Portrait Busts and Statues

Marc Mellon Sculpture Studio - Marc Mellon is one of America's best sculptors, well known for his bronze portrait busts and commemorative statues recognizing leadership and outstanding achievement with bronze public art sculptures.

Bust of Jacques d'AmboisE

In-process clay and bronze of renowned Dancer, Choreographer, and Educator.
The bronze bust will be permanently installed at The National Dance Institute, Harlem

National Dance Leadership with the bronze bust and Marc, Bedi-Makky Art Foundry

Project patron Shining Sung with Jacques' bust and Marc

Mellon reqularly adds new busts that project the values embraced in his "Globe-Changers" series. The most recent of these busts include President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, Genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, climate crisis activist Greta Thunberg, and sports icon and fighter for equality Jackie Robinson

Bust of President Zelenskyy

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The bust is on view at the Ukrainian Institute of America in Manhattan on 79th and Fifth. The bust was begun at the start of the war, late February, 2022, and the bronze will be auctioned for Ukrainian relief, later in 2023.

©Marc Mellon 2023

Bust of RAPHAEL LEMPKIN

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BUST OF GRETA THUNBERG

Study in beeswax on reclaimed wood, life-size

BUST OF JACKIE ROBINSON

Jackie Robinson - George Shuba Commemorative Statue
A Handshake for the Century

Co-chair of the project committee Ernie Brown with Mellon.

Co-chair of the project committee Herb Washington with Mellon and Mike Shuba, George Shuba's son, who worked with his father to teach schoolchildren the history of the historic handshake.

Youngstown Mayor Tito Brown with Mellon, after the formal transfer of the statue from the Robinson-Shuba Commemorative Statue Committee to The City of Youngstown, Ohio.

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The Robinson-Shuba Commemorative Statue was unveiled at Wean Park, Youngstown, Ohio,
July 17, 2021, for the 75th anniversary of

“A Handshake For The Century”

On April 18, 1946, rookie ballplayer Jackie Robinson’s first regular-season hit for the Montreal Royals - the minor league team developing players for the Brooklyn Dodgers - was a 3-run home run. The teammates he drove in did not stop at home plate to congratulate Robinson, but on-deck hitter George “Shotgun” Shuba leaped forward to extend his hand. This spontaneous color-blind gesture was so unprecedented, it became national news, and marked the transition from segregated to integrated big-league baseball. Robinson broke the color barrier for the Brooklyn Dodgers a year later – a harbinger of the coming Civil Rights Movement.

Bust of elie wiesel

Elie Wiesel Plaza, Bucharest, Romania
Dedicated October 9, 2018

Also in the collection of the 92nd street Y, New York, NY; and The Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University

Bronze Portrait Bust, Over-Life Sized

Working on the clay model of the original life-size bust, New York City.

Elie Wiesel Bust Dedication, October, 2012, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY with Elie and Marion Wiesel and sculptor Marc Mellon.

Elie Wiesel Bust Dedication, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University, September 2014 with Babette Bloch and Marc Mellon.

Marc refining the enlarged model for the Elie Wiesel Plaza bronze, Mellon Studio, Redding, CT.

Final refining of the wax model for the bronze cast.

At the foundry, Marc inspecting the fine detailing of the Elie Wiesel Plaza bronze.

Marc delivering remarks in tribute to Elie Wiesel at the dedication. Pictured left to right: Mayor of Bucharest Gabriela Firea, Israeli Ambassador to Romania Tamar Samash, and US Ambassador to Romania Hans Klemm.

Marc Mellon with his wife Babette Bloch and their daughter Julia Bloch Mellon.

On October 9, 2018, Holocaust Remembrance Day in Romania, a bust of Elie Wiesel was dedicated in Elie Wiesel Plaza, Bucharest. The project was supported by Marion Wiesel and the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, the Mayor of Bucharest, the “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The large-scale bronze bust was sculpted by Marc Mellon, who enlarged and reworked the original portrait bust he had created from life sittings with Elie Wiesel in Mellon’s New York City studio.

EDMUND Hajim STATUE

University of Rochester, Edmund A. Hajim Science & Engineering Quadrangle, Rochester, NY

Dedicated October 2016

Bronze Commemorative Statue, 8' high

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George Eastman Statue

University of Rochester, Eastman Quadrangle, Rochester, NY,
Dedicated October 2009
Bronze Commemorative Statue, 8' high

Alton Ochsner Statue

POPE JOHN PAUL II

Collection of the Vatican,
Papal Apartments

Presented to the Vatican by
The Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding (CCJU),
Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, CT

Bronze Portrait Bust, Over-Life Sized

PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH

Collections of:
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Central Intelligence Agency, Headquarters Building, Langley, VA
The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University

Bronze Portrait Bust, Over Life-Size