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Zenos Frudakis | |
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 Zenos Frudakis working on his sculpture of Frederick Law Olmsted. | |
| Born | July 7, 1951 |
| Education | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; University of Pennsylvania |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Notable work | Freedom, United States Air Force Memorial Honor Guard, Knowledge is Power, Payne Stewart at Pinehurst Golf Course |
Zenos Frudakis (born July 7, 1951), known as Frudakis[dubious – discuss], is an American sculptor whose diverse body of work includes monuments, memorials, portrait busts and statues of living and historic individuals, military subjects, sports figures and animal sculpture. Over the past four decades he has sculpted monumental works and over 100 figurative sculptures included within public and private collections throughout the United States and internationally. Frudakis currently lives and works near Philadelphia, and is best known for his sculpture Freedom, which shows a series of figures breaking free from a wall and is installed in downtown Philadelphia. Other notable works are at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia,[1] Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina,[2] the National Academy of Design,[3] and the Lotos Club[4] of New York City, the Imperial War Museum in England,[5] the Utsukushi ga-hara Open Air Museum in Japan,[6] and the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa.[7]
- ^ Air Force District of Washington. "Air Force Memorial". Retrieved 2020-03-31.
- ^ Robin R. Salmon, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture (Brookgreen Gardens, 1993), v. 2, pp. 188-91.
- ^ When an artist is voted into membership in the National Academy the Academy accepts a work of art from that artist; Frudakis's work was Sheila, a life-size bronze bust.
- ^ The Lotos Experience, The Tradition Continues (Lotos Club, 1995), pp. 34-35.
- ^ Imperial War Museum. "Memorial Honor Guard" IWM, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.
- ^ Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibit, The Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum, Hakone Open Air Museum, Embassies of Greece, Spain, United Kingdom and British Consul, United States, West Germany, 1990, pp. 27-28.
- ^ Gene Freedman, "The Unveiling of a Memorial," USIA World, April 1989, pp. 10-11.