Vincenzo Miserendino

Vincenzo "Vincent" Miserendino (January 29, 1875 – December 26, 1943) was an Italian-American artist and sculptor born in Sicily and active in New York City during the first half of the 20th century.

[1] He immigrated to the United States in 1894 at the age of nineteen, and settled on the lower east side of Manhattan, working in many odd jobs while trying to establish himself as an artist.

In 1922 Miserendino created a larger-than-life terracotta sculpture of Roosevelt sitting on a rock in safari hunting attire, with a giant lion head beside his feet.

It was commissioned by the United Italian Societies of Reading and Berks County for the 500th anniversary of the Columbus voyage to the new world, and unveiled and dedicated on October 12, 1925.

[10] In 1930, he sculpted a public monument of Thomas Mott Osborne, a prison reform leader, from bronze and granite for the department of parks and recreation in Auburn, NY.

Miseredino was also able to sell watercolors, paintings and murals, such as "The Spring Dance" to the Palais Royal on Broadway, an early motion picture house in New York City, for their lobby, as chronicled on April 17, 1917, in American Art News.

He spent the majority of his married life in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx, and commuted to his studio on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Vincenzo Miserendino working on one of his many Teddy Roosevelt portraits in his studio on the Bowery
Bust of Adolph Ochs in Lobby of the New York Times
The Columbus statue in Hartford, Connecticut, near Bushnell Park was removed in June 2020