Selah Bond, Jr. sculpture

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: RITArt-0058

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Selah Bond sculpture consists of a set of 3 bronze busts of former RIT presidents: Mark Ellingson (1936-1969), Paul Miller (1969-1979), and Richard Rose (1979-1992). Busts are encased in a plexiglass box.

Dates

Creation: circa 1970-1985

Creator

Bond, Jr., Selah (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to researchers.

Biographical / Historical

Selah Bond, Jr. was born on May 6, 1919. A resident of Honeoye, New York, Bond served as editor and writer of the Graphic Arts Research Center at RIT. He published several articles and books, including Thoughts into Words (1972) and "Our Subjective World of Color" (1971).

Of sculpting a likeness Bond wrote, "Understanding and accepting the differences between the living and an image of the living enables us to find real satisfaction in the prestigious tribute paid to a person by a commissioned sculpture."¹

Bond died Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at age 91.

_{1 "Understanding the Sculpted Image," by Selah Bond. Artscene: A Digest of News and Observations Published by Arts for Greater Rochester, 1982.}