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John Rhoden

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John Walter Rhoden (March 13, 1916 – January 4, 2001) was an American sculptor from Birmingham, Alabama. Rhoden graduated from Birmingham's Industrial High School, and then enrolled at Talladega College on an art scholarship. At the suggestion of Hale Woodruff, he moved to New York in 1938, where he began studying with Richmond Barthé.

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