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Monument to honor Sand Miners
Edward Jonas has been commissioned by Sandminer’s Monument, Inc. to design and create a monument to honor the men that worked at the Port Washington sand mines. This Long Island sand was used to build the streets and skyscrapers of New York City. The monument will be installed at a site that contains one of the last surviving tunnels used during the sand mining operations. More than 200 million tons of sand were dug, from the late 1860s through the 1980s, and ferried to the concrete mixers of the growing city.
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Bing Crosby for the Players Club
Edward Jonas, as well as, seventeen other contemporary artists was recently given the honor of painting past members of the historic Players Club for their newly organized Hall of Fame. Ed was selected to paint Bing Crosby’s portrait, which now hangs among the Players Club’s impressive collection of portraits, including those by John Singer Sargent, Norman Rockwell, and Everett Raymond Kinstler. The Player’s Club, located in Gramercy Park, is a private club for men and women of the arts and letters.
Edward Jonas speaks at National Conference
At the Portrait Society’s 10th anniversary celebration, The Art of the Portrait, Edward Jonas gave a workshop entitled Anatomical Foundations of Building a Face. The hour and a half lecture covered the important of anatomical knowledge in paintings and sculptures. Anthropology, forensics, medical studies and proportional relationships were referenced throughout the session.
National Portrait Gallery Acquires Sculpture by Edward Jonas
On December 3, 2007 the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery collection committee voted to acquire the bronze bust of Raymond D. Nasher, sculpted by Edward Jonas, into their permanent collection.