sculptor
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who was born in
Schenectady, New York
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in 1949. At an early age he was fascinated by his father's small figurative woodcarvings.
Longhurst received a Bachelor of Architecture from
Kent State University
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in 1975. He began his artistic career in 1976 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His first commissioned works were three figurative sculptures in black walnut for Cincinnati businessman Joe David who owned Midwest Woodworking company. In 1978 Longhurst completed a life size figure in pine of an Adirondack hermit,
Noah John Rondeau
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Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York.
Although Longhurst's career began with figurative works, it soon evolved into non-representational abstraction in exotic woods, marble and granite that draws on his background in Architecture. Many of his pieces are defined as being at the intersection of where the fields of art and math overlap, and they have been discussed by Mathematicians such as Nathaniel Friedman, Reuben Hersh, and
Ivars Peterson
Ivars Peterson (born 4 December 1948) is an American mathematics writer.
Early life
Peterson received a B.Sc. in Physics and Chemistry and a B.Ed. in Education from the University of Toronto. Peterson received an M.A. in Journalism from the U ...
.Friedman, Nathaniel. "Robert Longhurst: Three Sculptures." ''Hyperseeing'' July 2007: 9-12.Hersh, Reuben. ''What is Mathematics, Really?'' Oxford: University of Oxford Press, 1997. Peterson, Ivars. ''Fragments of Infinity: A Kaleidoscope of Math and Art.'' New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2001. Some of his sculptures portray minimal surfaces, which were named after German geometer
Alfred Enneper
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. Nathaniel Friedman writes, "The surfaces f Longhurst's sculpturesgenerally have appealing sections with
negative curvature
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For curves, the canoni ...
(
saddle surface
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s). This is a natural intuitive result of Longhurst's feeling for satisfying shape rather than a mathematically deduced result."
Longhurst participated in the International Snow Sculpture Championships in
Breckenridge, Colorado
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, in 2000 and 2001, by joining a snow sculpting team from Minnesota. Two of his sculptures representing minimal surfaces were enlarged and carved from blocks of snow measuring 12' high x 10' wide x 10' deep."White Narcissus." ''Math Horizons'' November 2001: 2. In the 2000 championships, the team received second place, Artists' Choice Award, and People's Choice Award.
Robert Longhurst lives in
Chestertown, New York
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.
Selected Collections
* Adirondack Museum - Blue Mountain Lake, New York
*American Financial Corporation - Cincinnati, Ohio
*Amoco Corporation - Chicago, Illinois
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) Hotel - Tokyo, Japan
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AT&T
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- Chicago, Illinois
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Bank of Tokyo
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- New York, New York
*Bastion Industries - New York, New York
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BMC Software
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Burlington Northern Railroad
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- Fort Worth, Texas
*Champlin Oil Corporation - Fort Worth, Texas
*Chester B. Stem Incorporated - New Albany, Indiana
*Cornerstone Holdings Corporation - Aspen, Colorado
*Crown Associates Realty Incorporated - Beverly Hills, California
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Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
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Duke University
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- Durham, North Carolina
*Empire Capital Corporation - Southport, Connecticut
*Ensign-Bickford Industries - Simsbury, Connecticut
*Fuqua Industries - Atlanta, Georgia
*Ideal Textile Company - Los Angeles, California
*International Woodworking Fair - Norcross, Georgia
* Gary Kaplan & Associates - Los Angeles, California
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- Jasper, Indiana
*Louisville Courier Journal & Times - Louisville, Kentucky
*Midwest Woodworking Company - Cincinnati, Ohio
* Museum of Arts and Design - New York, New York
*National City Bank - Marion, Ohio
*National Reinsurance Corporation - Stamford, Connecticut
*Northern Natural Gas Company - Omaha, Nebraska
*Norton Simon Collection - New York, New York
*Prime Holding Company - Austin, Texas
*Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines - Oslo, Norway
*Seamless Technologies Incorporated - Morristown, New Jersey
*Seemac Incorporated - Carmel, Indiana
*Seven Bridges Foundation - Greenwich, CT
*Shipman Goodwin - Hartford, Connecticut
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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- Washington, D.C.
*Southwest Psychiatric Associates - Torrance, California
* Sperry Corporation - New York, New York
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Takasago International Corporation
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- Rockleigh, New Jersey
*Corning Tropel Corp. - Fairport, New York
*Valley National Bank - McAllen, Texas
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University of Michigan
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- Ann Arbor, Michigan
*Victor Wire & Cable - Los Angeles, California
*Wigand Corporation - Dallas, Texas
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