28/05/2024
AT&T’s Golden Boy, gilded in 2020 in Dallas Texas with Marc Roussel of Roussel Studios. Originally named the Spirit of Electricity, sculpted by Evelyn Beatrice Longman in 1915. Its first location was on the top of 195 Broadway in downtown NYC. It was moved in 1983 to the lobby of Phillip Johnson’s AT&T building. The third location was in Bedminster NJ , where I first gilded it in 1991 , while working for Christine Roussel Inc. The sculpture is cast bronze 24 feet tall weighing 16 tons. Gilding a sculpture of this scale requires gilding in sections in 7 different sessions. We used Lefranc 12 hour oil size , and 23.75 karat loose leaf over a newly primed surface.
