Portrait sculptor, Rhoda Sherbell, is known for her public monuments and garden sculptures. Some of her best-known works are Yogi Berra, Aaron Copland, Raphael and Moses Soyer, Marguerite and William Zorach, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Casey Stengel. She was invited to speak with Mayor Koch during the opening of Casey Stengel Plaza at Shea Stadium. She has also been invited by the American ambassador to exhibit her sculpture in the Czech Republic, as part of the Art in Embassies Program.
Sherbell has received numerous awards, including those from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Ford Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the National Sculpture Society. The National Association of Women Artists awarded Sherbell as Artist of the Year for 2013. She is a member of the National Academy of Portraits, Inc., and is on the Advisory Board of the Portrait Society of America. Sherbell lives and works on Long Island.
