrow (Jo Davidson, cast after 1929 original)
Henry Robinson Luce (Jo Davidson, 1939)
Sinclair Lewis (Jo Davidson, 1937)
Sidney Hillman (Jo Davidson, 1939)
Charles Fitzgerald (Jo Davidson, 1950 cast after 1909 original)
Ernie Pyle (Jo Davidson, 1944)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Jo Davidson, 1934)
Adolph Zukor (Jo Davidson, 1925)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Jo Davidson, 1948)
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (Jo Davidson, 1978 cast after 1939 original)
Woodrow Wilson (Jo Davidson, 1919)
Ignace Jan Paderewski (Jo Davidson, 1919)
Helen Adams Keller (Jo Davidson, 1942)
George William Norris (Jo Davidson, 1942)
Will Rogers (Jo Davidson, cast after 1938 orginal)
Bernard Mannes Baruch (Jo Davidson, 1978 cast after 1919 original)
Golda Meir (Jo Davidson, 1978 cast after 1951 original)
Albert Einstein (Jo Davidson, c. 1934)
Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (Jo Davidson, 1922)
Robinson Jeffers (Jo Davidson, 1930)
Aldous Huxley (Jo Davidson, 1930)
Clare Boothe Luce (Jo Davidson, 1939)
Henry Morgenthau (Jo Davidson, 1939)
Lincoln Steffens (Jo Davidson, 1920)