Jo Davidson - Commissions

Commissions

  • James Barrie
  • Nicholas Murray Butler
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Madame Chiang Kai-shek
  • Joseph Conrad
  • Émile Coué (who was also a sculptor in his spare time)
  • Clarence Darrow
  • Charles G. Dawes - bust, part of the United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Albert Einstein
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Marshall Ferdinand Foch
  • Anatole France
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • André Gide
  • Emma Goldman
  • W. Averell Harriman
  • Frank Harris
  • Dolores Ibárruri (La Passionaria)
  • Robinson Jeffers
  • James Joyce
  • Helen Keller
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Robert M. La Follette, Wisconsin contribution to National Statuary Hall, United States Capitol
  • D. H. Lawrence
  • Henry Luce
  • John Marin
  • E. W. Marland
  • Lydie Marland and her brother George Roberts Marland
  • Lowell Mellett
  • Andrew Mellon
  • General John J. Pershing
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Will Rogers (posthumous) - bronze, Oklahoma contribution to National Statuary Hall, United States Capitol, erected in 1939
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt installed at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
  • Ida Rubinstein
  • Carl Sandburg
  • E. W. Scripps
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Lincoln Steffens
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Marshall Tito
  • H. G. Wells
  • Henry A. Wallace - bust, part of the United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection
  • Walt Whitman (posthumous) - full-body bronze statue in Bear Mountain State Park, New York.
  • Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
  • Evan Williams (Opera tenor)
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Israel Zangwill

Some of Davidson's work is in the National Gallery of Art.

He also designed a statue of Henry D. Thoreau, the author of the book Walden. The statue is located at Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord, Massachusetts.

In 2006, The Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery opened a permanent exhibition, "Jo Davidson: Biographer in Bronze", showcasing fourteen Davidson works in terracotta and bronze, including portraits of Gertrude Stein and Lincoln Steffens.

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