Zenos Frudakis

Zenos Frudakis (born July 7, 1951) is an American sculptor whose subjects include portraits of living and historical individuals and poetic/philosophical sculpture. He lives and works near Philadelphia. His works include those at Brookgreen Gardens,[1] the Lotos Club of New York City,[2] the Utsukushi ga-hara Open Air Museum in Japan,[3] the National Academy of Design,[4] and the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa[5]

The Freedom Sculpture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with sculptor Zenos Frudakis
Martin Luther King and Freedom Sculpture
Reaching sculpture with Zenos Frudakis at the Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum in Japan.
Zenos Frudakis
Zenos Frudakis working on his sculpture of Frederick Law Olmsted.
Born1951 (age 68–69)
San Francisco, California, United States
NationalityAmerican
EducationPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; University of Pennsylvania
Known forSculpture
Notable work
Freedom Sculpture, United States Air Force Memorial Honor Guard, Knowledge is Power, Payne Stewart at Pinehurst Golf Course

Biography

The oldest of five children growing up in Greek culture, Zenos admired, respected, and was drawn to Greek sculpture. Greek art influenced his aesthetic vision; additional inspiration came from sculptors Michelangelo, Bernini, Carpeaux and Rodin. The poetry of Eliot, Frost, Roethke and Graves, is important to Zenos, as is philosophy.

Born in 1951 in San Francisco, Frudakis was raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, and Gary, Indiana, where he worked in the steel mills. He began drawing at a very young age, and in 1972 came to Philadelphia to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He studied sculpture with two Prix de Rome winners: his elder brother, sculptor Evangelos Frudakis, and painter James Hanes. At the University of Pennsylvania, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Fine Art.[6]

International sculptures
  • Reaching. Two figures (bronze | 7 ft) Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum, Japan. 3rd Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, July 20, 1990.[7][8]
  • Honor Guard. Memorial (Bronze | 16 ft) Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England. Dedication 2018.[9]
  • Martin Luther King and Freedom. Public sculpture (Bronze | life size) Peace Garden, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Dedication October 19, 2018.[10]
  • Hon. Dame Lois Browne-Evans. Statue (Bronze | life-size) Justice Center, Dame Lois Browne Evans Building (Police/Justice Center) Hamilton, Bermuda. Dedication June 2011.[11]
  • Arnold Palmer. Statue (Bronze | over-life-size) Tralee Golf Club, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. Dedication September 10, 2007.[12]
  • Dr. Constantine Papadakis. Drexel University President. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size) Town Square, Meskla, Greece. Dedication July 24, 2010.[13]
  • Lamby (Abigail), Irish Wolfhound. Statue (Bronze | 12 ft × 11 ft) Old Bladbean Stud Garden, Canterbury, Kent, England.[14]
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., South Africa. Portrait bust (Bronze, granite base | life size) U.S. Embassy, Pretoria, South Africa. Dedication: January 16, 1989.[15]
  • Dr. Constantine 'Taki' Papadakis. Memorial (Bronze | life size) Public Square in Meskla, Greece. Dedication: July 24, 2010.[16]
Payne Stewart sculpture at Pinehurst by Zenos Frudakis.
Zenos Frudakis sculpting Benjamin Franklin.
Arnold Palmer with portrait statue by Zenos Frudakis.

American sculptures

In a career spanning over four decades, Frudakis has produced monumental figures such as the United States Air Force Memorial Honor Guard[17] Installed at the Arlington National Cemetery, and Freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[18]

Monumental sculptures

Memorials
  • U.S. Air Force Memorial Honor Guard. Memorial (Bronze | Monument) Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. Dedication: October 14, 2006.[24]
  • Molly Maguires Memorial. (Bronze | larger-than-life) Molly Maguires Memorial Park, Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. Dedication: June 21, 2002[25]
  • The Workers' Memorial. (Bronze | 8 ft figure, Mayari-r Steel circle, granite base | 2,500 lbs) The Rose Garden, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Sponsored by 20 unions, 15 non-union industries, 3 cities: Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton Pennsylvania. Dedication: April 28, 1991.[26]
  • Anthracite Miners' Memorial. Relief (Bronze | Left and right panels 6 × 4 ft, central panel 8 ft sq) Giard Park, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Dedication: 1996.[27]
  • Nina Simone. Memorial (Bronze, local stone | 8 ft figure) Nina Simone Plaza, Tryon, North Carolina. Dedication: February 21, 2010.[28]
  • Henry L. Bowden. Memorial (Bronze bas-relief | over-life-size) Henry L. Bowden Hall, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Dedication: 1991[29]
  • Mr. and Mrs Hillenbrand. Memorial (Bronze bas-relief | life size) Batesville Memorial Public Library, Batesville, Indiana. Dedication: 1988.
  • Veterans Memorial. Memorial (Bronze | over-life-size) Henry L. Bowden Hall, Emory University, Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Dedication: 1991.

Statues

Sports sculptures

Boxing

Golf

Baseball

Hockey

Coaches

Portrait busts

Contemporary
  • Don McLean. American singer-songwriter. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Used on 1992 album Don McLean Classics. Private collection.[62]
  • Jacques Pépin. French-American chef, author, culinary educator, television personality, artist. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Stone Acres Farm. Dedication: October 13, 2019.[63]
  • Philip Cohen. Portrait bust (Clay, cast in plaster | life size). Private collection.
  • Sir Paul Girolami. British-Italian businessman, CEO of Glaxo, Inc. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; London, England; Tokyo, Japan.
  • John D. MacArthur. American Businessman and philanthropist. Portrait bust (Bronze, granite base | life size). Private collection.
  • Edmund N. Bacon. American urban planner, architect, educator and author. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Private collection.
  • Samuel L. Evans. Civil rights activist, education innovator, community service advocate, chamber music impresario. Founder of the American Foundation for Negro Affairs (AFNA). Portrait bust (Bronze, wood base | life size). AFNA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dedication: May 27, 2015.[64]
  • Nina Simone. American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger and civil rights activist. Portrait bust (Bronze | over-life size). Private collection.[28]
  • Sheila. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Museum of the Academy of Design, Permanent Collection. National Academy of Design, New York, New York.
  • Dr. Stone. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Dr. Norman Adrian Wiggins. President of Campbell University, 1967-2003. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Dr. Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Dedication: April 9, 2010.[65]
  • Robert H. Dedman, Sr.. Businessman, philanthropist. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size | sculpted from life). Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law. Additional castings, private collections.
  • Rosalie Frudakis. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Private collection.
  • Mr. Mederios. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size | sculpted from life). Private collection.
  • Mrs. Mederios. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size | sculpted from life). Private collection.
  • Mr. Cognetta. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size | sculpted from life). Private collection, Cemetery, Stamford, Connecticut.

Government/military
  • General Grant. 18th President of the United States, U.S. Secretary of War, 6th Commanding General of the U.S. Army. Portrait bust (Bronze | over-life-size) The Lotos Club, New York, New York.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower. 34th President of the United States, General of the U.S. Army. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Private collection.
  • Winston Churchill. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Private collection.
  • Alexander Hamilton. First U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Founding Father of U.S., Military Commander. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Private collection.
  • Benjamin Franklin. Founding Father of U.S., U.S. Minister to France and Sweden. Portrait bust (Clay | life size). Private collection.
  • Frank Rizzo. Mayor of Philadelphia.
  • Chief Justice Birch. American lawyer and judge, first African American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Tennessee Supreme Court, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • John Sevier. First Governor of Tennessee. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Sevier Public Library, King Family Library, Sevierville, Tennessee. Additional castings in private collections.[66]
  • General Yarborough. Senior U.S. Army officer, "Father of the Modern Green Berets." Designed U.S. Army's parachutist badge, paratrooper boots and airborne jump uniform. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Airborne & Special Operations Museum, Fayetteville, North Carolina.[67]
  • K. Leroy Irvis. Teacher, activist, politician. First African American to serve as speaker of the house in U.S. state legislature since Reconstruction. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Additional castings in private collections.
  • Marine. U.S. Marine killed in Iraq. Portrait bust (Bronze | life size). Private collection.

Historic
  • Mark Twain. American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Portrait bust. (Bronze | over-life-size) The Lotos Club, New York, New York.[68]
  • Albert Einstein. Theoretical physicist. Portrait bust (Clay | life size). Studio collection.
  • Amelia Earhart. American aviation pioneer and author. Portrait bust (Clay | life size). Studio collection.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson. American essayist, lecturer, philosopher and poet. Portrait bust (Clay | life size). Studio collection.
  • Edgar Allan Poe. American writer, poet, editor and literary critic. Portrait bust (Clay | life size). Studio collection.
  • Dante. Italian poet. Portrait bust (Clay | life size). Studio collection.

Selected awards

Frudakis is a member of the prestigious National Sculpture Society.[69]

In 1990, Frudakis was invited to participate in Japan's Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, where he won the Hakone Award at Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum.[70] The museum purchased a cast of Frudakis's sculpture Reaching.[71]

In 1991 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an associate member, and became a full academician in 1993.

  • Knowledge is Power.
  • Gateway to Growth (in progress)
  • Chef Pepin, portrait sculpture and Frudakis
  • General Yarborough, Airborne & Special Ops Museum, Fayetteville, NC
  • Jack Nicklaus, Dwight Gahm Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, KY
  • Portrait sculpture of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Zenos Frudakis.
  • Mark Twain, The Lotos Club, New York, NY
  • Pennsylvania Anthracite Miners Memorial in Shenandoah, PA by Zenos Frudakis. Photo credit: Shuvaev
  • Nina Simone Sculpture by Zenos Frudakis, Nina Simone Plaza in Tryon, NC. Photo credit: Meg Rogers
  • Mike Schmidt, Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, PA[72][73]

References
  1. Robin R. Salmon, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture (Brookgreen Gardens, 1993), v. 2, pp. 188-91.
  2. The Lotos Experience, The Tradition Continues (Lotos Club, 1995), pp. 34-35.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Gene Freedman, "The Unveiling of a Memorial," USIA World, April 1989, pp. 10-11. See also "Hope and Glory," Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday March 12, 1989, cover and pp. 4H-5H; "Martin Luther King Jr Is Remembered," Herald International Tribune, January 17, 1989, front page; and "Bust of Dr. King," Washington Post, January 17, 1989, p. 1.
  6. Sarah Blackman, "Sculpting a Life" (feature article on Frudakis), The Pennsylvania Gazette, Class of '82, November/December 2002, p. 3.
  7. Henry, Jean "Contemporary Figurative Sculpture," The National Sculpture Society Celebrates the Figure (National Sculpture Society, 1987), pp. 52-53.
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  9. Imperial War Museum. "Memorial Honor Guard" IWM, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.
  10. Mavros, Larissa, University of New South Wales, Sydney Newsroom, "Bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Joins Gallery of Human Rights Icons at UNSW Sydney" October 19, 2018. Sydney, Australia.
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  13. DrexelNow, "Town Square in Greece to be Named for Late Drexel President Papadakis" Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 20, 2010.
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  17. Col. Walter Boyne, Soaring to Glory, The United States Air Force Memorial (for the Air Force Memorial Foundation by the Donning Company, 2007), Chapter 7, "A Perfect Partnership," pp. 80-93. See also "Guard Honored," The Academy Spirit, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado, v. 47, no. 40 (October 5, 2007), p. 1.
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  19. Sculpture Review, Changing the American Landscape, Fall 2001, Vol.L, No.3, p.32, National Sculpture Society, New York, New York.
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  58. "John "Fritz" Brennan, (sculpture)". Smithsonian. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
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  70. 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.
  71. Donald Reynolds, Masters of American Sculpture (Abbeville Press, 1993), p. 250.
  72. Citizens Bank Park. "Citizens Bank Park". Retrieved 2012-03-30.
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Further reading
  • Appelbaum, David, and Mel Thompson, editors. World Philosophy. Vega, 2002, pp. 250–51.
  • Boyne, Walter J., Rosalie Frudakis, Katherine Jaeger, et al. The United States Air Force Memorial Honor Guard, A Sculpture by Zenos Frudakis. Techni Press, 2007.
  • Dunhoff, Richard, and Philip H. Wagner. Philadelphia, A Photographic Portrait. Twin Lights Publishers, 2004, p. 14.
  • Goode, James M. Washington Sculpture. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
  • Gordon, Robert, and Tom Burgoyne. Movin' On Up. MidAtlantic Press, 2004, pp. 264–64.
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