Henry Jackson (1985) by Wendy M. Ross

An internationally recognized artist, Wendy M. Ross received her master’s degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1973. Her public portrait commissions include a monumental bronze bust of Justice William O. Douglas for the Supreme Court of the United States, and a second version at the C&O Canal National Historical Park in Washington, D.C., and a full-length statue of Congressman Phillip Burton overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Her larger-than-life-size seated figure of George Mason for the George Mason Memorial in Washington, D.C., was unveiled in 2002. It was described by  J. Carter Brown, former Director of the National Gallery of Art, as “one of the best pieces of public art he had reviewed in his 30 years as Chairman of the Fine Arts Commission.” Ross’s abstract steel works are located in many public and private collections. In 2002 she completed a horizontal hundred foot welded steel sculpture facing Boston Harbor of the Grand Staircase of the Boston World Trade Center.