Madam Your Mother Craves a Word with You by John Rogers

At the Orpheum Theater in downtown Sioux Falls, there are four John Rogers plaster sculptures on display. I had always admired them and I recently received permission to photograph them to model. (A big "Thank you!" to the Orpheum Management).

John Rogers (1829–1904) was an American sculptor who produced very popular, relatively inexpensive figurines in the latter 19th century.

He became famous for his small genre sculptures, popularly termed "Rogers Groups", which were mass-produced in ca