Raoul Josset

The bell tower, its angels and its crosses, on the church of Roupy, by Raoul Josset

Raoul Jean Josset (born in 1899, Tours, died in 1957) was a French born American sculptor.^[1]

During the First World War, he worked as an interpreter for American forces in France. He was a pupil of Antoine Bourdelle between 1920 and 1926. He came to Chicago, Illinois in 1932 with his longtime collaborator Jose Martin to pursue a job with the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company only to find the job closed, but developed plenty of work, first in Illinois, briefly with Cowan Pottery in Lakewood, Ohio, and then principally in Texas.^[2] In 1953 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.

Hall of Administration, now the The Women's Museum, Dallas, Texas, 1936

Main works

• The sculptures of the bell tower and a Christ on a cross in the church of Roupy, 1922
• Monument to the dead of the 1914-1918 war in Châtillon-sur-Seine
• Monumental sculpted pylons at the Lincoln Memorial Bridge between Vincennes, Indiana and Illinois, 1933
• Darius-Girėnas Memorial, Marquette Park (Chicago), 1935
• Statue The Spirit of the Centennial, Administration Building of the Texas Centennial Exposition (now The Women's Museum), Fair Park, Dallas, Texas; 1936
• Work at the Houston City Hall, Houston, Texas, 1936 (with Matchett Herring Coe)
• Statue of Winged Angel at Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites, La Grange, Texas, 1936
• Fannin Monument, Goliad, Texas, 1939
• Excelsior for the New York State Pavilion, 1939 New York World's Fair
• Statue of George Childress at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, 1939

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