Rudulph Evans

[1] He grew up in Front Royal, Virginia, and studied in France at the École des Beaux-Arts; his fellow students included Auguste Rodin and Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

[2] After returning to the United States in 1900, Evans established and maintained a studio in New York City.

The 1926 Montparnasse census reported his living at 17 rue Campagne Premiere in the 14th district together with his wife Jeanne Evans born in 1875 in Illinois.

In 1918, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an associate member and became a full academician in 1929.

[3] Evans' other noted works include the statues of Julius Sterling Morton (1937) and of William Jennings Bryan (1937), both in the National Statuary Hall Collection of the United States Capitol.

Boy and Panther by Rudulph Evans, based on Rudyard Kipling 's Mowgli , located in Brookgreen Gardens , South Carolina
Evans' 1947 statue of Thomas Jefferson , exhibited in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Bust of Julius Sterling Morton by Evans, created in 1896 for the Nebraska Hall of Fame .