Joel Rudnick (born June 27, 1936) is an American painter and sculptor.

Early life and education

Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Rudnick received his initial training as a painter at the

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. He was a protégé of Shelly Fink and studied with the caricaturist and painter David Levine on a scholarship at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Rudnick also studied sculpture at the National Academy School of Art and Design in New York City.

Career

Joel Rudnic
re-modeled the falcon
for the Central Park statue called '' The Falconer'' by George Blackall Simonds. The remodeling occurred in the late 1960s although, due to lack of funds, it was not actually cast and mounted until 1982. The bulk of Rudnick's paintings are impressionistic landscapes of the Berkshires, which he has called home for most of his adult life. His sculptures, mostly nudes, depict people in various stages of life or in their loving interactions with each other.

Awards

* Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Foundation grant, Montreal, Canada * Joel Meisner Foundry Prize, Salmagundi Club, New York City * Lindsay Morris Memorial Award,

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, New York City * Mrs. Louis Bennett Prize, National Sculpture Society * The Louis La Baume Memorial Prize * Harriet Whitney Frismuth Prize, National Academy School of Fine Arts * Honorable mentions from the National Sculpture Society and

References

External links

Joel Rudnick Official Web Site {{DEFAULTSORT:Rudnick, Joel Living people 1936 births 20th-century American male artists 20th-century American painters 20th-century American sculptors 21st-century American male artists 21st-century American painters 21st-century American sculptors American Impressionist painters American landscape painters American male painters American male sculptors Art Students League of New York alumni Artists from Brooklyn Brooklyn Museum Art School alumni Nude sculptures Painters from Brooklyn Sculptors from New York City