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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.
Distance from Earth Magnitude Group Membership Notes Diameter (ly) ... 8.84 [1] between LG and Sculptor Group: Forms pair with NGC 300 70,000 ly 123 KKs 3: dSph [79] 6.91
Chris Booth (born 30 December 1948) is a New Zealand sculptor and practitioner of large-scale land art. [citation needed] [1]He has participated in numerous land art projects and exhibitions internationally and created significant public sculpture commissions in NZ, Australia, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Italy, Denmark, France and Canada.
NGC 300 (also known as Caldwell 70 or the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy [4]) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on 5 August 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop . [ 5 ]
In 2006, Chillida's classic 1961 sculpture, Rumor de Limites, more than doubled estimates to sell to a collector from the Iberian Peninsula for a record £2 million in London. [16] His corten steel sculpture Buscando La Luz IV (Looking for the Light IV) (2001) was sold for 4.1 million pounds at Christie's London in 2013. [17]
Naum Gabo (born Naum Neemia Pevsner; Russian: Наум Борисович Певзнер; Hebrew: נחום נחמיה פבזנר) (5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1890 – 23 August 1977) was an influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde and the subsequent development of twentieth-century sculpture. [1]
Delta Sculptoris (δ Scl, δ Sculptoris) is a triple star system [9] in the constellation Sculptor.It is approximately 137.4 light years from Earth. [1]The primary component, Delta Sculptoris A, is a white A-type main sequence dwarf [3] with an apparent magnitude of +4.59.
Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929, in Stockholm, [3] the son of Gösta Oldenburg [4] and his wife Sigrid Elisabeth née Lindforss. [5] His father was then a Swedish diplomat stationed in New York and in 1936 was appointed consul general of Sweden to Chicago where Oldenburg grew up, attending the Latin School of Chicago.