Jo Davidson

Background

Davidson, Jo was born on March 30, 1883 in New York City. Son of Jacob S. and Haya (Getzoff) Davidson.

Education

Pupil of George de Forest Brush, Hermon A. McNeil. Art Students’ League and of Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris.

Career

Principal works: President Woodrow Wilson and bust of Anatole France, in Luxembourg Museum, Paris. “The Dance,” Neighborhood Playhouse, New New York Doctor Abram Jacobi, Mount Sinai Hospital, New New York

John Purroy Mitchel Memorial, Columbia University, New New York

Colossal bust of John Doctorate. Rockefeller, Standard Oil Building, New New York Colossal bust of Adolf Zukor, Paramount Building, New New York

Heroic statue in marble of late Senator Robert M. Louisiana Follette, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington, District of Columbia. Walt Whitman Bear-Mountain-Harriman State Bank, New York State.

Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis, Sir James Barrie, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, et cetera

Marshal Foch, General Pershing and Marshal Joffre, Musee des Invalides, Paris. Also portrait-busts of Clemenceau, Myron TT. Herrick, Nicholas Murray Butler, Andrew West. Mellon, Rabindranath Tagore, Zangwill, Lord Northcliffe, Chickerin, Chaliapln. Statue of Will Rogers, Claremore, Oklahoma, and The Capitol, Washington, District of Columbia.

Busts of President Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt, Vice-President Henry A. Wallace, Senator George West. Norris, Helen Keller, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Van Wyck Brooks, Chas.

Dana Gibson, Hermon A. McNeil, Presidents of South American republics. Bas-relief of Andrew West. Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia.

Ernie Pyle, University of Indiana.

Achievements

• Jo Davidson has been listed as a noteworthy sculptor by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

More photos

• book

  • Jo Davidson : Portrait Sculpture
  • Between Sittings. An informal autobiography of Jo Davidson.

Membership

Member National Sculpture Society, Institute of Arts and Letters, Academy of Design. Clubs: Century, Coffee House, Dutch Treat. Overseas Press, Lotos.

Connections

Married Yvonne de Kerstrat, 1909 (died 1934). Married second, Florence Gertrude Lucius, 1941. Children: (sons), Yvon Jacques and Jean Michel.

Father:

Jacob South. Davidson

Mother:

Haya (Getzoff) Davidson

Spouse:

Yvonne de Kerstrat

Spouse:

Florence Gertrude Lucius

child:

Yvon Jacques and Jean Michel Davidson

child:

(sons) Davidson