"Tuesday's Child"
The original “R. M. Brodin Studios, Inc.” began way back in 1978 as a brother’s partnership between Rodger (Myron) Brodin and his younger brother, Neil Brodin. Rodger, of course, was the reason the business was created in the first place as he was born an artist and was frustrated in not being able to live the life of a self-taught free-lance artist and free to create “Art for Art’s Sake.” Neil, for his part, became Rodger’s business partner with the simple ambition to preserve his brother’s art and while creating a company structure with the potential to sometimes sell Art and at just the rate that would sustain and support Rodger on a simple continuing basis.
For several years, Rodger created “Art,” mostly sculpture in bronze, and many stunning and exotic works were produced such as the polished nude, “Tuesday’s Child” pictured to the right. She was part of the poem, Monday’s Child is Fair of Face, Tuesday’s Child is full of Grace… He created several other nude studies, and, perhaps his favorite of all, “I Am Loved” (on one toe, balanced gracefully, hugging herself), were beautiful and enjoyable for Rodger, but did not sustain and support as had been hoped. Something was needed to connect one work with another, to establish a theme and develop a relationship with a niche market.
Neil, as a uniformed police officer, suggested that Rodger’s ability in portraits and realistic human figures, could be directed at a profession such as Law Enforcement and become “Art as Recognition” and “Art as Honor” which when accepted by working people within a tight group such as police officers and other uniformed men and women, one art work might beget the next, and that one making way for the next, and a true art business was born.
Obviously, as you can see in the Studios’ first three main Product Sections, Law Enforcement, Fire/Rescue and the Military, Rodger’s next twelve years (1983 – 1995) were very much devoted to the production of uniformed figures, from 6″ miniatures to life-size monuments, all with purpose and Rodger was able along the way to pay particular attention to his beloved Marine Corps, after pending eight years (1958 – 1966) in uniform. Rodger died tragically in 1995 at the age of 55, survived by his wife, Rosemary and young sons, Michael (5 yrs) and Joey, age three. He will be sorely missed but his Art will live on and on.
Neil, having learned ”the trade” has moved on and into a second ”Brodin Studios, Inc.” corporation, joined by his partner of many years, Danielle Rodgers, herself a Senior Deputy Sheriff, the two have emphasized honoring the uniform professions, but have left a corner of the business to continue production of some of Rodger’s favorite’s and the sale of many other Works of Art for their own sake.
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