An Italian Website credits the following additional works to Mr. Ardolino: The Dossali and the greater altar in the Saint Thomas Episcopal Church to New York; Parapets of the Lookerman Street Bridge in the state of the Deleware; Trinity English Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne , Indiana; The columns of the vestibule of the Nebraska State Capitol; Works in the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York City; Works in the Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York City; Works in the Heinz Memorial Chapel, University of Pittsburg; Works in the Princeton University Chapel in the New Jersey; Works in the LAST Courthouse in Foley Square , New York City; and Works at National Archives building in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Ardolino's portrait on this page was graciously donated by his son, Mr. Robert T. Linstone.
Bisonwerks greatly appreciates the generous donation of this image.
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The gentleman seated here is the sculptor Eduardo (Edward) Ardolino. His company, the Edward Ardolino Company, did the actual carving for Lee Lawrie on the works at the Nebraska State Captiol. There are other works on which Lawrie and Ardolino collaborated. Stay tuned for more research on that.
Ardolino was born in from Torre le Nocelle, Italy around 1883. He immigrated to the United States on October 21, 1898 and became prominet in his field. He died on April 12, 1945 in Metuchen, New Jersey at 62 years of age.
Other works include the facade at the
To learn more about Mr. Ardlolino, click here for the Smithsonian Institute's records of his works, which, by the way, areapparently incomplete. Source