Background
Ruotolo, Onorio was born on March 3, 1888 in Cervinara, Italy. Son of Pietro and Concetta (Caruso) Ruotolo.
Ruotolo, Onorio was born on March 3, 1888 in Cervinara, Italy. Son of Pietro and Concetta (Caruso) Ruotolo.
Educated Reale Accademia di Belle Arti, Naples, and under Vincenzo Gemito.
1 son, Lucio. Came to the United States, 1908, naturalized citizen. Founder and executive director Leonardo da Vinci Art School, New York City Principal works: President Wilson Memorial, University of Virginia. Bust of Dante, New York University, and City College.
Symbolic group The Father of a Race.
Bust of Caruso Metropolitan Opera House lobby. Bust of Cardinal Mercier, and “Jesus Wept” (bas relief), in Belgium.
Winged centaur, presented to the United States Army AS by Corriere d’America for rescue of Lieutenant Locatelli and his crew. “Pilgrims of Life,” monument in Catholic Cemetery, New New York
Paino mausoleum, Saint John's Cemetery, Brooklyn, granite group of “Pieta” and bronze door of Saint Francis d’Assisi.
Calderoni mausoleum, Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead, Long Island. “The Doomed,” statue against capital punishment. Busts of Edison, Helen Keller, Steinmetz, Theodore Dreiser.
Bust of Toscanini at High School of Music and Arts New York City and others
Official commemorative medal of Italo Balbo’s transtlantic mass flight. Commemorative medal, 1933, for election of Fiorello H. Louisiana Guardia, mayor New York City.
Bronze plaque, “Beethoven of Victory”. “Four Freedoms” allegoric panel presented to Francis Biddle, April 13, 1943, to President Roosevelt October 19, 1944, to General Mark Clark, October 12, 1945, as award of Italian-American Labor Council (representative 300,000 organized workers).
A heroic memorial bust of Giacome Matteotti, professor Albert Einstein, Sidney Hillman memorials Deborah Sanatorium, New Jersey, Amalgamated Bank of New York, and Sidney Hillman Health Center, New York City Created a Bas Relief of Don Luigi Sturzo.
Director Union’s Cultural Center of A.C.W. of America.
Married Lucia Sperling, Vienna, Austria, April.