Original works of art

Frederick George Richard Roth was an American sculptor and Animalier, well known for portraying living animals. The statue of the sled dog Balto in New York City's Central Park is perhaps his most famous piece.
Roth was born in Brooklyn New York. He was educated in Germany and studied at both the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Royal Academy in Berlin. He also studied animals in their natural habitat. When he returned to the United States, he continued his schooling at the New York Academy. By 1900, he was working professionally as a sculptor.
He exhibited and won awards at the Pan American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 in St. Louis, and the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. From 1934 to 1936 he was the head sculptor of the Department of Parks in New York City under the Works Project Administration. He was president of the National Sculpture Society and a member of the Architectural League of New York and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1906.