Focus on Bust of Henry F. Schricker and explain the Artist.
David Kresz Rubins was born in Minneapolis in 1902. As a young man, he apprenticed to J. E. Fraser before moving on to study at Dartmouth College and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He then traveled to Europe to study in Paris, where he was awarded the Paris Prize in Sculpture. He was a fellow of the American Academy in Rome from 1928 to 1931. He joined the faculty of the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis in 1935. While there, he taught drawing, anatomy, ceramics, and sculpture. He also authored a textbook, The Human Figure: An Anatomy for Artists, in 1953.Rubins’ work includes the statue of Young Abraham Lincoln outside the Indiana State House, a number of plaques at Riley Hospital, and the sculpture of Henry F. Schricker.
Rubins retired from teaching in 1970, three years after Herron became a part of Indiana University. He was named Professor Emeritus in 1981. He died in 1985 at the age of 82.
American Indianapolis Riley Hospital Indiana Abraham Lincoln Henry F. Schricker Dartmouth College Indiana State House Beaux-Arts Institute of Design American Academy in Rome Young Abraham Lincoln J. E. Fraser