DFH is a three-sculptor partnership which has a successful track record of researching, designing and sculpting significant public monuments.  Most of the team’s works are realist-figurative and bas-relief sculptures devoted to the aesthetic illumination of important histories and uplifting allegories, created in monumental scale cast in bronze.  The group has won many national competitions including: a sculpture of Thomas Jefferson for the University of Virginia, a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln-as-a-Boy for the State of  Kentucky, four monumental niche allegories to civilization in the Utah-State Capitol rotunda, a comprehensive sculpture and landscape design featuring twenty-one bronze monuments honoring the unique history of African Americans in Oklahoma set on two-acres of the Oklahoma state-capitol grounds, and A National Salute to the US Military in California.

Eugene Daub is the group’s master sculptor.  He received training at the Pennsylvania Academy for the Fine Arts and the University of Pittsburgh.  His extraordinary accomplishments have been recognized through numerous prestigious awards in full-figure, monumental and bas-relief sculpture. These include the Arthur Ross Award for sculpture from the Institute for Classical Architecture and Classical America and the American Numismatic Association Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Bas Relief Sculpture.  His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, The British Museum, Ellis Island Museum, as well as other public installations in the U.S.  His pre-DFH monuments include a five-figure Tribute to Lewis and Clark in Kansas City, the USS San Diego CL-53 Memorial and a 17-foot Lewis and Clark expedition relief in the Montana Senate chamber.  Daub is one of a handful of nationally and internationally recognized artists who combine the classical tradition with a humanistic rendition of heroism.  He lives in San Pedro, California.

Rob Firmin is a sculptor who also contributes historical, management and high-tech expertise to monumental projects.  His degrees are a double-major in history and art history in undergraduate school, an MBA from Columbia University and an MA and Ph.D. from The University of Chicago, which contribute to DFH’s research into its sculpture subjects, its ability to organize itself financially and its disciplined project management.  Rob began his realist figurative sculpture studies after an established  career in high technology as an inventor/entrepreneur, studying under Thomas Marsh, Carol Tarzier, Stephen Perkins, Tebby George, Eugene Daub, and others.  He values greatly the role historical education plays in the progress of civilization and infuses the DFH’s creative process with this value.

Jonah Hendrickson is an artist whose commitment to sculpting began at the age of nine. Now in his early thirties, Jonah contributes his expert skills in realist-figurative and portrait sculpting to DFH. His university degrees are in Studio Arts and Rhetoric and Communications from the University of California, Davis. He has studied with figurative sculptors Thomas Marsh, Bruce Wolfe, and Richard Macdonald. Jonah has been commissioned to sculpt portrait busts of luminaries such as UC President Richard C. Atkinson and Civic Arts leader Kent Nagano and exhibited his works at the California Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museum and San Francisco art galleries. Along with a passion for sculpting, Jonah has taught sculpture workshops and classes to both adults and children for the past 10 years. With proceeds from his art works, Jonah has been a sponsor to a local breast cancer foundation and local schools. Jonah lives in Oakland, California, with his wife Nicky.