Everything about Frederick Roth totally explained
Frederick George Richard Roth (1872 –
1944) was an
American sculptor and
animalier, well known for portraying living
animals. The
statue of the
sled dog Balto in
New York City's
Central Park is perhaps his most famous piece.
Roth was born in
Brooklyn, New York and briefly worked in his father's business. He traveled to
Europe, where he took
art classes in several countries, including the
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and the
Royal Academy in
Berlin. He also studied animals in their natural
habitat. When he returned to the United States, he continued his schooling at the
New York Academy.
Roth won awards at the
Pan-American Exposition (1901) in Buffalo, the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) in
St. Louis, and the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) in
San Francisco, and at another
World's Fair in
Buenos Aires. He became the president of the
National Sculpture Society. From 1934 to 1936, he worked under the
Works Projects Administration as the head sculptor for the
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Works
Balto
His statue of Balto was unveiled on
December 17,
1925, and was the first statue in the city to honor a
dog. The black
Siberian Husky became famous during the
1925 serum run to Nome, which saved the children of the city from a
diphtheria epidemic.
The statue is
bronze, and is set on a large granite rock near the entrance of Central Park at East 67th Street, by the
Tisch Children's Zoo. A plaque on the front is engraved with seven sled dogs running through a
blizzard, and the following words:
» Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed
antitoxins 660 miles over rough ice, across treacherous waters, through
Arctic blizzards from
Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the Winter of 1925.
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The statue is popular among tourists, especially children.
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