Oronzio Maldarelli

In 1912 he entered the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied under Jo Davidson, Elie Nadelman, John Gregory and others.

Maldarelli's classical training allowed him to obtain commissions for both garden decorations and architectural sculpture.

[1] While working at Columbia University in early 1950, Maldarelli met and taught a young Canadian police officer named John Reginald Abbott, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Abbott had received authorization and funding to study sculpture in New York City in order to develop a new system of criminal identification for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that relied on sculpted composites of suspected criminals.

Retrieved 2014-01-25. and was awarded the Widener Gold Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.