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Madison Square Park & Vicinity - New York City, New York
Appellate Court Building - 'Wisdom' Sculpture by Frederick Wellington Ruckstull

On the ground, to the west of the entrance steps and flanking the entrance, is the statue of 'Wisdom' by Frederick Wellington Ruckstull. Etched in stone on it is the inscription 'Every Law not based on wisdom is a menace to the state.'

Frederick Wellington Ruckstull
(b. 1853 Breitenbach (Alsace) France – d. NY 1942)
was born with a family name spelled 'Ruckstuhl;' Frederick and his family moved to St. Louis, MO, in 1855. With little schooling, he worked at a number of jobs until his early 20s, when he saw an art exhibition in St. Louis that made him want to be a sculptor. He began his studies in St. Louis, and through hard work, both in and out of school, he saved enough to live and study in Paris for three years. He studied at the Academie Julian with Gustave Boulanger, Camille Lef?vre, Jean Dampt and Antoine Mercié. Ruckstull liked the realism of the Beaux-Arts style and was a defender of the academic style until he died.

When he returned from Paris in 1892, he opened his own sculpture studio in New York City. His sculpture 'Evening' won the grand prize at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (his 1891 version of that sculpture is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York). The prize energized his career; he was commissioned to create an equestrian statue of the Civil War General John F. Hartranft. Ruckstull and others founded the National Sculpture Society. With his contemporaries Daniel Chester French and Augustus Saint-Gaudens, he promoted the teaching of sculpture through studio work, as the French did.

He exhibited at the Armory Show of 1914. Ruckstull made the sculptures of 'Wisdom' and 'Force' at New York City's Appellate Court building at Madison Square Park. His sculpture of 'Phoenicia' decorates the facade at the Customs House in lower Manhattan. He also sculpted the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in Major John Mark Park in Jamaica, Queens. His statue of 'Minerva at the Altar of Liberty' is in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. He also made a statue of Brigadier General John F. Hartranft, Capitol Hill, Harrisburgh, PA. Several of his works are in the sculpture collection at the United States Capitol Building and in the Library of Congress. He was a member of the National Arts Club.

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