Wendell Dayton
Wendell Dayton was an American sculptor of both large- and small-scale abstract art, abstract, mostly steel, compositions. He operated a personal sculpture park in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, where he also lived and worked. At age 79, Dayton had a piece—a 1968 stainless steel work entitled ''Crescent—''acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for its permanent collection. At 80, he had a six-decade survey of his work shown at the Blum & Poe gallery in Los Angeles. Early life and work Dayton was born in Spokane, Washington, in 1938. He had an early interest in becoming a sign painter but went to Indiana University to study art, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts, B.F.A. in 1960. After graduating, Dayton hitchhiked to New York City, where he lived for 12 years, making a living as a guard at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum and as a maintenance painter at the Museum of Modern Art. Though not directly affiliated with any of the dom ...
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