Gerard "Gerry" Tsutakawa (born 1947), son of artist

George Tsutakawa George Tsutakawa (February 22, 1910 – December 18, 1997) was an American painter and sculptor best known for his avant-garde bronze fountain designs. Born in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, he was raised in both the United States ...

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Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest (sometimes Cascadia, or simply abbreviated as PNW) is a geographic region in western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east. Though ...

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

. A studio apprentice for his artist father for 20 years, Gerry created his own first commissioned work in 1976. In the same studio where his father worked, he continues to design and fabricate anything from small studio bronze pieces to large public art fountains and sculptures.

History of artwork

Past sculpture projects include the ''Urban Peace Circle Memorial'' at Sam Smith Park in 1994, a collaboration with the Stop the Violence Committee where Tsutakawa contributed a bronze sculpture to the City of Seattle, in memory of youth who have died by handgun violence. In 1999, Tsutakawa created ''

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and in 2000 the ''Fountain of Seseragi'' at the Seattle Center. Recent commissions include the ''Salish Sea Circle'' in Port Townsend, bronze entrance gates for Seattle Park’s Kubota Garden and the Washington Park Japanese garden, the Annie Curtis sculpture at the Port of Anacortes, ''Uzumaki Curve'' in St Louis, and ''Thunderbolt'' at Union Plaza in downtown Seattle. Tsutakawa continues to work on public and private commissions around the Northwest and across the nation.

References

External links

Artist's Website
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Artwork and additional information at Woodside/Braseth Gallery, Seattle
1947 births Living people Pacific Northwest artists 20th-century American sculptors 21st-century American sculptors {{US-sculptor-stub