Known for "strange animals and figures" made from scrap steel, Charles
Rudy did most of these signature pieces when he worked as a welder of
glider planes noses at the Pitcairn-Larsen Autogiro Company at Willow
Grove, New Jersey. He took a job there during the summer of 1943
when he was age 39 and was too old to serve in the military.
During his time off, "he began to play around with unusable bits of
scrap steel left over from regular welding jobs. Soon to the (showing 500 of 3073 characters). |
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