Overview
Jo Davidson stands as one of America’s most prodigious academic portrait sculptors of presidents around the world. He is renowned for having done the likeness of famous people such as Gertrude Stein and Charlie Chaplin, industrialists such as Andrew Mellon and important figures such as Walt Whitman. He is also noted for his relationship to Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney who was a close friend and patron of his work.
Memberships
National Academy of Design
National Sculpture Society
Society of Independent Artists
WPA/Federal Arts Project
Exhibitions
Armory Show, New York 1913
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Academy of Design
National Sculpture Society
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Salon dâAutomne
Society of Independent Artists
Whitney Museum of American Art
Museums and Public Collections
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Institute
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Glicrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
Musees Nationaux Paris
Museum of Fine Arts â St. Petersburg
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
The Columbus Museum, Georgia
The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
US Capitol Collection, Washington, D.C.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Woolaroc Museum, Bartlesville, Oklahoma