1897 - 1973
Rosin studied in Philadelphia at the School of Industrial Art (1911-1920) and under Charles Grafly at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1923-1926) where he won the Stewardson Prize for Sculpture and the Cresson Traveling Scholarship. Between 1926 and 1932 he was in Paris and, in 1933, was sent by the French government to Guadaloupe to execute a large concrete statue of Christ. He sculpted the busts of a number of Tahitian natives, especially children, while he was living on that island in 1933-37.
He maintained close ties with the Pennsylvania Academy and won the Widener Gold Medal there in 1939; he also taught there beginning in that year. His busts of John Fulton Folinsbee and Franklin Watkins, as well as the female figure Hina Rapa, are among the Pennsylvania Academy's permanent holdings. His statue of Duke Kahanamoku was executed for Waikiki Beach, Hawaii; The Samuels Memorial was done for placement on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia; and The Deerfield Boy was commissioned by the city of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
He maintained close ties with the Pennsylvania Academy and won the Widener Gold Medal there in 1939; he also taught there beginning in that year. His busts of John Fulton Folinsbee and Franklin Watkins, as well as the female figure Hina Rapa, are among the Pennsylvania Academy's permanent holdings. His statue of Duke Kahanamoku was executed for Waikiki Beach, Hawaii; The Samuels Memorial was done for placement on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia; and The Deerfield Boy was commissioned by the city of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
