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Sculptors Guild
Sculptors Guild, a society of sculptors who banded together to promote public interest in contemporary sculpture, was founded in 1937. Signatories to the original corporation papers (Sculptors Guild, Inc.) were Sonia Gordon Brown, Berta Margoulies, Aaron Goodelman, Chaim Gross (who became the first President), Minna Harkavy, Milton Horn, Concetta Scaravaglione, Warren Wheelock, and William Zorach. The inaugural exhibit of the Guild was held April 12 - May 31, 1938, on a vacant lot at Park Avenue and 39th St. This outdoor exhibit, the first of its kind in New York City, hosted 40,000 visitors paying an admission price of ten cents to view the work. Owing to the tremendous success of this first exhibit, the Brooklyn Museum held an exhibit of contemporary American sculpture by Guild members, October 21- November 27, 1938. The 58 founding members of the Sculptors Guild were: *Saul Baizerman *Aaron Ben-Shmuel *Simone Brangier Boas * Sonia Gordon Brown *Harold Cash *Albino Cavalito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Gordon Brown
Sonia Gordon Brown (russian: Соня Гордон Браун; January 11, 1890–c. 1965) was a Russian-American sculptor. Sonia Gordon Brown, née Sonia F. Rosental, was born in Moscow, Russia on January 11, 1890. She studied in Russia, with Nikolay Andreyev and Valentin Serov, and later in Paris, with Antoine Bourdelle Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important fi ....January 11, 2019 – Brown, Sonia Gordon: 129th birthday EnthnoPetersburg, этнопетербург.рф, January 9, 2019. Accessed August 24, 2019 She l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Greenbaum
Dorothea Schwarcz Greenbaum (1893–1986) was an American painter and sculptor. Biography She was born Dorothea Schwarcz to parents Emma and Maximilian Schwarcz in New York city on June 17, 1893. She studied at both the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and the Art Students League. In 1915, when Dorothea was 22, her father Maximilain drowned during the Sinking of the RMS Lusitania. As a young child, Greenbaum was chronically ill and could not attend traditional school. This lead her to enroll in Saturday art classes at the age of fifteen. She studied under the painter, Kenneth Hayes Miller. She discovered sculpting while recovering from an illness later in life, after she was given a piece of clay by a friend. Nature was her inspiration for her sculptures, as well as children, women and animals. Regarding her art, she was quoted in ''Dorothea Greenbaum: A Retrospective'', Exhibition Catalogue, 1972 : “I am interested in forms that displace the air around them.” She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Slobodkin
Louis Slobodkin (February 19, 1903 – May 8, 1975) was an American sculptor, writer, and illustrator of numerous children's books. Life Slobodkin was born on February 19, 1903, in Albany, New York. He attended the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City from 1918 to 1923. He supported himself by working as an elevator operator, a dishwasher, and in factory jobs. Slobodkin married Florence Gershkowitz, a poet and children's book writer in 1927. They had two children, Lawrence and Michael. He died of a heart attack at his home in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida on May 8, 1975. Career Slobodkin began his career as a sculptor. Teaching himself all manner of art from an early age, Slobodkin began to sculpt art at the age of ten. During the early 1930s he served as an assistant to Malvina Hoffman while she was creating the sculptures that would constitute The Races of Mankind exhibition at the Field Museum of Natural History. His first brush with fame came in 1938 when his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène Sardeau
Hélène Sardeau (July 7, 1899March 23, 1969) was an American sculptor, born in Antwerp, Belgium, who moved with her family to the United States when she was about 14 years old. Early years Sardeau arrived in the United States in 1913. She studied at Barnard College, the Art Students League of New York, Cooper Union, and at the School of American Sculpture, all in New York City. She studied with Mahonri Young. In the 1920s, she and he sister, Mathilde, created decorative portrait dolls depicting actors and actresses. She is credited with the masks for the 1927 film ''Prometheus in Chains''. Career She was a founding member of the Sculptors Guild. Her first major commission was ''The Slave'' (1940), completed as part of the Central Terrace of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial in Philadelphia and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art before its permanent installation. Her terra cotta sculpture, ''The Lovers'' (1937), was included in the Museum of Modern Art's ''Three Centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Sanford
Marion Sanford (February 9, 1904 - February 1987) was an American sculptor known for her bronze portraits of women engaged in everyday domestic activities. Early life and career Sanford was born to American parents in Guelph, Ontario and was raised on a farm in Warren, Pennsylvania. Her artistic education began at Pratt Institute, where she studied painting in 1922. She later worked as a stage and costume designer before developing an interest in sculpture. At the Art Students League of New York, Sanford studied sculpture under Leo Lentelli and Robert Laurent, experimenting with the direct-carving method. She also worked as an apprentice to artist Brenda Putnam between 1937 and 1940. Sanford provided pen and ink illustrations for Putnam's book, ''The Sculptor's Way,'' and is referred to by Putnam in that book as "my pupil, assistant and colleague." In 1937, Sanford had her first exhibition of sculptures. The same year, her statue ''Diana'' was awarded a prize by the National As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Robus
Hugo Robus (1885 – January 14, 1964) was an American sculptor. He co-founded an art colony in New City, New York. His sculptures are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Early life Robus was born in 1885 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the Cleveland School of Art in his hometown, the National Academy of Design in New York City, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Career Robus was a painter until the 1920s, when he became a sculptor. He established an art colony in New City, New York with Henry Varnum Poor and Martha Kantor in 1918. His sculptures were exhibited at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City and Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. They later became part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Melicov
Dina Melicov (1905–1969) was an American sculptor, and painter who studied at The Educational Alliance Art School. She graduated from Wadleigh High School for Girls, and studied with Solon Borglum. She married Samuel Gould. Dina Melicov was a member of the Sculptors Guild and the National Association of Women Artists. She worked for the Federal Art Project. Her works include a 1942 statue of ''Dr. Joseph Priestley'', sculpted of red mahogany, located at the Northumberland, Pennsylvania Post Office and ''Head of a Child'' for Public School 216 in New York City. Her papers are held at the Archives of American Art (AAA), with the Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ... in Washington, D.C. References External links Dina Melicov {{DEFAULTSO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Manship
Paul Howard Manship (December 24, 1885 – January 28, 1966) was an American sculptor. He consistently created mythological pieces in a classical style, and was a major force in the Art Deco movement. He is well known for his large public commissions, including the iconic ''Prometheus'' in Rockefeller Center and the ''Celestial Sphere Woodrow Wilson Memorial'' in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also credited for designing the modern rendition of New York City's official seal. Manship gained notice early in his career for rejecting the Beaux-Arts architecture movement and preferring linear compositions with a flowing simplicity. Additionally, he shared a summer home in Plainfield, New Hampshire, part of the Cornish Art Colony, with William Zorach for a number of years. Other members of the highly social colony were also contemporary artists. Manship created his own artist retreat on Cape Ann, developing a 15-acre site on two former granite quarries in Lanesville, a village of Glouc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oronzio Maldarelli
Oronzio Maldarelli was an American sculptor and painter (1892–1963) born in Naples, Italy. Education He was born on September 9, 1892 and immigrated with his parents, Michael Maldarelli, a goldsmith, and mother, Louisa Rizzo Maldarelli, to the United States in 1901. About 1906 he began taking modeling lessons at the Cooper Union, and after two years began to study at the National Academy of Design with Leon Kroll, Ivan Olinsky, and Hermon Atkins MacNeil. In 1912 he entered the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied under Jo Davidson, Elie Nadelman, John Gregory and others. Career Maldarelli's classical training allowed him to obtain commissions for both garden decorations and architectural sculpture. However as he grew older his work became more and more abstracted, though it would remain basically figurative. He taught at both Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. One known student, Mario Cooper, would go on to considerable fame as an illustrator and al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Kaz
Nathaniel Kaz (March 9, 1917 - December 13, 2010) was an American sculptor who was born in New York City. His parents were musicians and moved to Detroit when Kaz was young. It was in Detroit when he began his art studies with Samuel Cashwan. After moving to New York, Kaz continued his studies at the Art Students League where he was trained by George Bridgman and William Zorach.Opitz, Glenn B., ''Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers'', Apollo Books, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1988 In 1988 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1991. His son Eric Kaz is a musician and songwriter. Work Sculptures by Kaz are on exhibition and can be found in the collections of: * Brooklyn Museum *Whitney Museum *Metropolitan Museum of Art *Chicago Art Institute *Museum of Modern Art *Pennsylvania Academy *University of Nebraska * Philadelphia Museum of Art *New Britain Museum of American ArtBinghamton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Brassler Kane
Margaret Brassler Kane (May 25, 1909 – April 10, 2006) was an American figurative sculptor known for her use of the direct-carving method. Brassler Kane was born to parents Hans and Mathilde Trumpler Brassler in East Orange, New Jersey, and moved with her parents to Brooklyn in 1918. She attended Packer Collegiate Institute, Syracuse University, and the Art Students League of New York, as well as took lessons with John Hovannes. She won a number of prizes for her art during the 1940s. Many of her pieces depicted contemporary life, and tackled current issues of the day, including socioeconomic injustice and war. Brassler Kane was married to Arthur Ferris Kane in June 1930. One of Brassler Kane's best known works is a group of large relief panels carved in limewood, each six-by-six foot: ''Symbols of Changing Man'' (1937-39), ''Earthbound'' (1950-57), and ''Micro-Macrocosm'' (1960-67). The panels depict the history of humanity, exploring themes of science, technology, industry, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Hebald
Milton Elting Hebald (May 24, 1917 – January 5, 2015) was a sculptor who specialized in figurative bronze works. Twenty-three of his works are displayed in public in New York City, including the statues of Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest in front of the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. His major work is a , 12-piece "Zodiac Screen", then the largest sculpture in the world, commissioned by Pan-American Airlines for its terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, and now owned and stored by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Early life Hebald was born in New York City. He studied at several New York art schools, starting at the age of ten, including the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design.Milton Hebald New York City Statues. Accessed October 30, 2008. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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