Bison
Aylett Art Foundry
Richmond, VA
Bronze
2018, commissioned
Museum Quality Bronze Sculpture
Produced Through the Lost Wax Casting Process
Featured in museum, corporate and private collections, Rubin Peacock’s bronze sculptures are unique creations cast in his own foundry and hand-finished by him.
These works emerge from a timeless appreciation of form, unity, tension, and mysticism. They stand solidly, unshakable in their concentration of energy and purity of craftsmanship.
Emerging from centuries of sculptural tradition in bronze, they are totems very much of today. They pry into the idioms of our time, yet retain the influence and sincerity of their European past. These sculptures merge the architectonic rigidity of geometrical shapes with an organic strength and flowing force of nature.
Lazarus II
INSTALLED AT THE BRANCH MUSEUM OF DESIGN, RICHMOND, VA in 2024
Sculptor Rubin Peacock created Lazarus II, a 6-foot bronze sculpture for the Branch Museum of Design in Richmond, Virginia. Inspired by natural forms, the biomorphic piece features dynamic curves and geometric tension, evoking themes of resilience and upward momentum. Set against the solid, historic backdrop of the 1919 Tudor Revival museum—designed by famed architect John Russell Pope—Lazarus II offers a contemporary counterpoint. Rubin describes the vertical energy of the sculpture as a visual and emotional contrast to the building’s grounded permanence, both working together to express endurance and the will to survive.
Wildlife, Wildflowers, and Wild Imagination
ON VIEW AT THE GOVERNOR’s Mansion
“Huntley Meadows,” is on loan from the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to the Virginia’s Governor’s Mansion. This 5′ x 6′ oil on canvas was painted in 1978 on the front portico of Historic Huntley, a Federal era villa built for a grandson of George Mason, author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. At the time of the painting, Huntley was the family home of William Amlong, an artist friend of Rubin’s. Huntley overlooks a meadow, now a park. It is home to wildlife and wildflowers, discernible in the biomorphic shapes for which Rubin in known.
What lasts when everything changes?
Made in metal. Made to last.
AVAILABLE WORKS
RUBIN’S Book
Selected Commissions
Why Bronze Rubin?
Other materials are easier to work with, less costly, technically less demanding. But bronze is strong, bold yet responsive. It shows the human touch. It doesn’t lie.
There’s no room for cheating. It has purity. I am willing to go through the agony to get the perfect cast.
FEatured Works
