Joel Rudnick

Painter

Birthday June 27, 1936

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace New York

Age 87 years old

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About

Known for both his impressionist-style American landscape paintings and his nude sculptures, he received numerous artistic honors, including the Allied Artists of America's Lindsay Morris Award and the National Sculpture Society's Mrs. Louis Bennett Prize.

Before Fame

He studied at the Art Students League of New York, the Art School of the Brooklyn Museum, and the National Academy School of Art and Design (also in New York City).

Trivia

During the late 1960s, he re-sculpted The Falconer, a famous Central Park statue originally created by George Blackall Simonds.

Family Life

A native of Brooklyn, New York, he later settled in the Berkshires region of his home state.

Associated With

He and fellow sculptor Edmonia Lewis were both born in New York.