Biografie von Onorio RUOTOLO (1888-1966)

Birth place: Cervinara, Italy

Death place: NYC

Addresses: NYC, 1908

Profession: Sculptor

Studied: Royal Acad. FA, Naples, 1900-06; with V. Gemito

Work: Dante, 1921, NYU; Enrico Caruso, 1921, Metropolitan Opera House; Woodrow Wilson mem., 1929, Univ. Virginia

Comments: Was an artist and a social activist. Co-editor, Il Fuoco and founder, Minosse, both literary, art and political journals. As a sculptor, he is best known for his naturalistic busts done during the 1910s and 1920s, although he also modeled realistic figures of ordinary people.

Sources: Fort, The Figure in American Sculpture, 221 (w/repro.)