Jo Davidson (sculptor)
Jo Davidson (1883 – 1952) was an American sculptor specializing in realistic human busts and statues, starting with clay and then cast in terra-cotta or bronze, or carved from marble. He created life sized scultures of many of the iconic personalities of his time, including Walt Whitman and Gertrude Stein.
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Jo Davidson's life-size terra cotta sculpture of Gertrude Stein created in Paris in 1923, now in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. A bronze cast of this sculture was made in 1991 for Bryant Park, Manhattan, New York City. "There was an eternal quality about her," sculptor Jo Davidson (a Stein friend from her Paris years) wrote. "She somehow symbolized wisdom." He depicted her here as "a sort of modern Buddha."
Walt Whitman Monument, Jo Davidson (sculptor), at 3100 S Broad St, Philadelphia PA at the I-76 entrance to the Walt Whitman bridge over the Delaware river.
