Dudley Talcott

Dudley Vaill Talcott (June 9, 1899 – February 19, 1986) was an American sculptor, author and illustrator.

He studied for one year at Yale University's Art School before moving to Paris in 1920 when he took instruction at the Academié de la Grande Chaumière.

In 1932 sculpture was still an Olympic competition and Talcott had two pieces entered in the Los Angeles games that year.

[2] For the New York World's Fair of 1939 Talcott produced "panels, figures, etc.".

[4] In 1973 he produced a work Kopernik to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus that is located on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Kopernik in Philadelphia