Archive | Sculpture

One of the three bears

I just love this picture. The lady was a well known American, the first American lady to setup an Art Museum. “The Whitney Museum Of American Art” The Museum was founded in 1931 with a core group of 700 art objects, many of them from the personal collection of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney herself. She was […]

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Carl Eldh Sculptor from Sweden

I have just found another sculptor of note from the Northern reaches of Europe. It is so satisfying to finding a new Sculptor. It matters not that the rest of the world know all about him and I am as usual late on the scene! I am indebted to these two websites for the following […]

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Mackennal in New South Wales

In case you missed the pdf of Mackennal here is an example of what it contains. Particularly good work here, shows especially well what a rock can contain! Find it here or visit and send us some even better pictures please! http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/

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Australia

When I first visited Chris’ Millers Figure Sculpture site more than a year ago, I noticed that there was no mention of Australia and New Zealand which worried me. I spent some time trying to find some examples to offer him but failed to fine anything suitable on the internet and so had to accept […]

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Slavery

I came across Power’s “Greek Slave”, above, through a search for “Parian Ware” a medium in which I have recently completed a commission. (see http://iath.virginia.edu/utc/sentimnt/grslvhp.html for a brief history) Slavery and the history of slavery are not subjects I know a lot about, but it is a subject that crops up quite often in “browsing” […]

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Lady Painters and Sculptors

This is in response to Chris Millers’ post on Sally Farnham, one of the many talented Lady Sculptors of America. Some time ago I was given a book about the paintings and sculpture collected by King Charles I of England, a subject that brought me to thinking about female artists and sculptors over the centuries […]

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