Displayed at the Statue of Liberty and on Ellis Island, his best-known works serve as a monument to the immigrant experience.
Practically under the gaze of the Statue of Liberty, a set of smaller statues stands outside on Ellis Island, the site in New York Harbor where more than 12 million immigrants first stepped onto American shores beginning in the late 19th century.In one sculpture, a slim man grasping a violin case locks arms with his wife. In another, a willowy woman in a kerchief nestles her head against her baby’s crown and holds tight to an older child at her side, their pathos cast in bronze.
Mr. Ratner worked for decades in the Washington area, with a studio downtown and private sculpture students including Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. The Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian were among the institutions that collected Mr. Ratner’s work. His sculpture of a panda was displayed at the National Zoo.in Bethesda, an exhibition space and repository of Mr. Ratner’s sculptures, paintings, drawings and other works of art depicting figures from the Old Testament.
After graduating from Calvin Coolidge Senior High School, Mr. Ratner studied art at the Pratt Institute in New York, where he received a bachelor of fine arts degree in advertising design in 1959. He then enrolled at American University in Washington, where he received a master’s degree in arts in 1962.
In all his biblical art, he sought to make the stories of the Old Testament come vividly alive. “I’m not hanging drapes on the Grand Canyon,” he told the publication World and I in 1998, an apparent reference to the artist
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