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Sculpture: Stone, Wood, Clay
Rhoda Sherbell is a portrait sculptor of distinction. She is known for her public
monuments and garden sculptures. Some of her best known works are Yogi Berra, Casey
Stengel, Aaron Copland, Raphael and Moses Soyer, Marguerite and William Zorach and
Eleanor Roosevelt. Her sculptures are in museum collections as well as the Baseball Hall
of Fame, Cooperstown, New York. The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.,
chose Ms. Sherbell to represent the museum on their one hundred and fiftieth birthday
celebration. A cake was made with an image of Casey Stengel atop it, which was
exhibited at the Sackler Museum. Ms. Sherbell was invited to the White House by
President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan on the occasion of the exhibition Champions of
American Sport. The United States Information Agency has shown her artwork in the
magazine America. Her work is on permanent view at the governoräs residence at the
state capital in Hartford, CT. Ms. Sherbell was invited to speak with Mayor Koch at the
opening of Casey Stengel Plaza at Shea Stadium. Currently, Ms. Sherbell is in a video
with President George W. Bush honoring the founder of the National Art Museum of
Sport. Ms. Sherbell has been invited by the American Ambassador to exhibit her
sculpture in the Czech Republic as part of the Art in Embassies Program.
Ms. Sherbell has had nineteen solo museum and gallery exhibitions. She has
received over fifty awards, including those from the American Academy and Institute of
Arts and Letters, the Ford Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the National Sculpture Society (Gold Medal).
Ms. Sherbelläs sculpture is in the permanent collections of twenty-five museums
throughout the country, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Queens Museum of Art, the Smithsonian
American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Montclair Museum of Art, the
Jewish Museum, the State Museum of Connecticut, William Benton Museum of Art and
the Hecksher Museum of Art. She is a member of the National Academy.
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