Background
Evans, Rudulph was born on February 1, 1878 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Frank L. and Elizabeth Jeanette (Grimes) Evans.
Evans, Rudulph was born on February 1, 1878 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Frank L. and Elizabeth Jeanette (Grimes) Evans.
Educated Corcoran Art School (Washington, District of Columbia), Art Students’ League (New York City), Julian Academy and École des Beaux Arts (Paris, France).
Exhibited in leading cities, including New York City, Chicago, Washington, Paris, France, et cetera Awarded bronze medal, Paris Salon, 1914, and French Cross of Legion of Honor, 1934. Statue, “The Golden Hour,” purchased by French Government for Luxembourg Museum, and replica of same, in marble, in Metropolitan Museum, New York City.
Watrous gold medal, National Academy Exhibition, New York City, 1920.
Commissioned for monuments or portrait busts, by Frank A. Vanderlip, John Doctorate. Rockefeller, Junior, Thomas F. Ryan, et cetera Sculptor of McKinney memorial.
J. Sterling Morton monument. Woolley Memorial at Detroit.
Michigan, Kiernan Memorial at Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Marble portrait of General Bolivar, General Miranda (Pan American Union, Washington, District of Columbia). Bronze portraits of John Greenleaf Whittier, Owen Doctorate. Young, Bernard M. Baruch. Bronze portrait of Longfellow and of George Bancroft, historian, for Hall of Fame, Grover Cleveland (Princeton University), bronze statue of General Robert East. Lee in capitol at Richmond, Virginia, Jacob Loose at Kansas City, Missoury, William Jennings Bryan and Sterling Morton, Washington, District of Columbia.
Heroic statue of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, dedicated on 200th anniversary of birth, April 13, 1943.
Bronze bust of Bernard Baruch, bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan for State Capitol at Lincoln, Nebraska. Also executed sculptured portraits, busts, bronze statues of numerous notable Americans for the collections of various public institutions in the United States Cavaliere Order of Crown of Italy.
Honorary fellow National Sculpture Society. Member Metropolitan Museum Art, National Institute Arts and Letters, North.A. Studio: 1701 16th Saint North.W., Washington 9.
Member Metropolitan Museum Art, National Institute Arts and Letters, North.A. Studio: 1701 16th Saint North.W., Washington 9.
Married Jane Coleman Wood, November 9, 1905.