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Featured Work
St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio
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Ruth SherwoodSculpture (EXTERIOR)
Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens
About the Artwork
Ruth Sherwood’s tribute to St. Francis, after convincing the murderous wolf of Gubbio to not harm the townspeople.
About the Artist
Ruth Sherwood
Ruth Sherwood (1889-1952) was the daughter of concert pianist William Hall Sherwood and the first wife of sculptor Albin Polasek. Sherwood was brought up in the Midwest, receiving her S.B. from the University of Chicago. Sherwood subsequently completed her studies at The Art Institute, where she taught sculpture for over 20 years. She retired to Winter Park, Florida, in approximately 1946. Sherwood successfully exhibited her works in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia until her death just eighteen months after marrying Polasek.
Did you know?
The tiniest art museum in Orange County with the longest name is the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Art in historic Eatonville
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For those who have eyes to see, there are hundreds of works of art around them.
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be regularly viewed in Orange County by any member of the public without an
admission fee. They are outside in public view, or located in an interior area
that is normally open to the public.
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