He assumed the position of head of art education at the IIT Institute of Design in 1955. While in Chicago, Waddell designed a program for students with Down's Syndrome and varied mental and physical challenges at Bruno Bettelheim’s Orthogenic School. In 1957, Waddell moved his family to Arizona and became head of Art Education at Arizona State College (later known as Arizona State University). He retired from ASU in 1964 to devote all of his energies to his artwork. In 2007, several life-sized bronze sculptures by Waddell were stolen, probably due to the value of the metal after the work has been melted. Death Waddell died November 27, 2019, at the age of 98. Selected public works Dance Mother (Ruth), - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Arizona 1962 Dance Daughters, - Yuma Art Center, Yuma, Arizona, 1963 That Which Might Have Been: Birmingham 1963, - Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix 1964; George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center, Phoenix Family, - Maricopa County Building, Phoenix, AZ 1967 Past and Present. – Glendale Community College, Glendale, Arizona 1968 Dance, Downtown Phoenix, AZ, 1968 to 1974 Marlo Seated, Phoenix Public Library, Phoenix AZ, 1977 Seated Flute Player, Weinstein Center for the Performing Arts, Evanston, Illinois, and University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1979 Apogee & Momentum, U.S. Tennis Association, Flushing Meadows, New York 1980 - 1988 Welcoming Muse, Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville, California I Am That I Am, Congregation Beth Israel (Scottsdale, Arizona), 1982 Seated Flute Player & Harpist, Ravinia Park, Chicago Awards Performing and Broadcast Arts Hall of Fame, The Herberger Theater (Phoenix), inducted in 2001. References Further reading Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Tracking the Nudes of Phoenix, unpublished manuscript Sarda, Michel F., John Henry Waddell: the Art and the Artist, Bridgewood Press, Phoenix, Arizona 1996 Waddell, John Henry and Ann R. Mealy, The Beauty of Individual Differences: A Study of the Waddell Sculpture Fellowship and the Master-Apprentice Relationship'', John Henry Waddell and Ann R Mealy, Flagstaff, Arizona 1985 External links Official Website Rising by Waddell - Relief 1921 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American painters American male painters Arizona State University faculty American art educators Illinois Institute of Technology faculty Modern painters Modern sculptors Artists from Des Moines, Iowa People from Evanston, Illinois Artists from Phoenix, Arizona School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni University of Chicago alumni National Louis University faculty 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists American male sculptors Sculptors