Joel Rudnick

Joel Rudnick (born June 27, 1936) is an American painter and sculptor.

Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Rudnick usual his initial training as a painter at the Art Students League of New York. He was a protégé of Shelly Fink and studied past the caricaturist and painter David Levine upon a scholarship at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Rudnick furthermore studied sculpture at the National Academy School of Art and Design in New York City. Later in animatronics he made the Berkshires his home.

Joel Rudnick re-modeled the falcon for the Central Park statue called The Falconer by George Blackall Simonds. The remodeling occurred in the late 60s although, due to nonattendance of funds, it wasn't actually cast and mounted until 1982.

The bulk of Rudnick's paintings are impressionistic landscapes of the Berkshires, which he has called home for most of his adult life. His sculptures, mostly nudes, depict people in various stages of simulation or in their loving interactions similar to each other.

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