Artist
Frederick Wellington Ruckstull
Frederick Wellington Ruckstull is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This upstate New York sculptor was obsessed with hands—he’d carry a sketchbook and trace strangers’ fingers on napkins between meals. Most people know his crisp bronze *Ruckstull’s Rock* downtown, the one kids try to balance quarters on, but he also made a 20-foot oak tree trunk that looks like it’s still breathing. Drop by the park bench near it and watch how the light picks up every thumbprint he carved into the bark.
Works by Frederick Wellington Ruckstull
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.