Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 7

John Kearney
Welded Chicago Gun Sculpture

1983

About the Item

In this welded steel sculpture in bronze by sculptor John Kearney, the artist sculpts a textural, clenching fist holding a fire arm. The fire arm is bent by the strength from this clenching fist. Signed and dated on the marble base. Kearney was represented in Chicago, New York, the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown and in Wellfleet, His work is fashioned from chrome car bumpers, not the current plastic variety, but chrome plated steel, and welded into great and seemingly alive creatures; a little horse about to leap, a pig, large and strong, and, noble and kingly as it looks over the gallery, a life-size gorilla. Now 78 years old, John and his wife Lynn founded the Contemporary Art Workshop 53 years ago in Chicago and have contributed through his art to the life and style of the Windy City. Chicago and environs is gifted with many pieces, noteably the city's Oz Park, wherein live the Tin Man and the bronze Cowardly Lion. his work is in the collections of Chicago's Museum of Contemporaray Art, the Detroit Children's Museum, the Chrysler Art Museum in Virginia, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, to name a few. His work is in the private collections of Norman Mailer, Diane Feinstein, Johnny Carson, Françoise Gilot, Studs Terkel, and Mrs. Robert Motherwell. Profiled by People magazine, a guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and written of by Norman Mailer, Kearney studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and Universita per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy. Awards and honors include: Fulbright Award to Italy in 1963-64; Italian Government Grant in 1963-64; Visiting Artist American Academy in Rome, 1985, 1992, and 1998; Wallace Truman Prize, National Academy of Design in 1953 and others. brass and marble Numerous One Man exhibitions since 1951 include: New York City at A.C.A. Gallery, 1964 to 1979; Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1992 to 1997; and in Rome, Venice, Chicago, Detroit, Wichita, Wellfleet, and others with group exhibitions in Rome, N.Y., Santo Domingo, Niamey, Nigeria, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Art Institute of Chicago, Art Chicago, Taipei, Sarasota and others. Art gallery; Detroit, Mich. Founded in 1963 by Lester and Kathleen Arwin. Specialized in contemporary art. Closed in 1981. Arwin Galleries records, 1948-1981 Artists' files, 1948-1981 contain correspondence, photographs, art work, printed material, writings and business records on 86 artists, including Harold Altman, Irving Berg, Harry Bertoia, William Bostick,Irma Cavat,Lila Copeland, Joseph Demariais, Jan De Ruth, Dick Van Dyk, Ray Elman, Kosso Eloul,Richard Florsheim, Max Ginsburg, Max Kahn, Charles Kaiman, Herbert Kallem, Deborah Kashdan, Ed Kasprowicz, John Kearney, Barbara Keidan, Richard Kozlow, Harry Mintz, Albert Noyer, Ben Shahn, Don Snyder, Joan Snyder, Sol Wilson, Adja Yunkers, and David Zelman. Subject files, 1963-1981, are on galleries, cities, styles of art, organizations and other topics. Correspondence consists of Lester Arwin's personal correspondence, 1959-1980, and business correspondence, 1958-1981. Art works include greeting cards, paintings, sketches and prints. Three reels of motion picture film are of the 1963 gallery fire. Photographs and slides are of Lester and Kathleen Arwin, their family and friends, gallery installations and openings, art works by Irma Cavat, John Kearney and others, and portraits of artists, including Ben Shahn and Richard Kozlow. Printed material, 1956-1980, consists of clippings, exhibition announcements and a sample book of prints CE CARACATURE
  • Creator:
    John Kearney (1924, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1983
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 13.5 in (34.29 cm)Width: 12.75 in (32.39 cm)Depth: 6.25 in (15.88 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 9521stDibs: LU3822410423
More From This SellerView All
  • Weight Lifter Chinese Contemporary Art Bronze Sclupture
    By Yaohui Wu
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Chinese Contemporary art sculpture. Weight lifter, body builder with bar bell. Yaohui Wu was born on November 2, 1964 in China. Passionate about paintin...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

    Materials

    Marble, Bronze

  • Large Salvador Dali Surrealist Bronze Portrait Sculpture Mexican Master Aguilar
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Carlos Aguilar y Linares, Mexican Sculptor (1945-2010) Sculpture chose him. In his hands and his soul he always had the necessary impulse to create wi...
    Category

    20th Century Surrealist Figurative Sculptures

    Materials

    Marble, Bronze

  • Heavy Bronze Sculpture Austrian Israeli judaica Jewish Couple Bench Nicky Imber
    By Nicky Imber
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Large and heavy with magnificent patina. This is the large version of this piece. we cannot find any markings on it and it might be unique. Nicky Imber (Vienna, Austria, 1920 -1996) was a multidisciplinary Jewish artist best known for his sculptures on Jewish themes. Grand nephew of Naftali Herz Imber, author of the Israeli national anthem 'Hatikva'. After escaping the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, he pledged to dedicate his art to perpetuating the memory of the Holocaust. Among his more famous works are "The Hope" and "The Love of Torah". His work can be seen around the world, in Northern Israel, the United States, and the Venezuelan Museum of Natural History in Caracas. Nicky Imber was born in Vienna, Austria. During his studies at the Academy of Arts in Vienna, he drew anti-Nazi caricatures for Jewish student publications. After several thwarted attempts by the family to leave Vienna, in 1938, in the wake of the 'Anschluss', Imber was deported to Dachau. Witnessing the murders of family and friends, he plotted his escape. Using skills he had learned in art school, he made a face mask out of bread and sand, stole a Nazi soldier's uniform and walked out the front gate unnoticed. In 1940, he boarded a ship...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Sculptures

    Materials

    Marble, Bronze

  • Bronze Abstract Space Age Book Sculpture LA California Modernist Charna Rickey
    By Charna Rickey
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Charna Rickey 1923 - 2000 Mexican-American Jewish Woman artist. Signed Bronze House of Books, Architecture Bronze sculpture, signed Charna Rickey and on the front "House of the book." It depicts an open Torah. Original patina. Approx. dimensions: 7 in. H x 9 in. W x 8.5 in. D. Weight: 13.1 lbs. Modernist Judaica Sculpture Born Charna Barsky (Charna Ysabel or Isabel Rickey Barsky) in Chihuahua, Mexico, the future artist lived in Hermosillo and immigrated to Los Angeles when she was 11. She was educated at UCLA and Cal State L.A., she married furniture retailer David Rickey and explored art while raising their three daughters. Moving through phases in terra cotta, bronze, marble and aluminum, she found success later in life. Rickey became one of the original art teachers at Everywoman's Village, a pioneering learning center for women established by three housewives in Van Nuys in 1963. She also taught sculpture at the University of Judaism from 1965 to 1981. As Rickey became more successful, her sculptures were exhibited in such venues as Artspace Gallery in Woodland Hills and the Courtyard of Century Plaza Towers as part of a 1989 Sculpture Walk produced by the Los Angeles Arts Council. Her sculptures have also found their way into the private collections of such celebrities as Sharon Stone. Another of Rickey's international creations originally stood at Santa Monica College. In 1985, her 12-foot-high musical sculpture shaped like the Hebrew letter "shin" was moved to the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The free standing architectural Judaic aluminum work has strings that vibrate in the wind to produce sounds. Rickey also created art pieces for the city of Brea. They commissioned some amazing art pieces by Laddie John Dill, Walter Dusenbery, Woods Davy, Rod Kagan, Pol Bury, Niki de Saint Phalle, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Larry Bell, John Okulick...
    Category

    20th Century American Modern Abstract Sculptures

    Materials

    Marble, Bronze

  • Bronze Modern Sculpture, The Family, Dancing, French German Artist Gerard Koch
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Untitled (Man, Woman and Child Dancing) bronze on marble plinth base. signed and numbered Gerard Koch was a French Post War & Contemporary sculptor who was born in 1926. Gérard K...
    Category

    20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

    Materials

    Marble, Bronze

  • Kinetic Bronze Expressionist Sculpture Skier or Surfer Modernist Sporting Figure
    Located in Surfside, FL
    Vintage stylized figural sculpture by J James Akston (1898-1983 Poland/New York/Florida) Crafted of cast bronze with a rich dark brown patina. A sports figure, depicting a snow skiing or water surfing figure in a Mid Century Modern Brutalist style. Segmented torso with movable parts. Mounted to a variegated green marble base. Signed with artist signature on edge of ski or surf board. Bronze statue measures 13" x 10 1/2" Overall height with marble base 19 inches. (it is either a surfboard or a snowboard) Joseph James Akston was a Polish American sculptor, painter, known for surrealist abstract painting and Aubusson (for Les Ateliers Pinton Frères, tapisserie d'aubusson) tapestry artist. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898 he died in Palm Beach Florida in 1983. During the 1960s and '70s the entrepreneur-artist James Joseph Akston adopted a unique Surreal Expressionist style in order to present his private primordial universe and lampoon its denizens, a ribald cast of animal creatures with human foibles. A successful industrialist, he began his career with General Motors foreign operations and then started his own business. Intermittently he studied painting, first with Jerry Farnsworth...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

    Materials

    Marble, Bronze

You May Also Like
  • Aquila- 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Realistic Sculpture of a Nude Boy
    By Wim van der Kant
    Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
    Aquila Bronze Sculpture on pedestal of marble Hight bronze 57 cm with pedestal of marble (included) 68 cm Wim van der Kant's sculptures are in bronze...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Nude Sculptures

    Materials

    Marble, Bronze

  • Homage to Botero - Bull Sculpture
    By Fernando Botero
    Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
    After Fernando Botero Bull Sculpture with Huichol glass beads Stamped F. BOTERO 1992, Numbered.
    Category

    20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

    Materials

    Marble, Bronze

  • Aquila Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Marble Stone Contemporary In Stock
    By Wim van der Kant
    Located in Utrecht, NL
    Aquila Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Marble Stone Contemporary In Stock - Sculpture without Stone is 57 cm high Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught a...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures

    Materials

    Marble, Bronze

  • Tuemini Ergo Sum Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone In Stock
    By Wim van der Kant
    Located in Utrecht, NL
    Tuemini Ergo Sum Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone - In Stock - Height Sculpture without Stone pedestal: 78 cm Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artis...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures

    Materials

    Marble, Bronze

  • Insilit Bronze Marble Stone Nude Contemporary Sculpture Boy Jumping In Stock
    By Wim van der Kant
    Located in Utrecht, NL
    Insilit Bronze Marble Stone Nude Contemporary Sculpture Boy Jumping In Stock - Sizes of sculpture, without Stone pedestal : 40 x 32 x 22 cm Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a sel...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures

    Materials

    Marble, Bronze

  • Luctatio Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
    By Wim van der Kant
    Located in Utrecht, NL
    Luctatio Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his busy profession as a teacher ...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures

    Materials

    Marble, Bronze

Recently Viewed

View All