Gleb W. Derujinsky

Gleb W. Derujinsky (Глеб Владимирович Дерюжинский; August 13, 1888[1] – March 9, 1975) was a Russian-American sculptor.

Born in Otradnoye, in the Smolensky Uyezd of the Smolensk Governorate of the Russian Empire, he was related to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov on his father's side and the painter Mikhail Vrubel on his mother's.

He completed his law degree at the University of Petrograd to meet his father's expectations, but devoted his entire life to sculpture.

[3][4][5] His original sculptures in plaster done from life include Theodore Roosevelt, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev, Lillian Gish, Lady Diana Cooper, Rabindranath Tagore, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, José Raúl Capablanca and many others.

[2][3][4][5] Derujinsky's works are in the permanent collections of major museums in the United States and Europe as well as many churches and public buildings.

Derujinsky with his model Virginia Brown Faire in 1920
Derujinsky's "The Letter" Logan Post Office, Logan, West Virginia. Photographed 29 September 2018 by Ernest Everett Blevins, MFA