"Modernism more dramatically than any other sculpture, English or continental, then or since"". Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) was an American-born sculptor who had moved to Europe in 1902, and taken British citizenship in 1911. Although Epstein was not officially a member of the Vorticists, not having signed the Vorticist Manifesto, the full-figure sculpture has also been hailed as the pinnacle of Vorticist art. Originally a positive statement, ""Rock Drill"" stood as a celebration of modern machinery and masculine virility. Wyndham Lewis described the sculpture as 'one of the best things he [Epstein] has done. The nerve-like figure perched on the machinery,"
"John Angel (sculptor) John Angel (November 1, 1881 – October 16, 1960) was a British-born sculptor, architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor, medallist and lecturer. He emigrated to the United States where he created architectural sculpture. His work in the United Kingdom and the United States has been critically praised. He was born in Newton Abbot, Devon, England, the son of a tailor, and one of ten children. He entered a seven-year apprenticeship to a wood carver at the age of 14 years. His work in the United Kingdom includes the Exeter War Memorial and the Bridgwater War Memorial also known as"
"by Henry S. Angel in 1981. Elizabeth Day Seymour's papers are with her family's 51 linear feet on deposit at the Yale University Library. John Angel (sculptor) John Angel (November 1, 1881 – October 16, 1960) was a British-born sculptor, architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor, medallist and lecturer. He emigrated to the United States where he created architectural sculpture. His work in the United Kingdom and the United States has been critically praised. He was born in Newton Abbot, Devon, England, the son of a tailor, and one of ten children. He entered a seven-year apprenticeship to a wood carver at"
"Jorgen Dreyer Jørgen Christian Dreyer (December 26, 1877 – November 17, 1948) was a Norwegian-born American sculptor. He emigrated to the United States in 1903 and worked as a professor of sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1907 to 1909. In his career Dreyer created a number of monumental sculptures, some of which are located in Kansas City, Missouri. His major works include: ""Life Drift""; ""The Goddess of Dawn""; ""Sphinxes"" (pair); ""Biology and Chemistry"" (pair of Atlas figures); ""Lionesses"" (pair); ""The Message"" (a bust of Archibald Butt); ""Bust of Sir Carl Busch""; ""Mercury, god of commerce""; and ""Bust"
"us the very sculptor we had dreamed of but hardly dared hope for."" British-American biological anthropologist John Lawrence Angel (1915–1986) was Angel-Seymour's son. When he died in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, he was reputed to be one of America’s foremost sculptors; some considered him unrivaled for the times, comparing him to some of the finest sculptors of the Middle Ages. Two main works were at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York and in the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes, Indiana. The latter includes a rendering of Francis Vigo. Angel himself proclaimed the ten-ton Vigo"
"Los Angeles, and de Creeft’s work ""The Cloud"", was chosen for the cover of the catalog ( University of Washington Press, 1995 . Two Solo Exhibitions of de Creeft’s work were held in 1997, an exhibition of drawings, at the MB Modern Gallery, and ""Sculpture and Drawings"" at The Child’s Gallery, both in New York City. Jose de Creeft José Mariano de Creeft (November 27, 1884 - September 11, 1982) was a Spanish-born American artist, sculptor, and teacher known for modern sculpture in stone, metal, and wood, particularly figural works of women. His 16 ft bronze ""Alice In Wonderland"" climbing"
"Horatio Greenough Horatio Greenough (September 6, 1805 – December 18, 1852) was an American sculptor best known for his United States government commissions ""The Rescue"" (1837–50) and ""George Washington"" (1840). The son of David and Elizabeth Bender, he was born in Boston on September 6, 1805, into a home with ethics for honesty and emphasis on good education. Horatio showed an early interest in artistic and mechanical hobbies. Particularly attracted to chalk, around the age of 12 he made a chalk statue of William Penn, known as his earliest work of record. Horatio also experimented with clay, which medium he"
"listed Jung and Buddhism as important theoretical influences, and has said that she is interested in ""correlating worldwide religions and esoteric practices with the individual psyche."" Daisy Youngblood Daisy Youngblood (born 1945) is an American modern sculptor and ceramic artist. She grew up in North Carolina and currently lives in New Mexico. She was a 2003 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program genius grant. From 1963 to 1966, Youngblood attended Virginia Commonwealth University. Youngblood's most well-known sculptural work comprises heads and torsos of people and animals made in low-fired clay, combined with found objects (sticks, teeth, hair). Some of the"
"Alexis Rockman Alexis Rockman (born 1962) is an American contemporary artist known for his paintings that provide depictions of future landscapes as they might exist with impacts of climate change and evolution influenced by genetic engineering. He has exhibited his work in the United States since 1985, including a 2004 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, and internationally since 1989. Alexis Rockman lives in New York City, and works out of a studio in the city's TriBeCa neighborhood. Rockman was born and grew up in New York City. Rockman's stepfather, an Australian jazz musician, brought the family to Australia frequently. As"
"sculpture art. Johnson is known for both his unusual artistic productions and for his process. He is also known for combining various science with black history so that his materials, which are formally independent, are augmented by their relation to black history. He was a 2012 Hugo Boss Prize finalist. Johnson was born in Illinois to an academic and scholar mother, Dr. Cheryl Johnson-Odim, and a former Vietnam-war veteran father, Jimmy Johnson, who was an artist but worked in electronics. His parents divorced when he was 2 years old. His mother remarried a man of Nigerian descent. Johnson said that"
"Death and the Sculptor Death and the Sculptor, also known as the Milmore Monument and The Angel of Death and the Young Sculptor is a sculpture in bronze, and one of the most important and influential works of art created by sculptor Daniel Chester French. The work was commissioned to mark the grave in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, of the brothers Joseph (1841-1886), James and Martin Milmore (1844-1883). It has two figures effectively in the round, linked to a background relief behind them. The right-hand figure represents a sculptor, whose hand holding a chisel is gently"
"Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens (1869–1943) was an American sculptor, born in Flint, Ohio. She is best remembered for creating sculptures of ""animals, children (and) fountains"", but she also did the finishing carving on a ""colossal marble figure"", the allegorical sculpture ""Painting"" in front of the St. Louis Art Museum. She was also significant in the art world as being the wife of Louis Saint-Gaudens and the sister-in-law of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, with whom she studied and worked as an assistant. As a young child Johnson began to draw and then model figures. Eventually her parents, realizing that their daughter"
"and lives in Harlem, New York. Deodate Series, (1969); Wing Figures Series (1988–95); Galactic Nascence Series (1997), Galaxy Cluster Series, (2001–2002), Dark Matters and Entropy, (2006) . Carver Federal Savings Bank, New York Jack White (sculptor) John ""Jack"" H. White (born July 6, 1940) is an American sculptor, Fresco painter and photographer. Jack White was born in Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York. His parents, Rosa Brown and Oscar Cornelius White, were originally from Jamestown and McClellanville, South Carolina, respectively. Rosa and Oscar migrated from South Carolina and settled in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, where they"
"Cyrus Edwin Dallin Cyrus Edwin Dallin (November 22, 1861 – November 14, 1944) was an American sculptor best known for his depictions of Native American men. He created more than 260 works, including the equestrian statue of Paul Revere in Boston, Massachusetts; the Angel Moroni atop Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah; and his most famous work, ""Appeal to the Great Spirit"", at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was also an Olympic archer. Dallin, the son of Thomas and Jane (Hamer) Dallin, was born in Springville, Utah Territory, to a family then belonging to The Church"
"""India Blake"". John Seward Johnson II John Seward Johnson II (born 16 April 1930), also known as J. Seward Johnson Jr. and Seward Johnson, is an American artist known for his ""trompe l'oeil"" painted bronze statues. He is a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I, the co-founder of Johnson & Johnson and Colonel Thomas Melville Dill of Bermuda. He creates life-size bronze statues, which are castings of living people, depicting them engaged in day-to-day activities. A large staff of technicians perform the fabrication. He is founder of Grounds for Sculpture. Johnson was born in New Jersey. His father was John"
"John Collier (sculptor) John Collier (born June 26, 1948) is an American sculptor and artist, most renowned as one of the sculptors for the Catholic Memorial at Ground Zero. Collier was born on June 26, 1948 in Dallas, Texas to parents Carroll Lloyd Collier and Mildred Louise Ferguson, and was the oldest of six children (three brothers, two sisters). He attended and graduated school in Dallas, and according to his father (an artist himself), ""...demonstrated great talent...as an artist..."" During his time in college at North Texas, John originally planned to study philosophy or engineering. The academic curriculum allowed him"
"Lawrence James Beck Larry Beck (May 20, 1938 – March 27, 1994), full name Lawrence James Beck, was an American sculptor born in Seattle, Washington. Beck was one quarter Native Alaskan, a cause of both conflict and inspiration during his career. His work ranged from industrial assemblages and happenings in the 60's to large, abstract public commissions in the 70's to Yup'ik masks inspired by traditional Yup'ik pieces, but rendered with modern industrial and manufactured materials which he began in the 80's and was working on up until his death. Beck's father was American, his mother was Norwegian/Yup'ik from Alaska."
"is well known for his architectural sculpture. Examples include bas relief panels on the structure and sarcophagus of the Huntington Mausoleum by architect John Russell Pope at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California; and the larger-than-life panels, ""Columbia"" and ""Urban Life"", on either side of the steps in John Marshall Park, Judiciary Square, Washington, D.C. Gregory was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the American Federation of Arts, and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. John Gregory (sculptor) John Clements Gregory (May 17, 1879, London, England – 1958) was an American sculptor. When he was about 12 years old"
"of the Lake Catholic Church in Rockwall Texas, Oscar de la Renta, Catholic Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Random House Publishing, Walt Disney Productions, ""Time"" magazine, St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church in McKinney TX, and DeBeers Diamonds. While much of his life has been spent making art for the world's major secular institutions and for private collectors, in recent years, John has devoted himself to painting and sculpting for the church. John Collier (sculptor) John Collier (born June 26, 1948) is an American sculptor and artist, most renowned as one of the sculptors for the Catholic Memorial at Ground Zero. Collier was"
"John Coleman (artist) John Coleman is an American sculptor and painter. His subject matter focuses on the American West, especially Native American historical and mythological figures of Southwestern United States. His works are held in the permanent collections of the Briscoe Western Art Museum, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Joslyn Art Museum, Gilcrease Museum, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, and . Coleman was born in 1949 in Southern California, and grew up in Manhattan Beach, California. He was the second child of three boys born to Mark and Jean Coleman. From a young"
"in Africa. Jack Storms Jack Storms (born September 25, 1970) is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur. He is known as ""one of just three standout cold glass craftsmen"" in the United States. He uses a cold glass sculpting process. Storms' glass Spectrum Cube and Tear Drop sculptures are part of the story and set design in the Marvel film ""Guardians of the Galaxy"". His work has been commissioned for Derek Jeter and the President of Nigeria. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Storms attended Plymouth State University where he earned a degree in art, studio emphasis, with a minor in"
"has total command."" Lonas' work is the subject of the book ""Synthese und Neuerung : Skulpturen, Zeichnungen von Joseph Henry Lonas,"" authored by John Gabriel. Gabriel comments that ""Lonas's work reflects independence of mind and a spirit of individualism. He has made a notable contribution to contemporary sculpture."" Joseph Henry Lonas Joseph Henry Lonas (4 January 1925 – 3 August 2011) was an American sculptor and painter who spent most of his artistic career in Berlin, Germany. Joseph Henry Lonas was born in Manassas, VA in 1925 and began his artistic education at the age of 14 at the Corcoran"
"art, culture and education."" Robert Russin Robert Isaiah Russin (August 26, 1914 - December 13, 2007) was an American sculptor, artist and University of Wyoming professor. He was best known for a number of public sculptures throughout the United States, including the ""Spirit of Life"" fountain sculpture located at the City of Hope National Medical Center in California and a giant bust of Abraham Lincoln, the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Monument, located on I-80 in Wyoming. Robert Russin was born in New York City on August 26, 1914. He received both his bachelor's degree and master's degree from the City College"
"Greg Simkins Greg ""Craola"" Simkins (born February 28, 1975) is an American artist. Greg Simkins was born in Torrance, California, slightly south of Los Angeles. His artistic ambitions bloomed at age three with drawings inspired by cartoons and books. Some of these works, such as ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" by C.S. Lewis, ""The Phantom Tollbooth"" by Norton Juster, and ""Watership Down"" by Richard Adams, still find reference in his art. He grew up with a variety of animals, including a number of rabbits, which often appear in his paintings. Simkins earned his B.A. in Studio Art from California State University,"
"Danny Lane Danny Lane (born 27 January 1955) is an American artist, best known for his glass and steel sculpture. Lane is also known for his work in art furniture and contemporary design. He lives and works in London. Lane came to attention in the 1980s through his art furniture. He moved into large-scale public sculpture in the 1990s, being responsible in 2006 for ""Borealis"", believed to be the largest glass sculpture in the world. Lane’s work can be found in public spaces and collections worldwide, such as London Underground, Canary Wharf Plc, Victoria & Albert Museum, Microsoft, British Land"
"John Marshall (sculptor) John ""Jack"" Marshall was an American artist best known for his sculptures. Marshall was born in Quincy, Massachusetts on Feb. 27, 1932, son of Francis J. and Josephine (Ghigli) Marshall. He enlisted in the U.S. Army for three years as a linguistic specialist and was honorably discharged June 5, 1951. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in design from the Massachusetts College of Art. He obtained a graduate degree from Boston University in studio arts and one from the Yale School of Architecture in environmental design and installation art on a full scholarship. He died on"
"Greg Wyatt Greg Wyatt is an American representational sculptor who works primarily in cast bronze, and is the sculptor-in-residence at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City. Wyatt was born and raised in Grand View-on-Hudson, New York. His father was William Stanley Wyatt, a painter and professor of fine arts at Columbia University, Rockland Community College and the City College of New York. Greg Wyatt graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History. He attended the National Academy of Design for three years, where he"
"John Seward Johnson II John Seward Johnson II (born 16 April 1930), also known as J. Seward Johnson Jr. and Seward Johnson, is an American artist known for his ""trompe l'oeil"" painted bronze statues. He is a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I, the co-founder of Johnson & Johnson and Colonel Thomas Melville Dill of Bermuda. He creates life-size bronze statues, which are castings of living people, depicting them engaged in day-to-day activities. A large staff of technicians perform the fabrication. He is founder of Grounds for Sculpture. Johnson was born in New Jersey. His father was John Seward Johnson"
"away by the weather, making it difficult to read her name, dates, etc., Walk About New York, developer of the Gay Graves Tour, would like to start a campaign to replace it. Emma Stebbins Emma Stebbins (1 September 1815 – 25 October 1882) was an American sculptor. She is best known for her work “The Angel of the Waters” (1873), also known as “Bethesda Fountain,” located on the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park, New York. Stebbins was born in New York City to a wealthy family who encouraged by her pursuit of art from an early age. In 1857, her"
"an art historian and environmentalist. He has two children, Lauren and Joseph. Danny Lane Danny Lane (born 27 January 1955) is an American artist, best known for his glass and steel sculpture. Lane is also known for his work in art furniture and contemporary design. He lives and works in London. Lane came to attention in the 1980s through his art furniture. He moved into large-scale public sculpture in the 1990s, being responsible in 2006 for ""Borealis"", believed to be the largest glass sculpture in the world. Lane’s work can be found in public spaces and collections worldwide, such as"
"and the United States. He continues to be recognized for his work with Kwekwe serpentine and lapidolite. Bronson Gengezha Bronson Gengezha (born April 21, 1981) is a Zimbabwean sculptor. A native of Dzivarasekwa, he attended Ellis Robins School where he took a special interest in art history. Gengezha credits his father, Temba Gengezha, as his greatest inspiration to create beautiful works. From 1975 until his untimely death in 2001, Temba Gengezha's sculptures were popular and celebrated both locally and abroad for their style and artistry. As a child, Gengezha played with stones on the floor of his father's workshops but"
"Kim Douglas Wiggins Kim Douglas Wiggins (born April 8, 1959) is an American painter and sculptor best known for his expressionist landscapes and historical imagery of the American West. His work was recently seen in November 2007 in a solo exhibition at Altermann Galleries in New York City, as well as numerous exhibitions at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles. Additionally, a collection of Wiggins's work depicting the history of California has been exhibited at the Staples Center in Los Angeles since opening in 1999. Kim Wiggins grew up on a ranch in southern New Mexico and began his"
"Elizabeth Turk Elizabeth Turk is an American sculptor who works primarily with marble, transforming this material into refined pieces infused with classical beauty. She has been recognized with numerous awards and fellowships, including the prestigious MacArthur ""Genius Grant."" Turk was born in California in 1961 and grew up in the western United States. The natural and cultural surroundings of the various locales she called home, specifically the Pacific Ocean along the Southern California coastline and the Native American culture in New Mexico, served as visual influences for her work. She moved to Washington, D.C. to pursue a career in international"