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There is a documentary about the late sculptor titled Ruth Duckworth: A Life in Clay. [11] Ruth Duckworth's artistic synthesis-combining aesthetic influences from many times and places with her unique contemporary vision-is most masterfully executed in her figural studies grounded in Cycladic formalism.
Gwen Gillen began her career as a sculptor by creating small, test sculptures in the basement studio of her home in Hustisford, Wisconsin. [4] [5]In 2001, Gillen, by then an accomplished sculptor, was commissioned to create and cast a statue of Mary Tyler Moore's iconic cap tossing scene from the opening of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which was set in a fictional television station in ...
Michael Heizer (born 1944) is an American land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. [1] Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process.
Emma Stebbins (1 September 1815 – 25 October 1882) was an American sculptor and the first woman to receive a public art commission from New York City. She is best known for her work Angel of the Waters (1873), the centerpiece of the Bethesda Fountain, located on the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park, New York.
Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, [1] largely associated with Great Britain and the United States [2] [3] [4] but that also includes examples from many countries. As a trend, "land art" expanded boundaries of art by the materials used and the siting ...
"From the Ground Up: Renwick Craft Invitational 2007" by Jane Milosch and Suzanne Frantz, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2007, ISBN 0-9790678-1-2 "Beth Cavener Stichter" by Garth Clark, New York: Garth Clark Gallery, 2006; 500 Animals in Clay: Contemporary Expressions of the Animal Form by Joe Bova, Lark Books, November 2006, ISBN 978-1-57990 ...
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Roxanne Swentzell (born December 9, 1962) is a Santa Clara Tewa Native American sculptor, ceramic artist, Indigenous food activist, and gallerist. Her artworks are in major public collections and she has won numerous awards. [1] Swentzell's work addresses personal and social commentary, reflecting respect for family, cultural heritage, and for ...