Art by Medium: Copper

In 1972, the women’s movement was in full flower. Suzanne Benton had been an early activist, a founder and organizer of NOW Chapters, CT Feminists in the Arts, Women, Metamorphosis 1 (in New Haven, CT, the first women’s art festival in the USA). She'd already been creating metal sculpted masks and working with them in mask tale performances of Women of Myth and Heritage. Her inaugural performance of Sarah and Hagar n 1972 took place at Lincoln Center in NYC. Benton then became the artistic director and producer of an evening on Broadway, Four Chosen Women (performers included herself as mask tale performer, author Anais Nin, actress Vinie Burroughs and dancer Joan Stone). The evening took place at the Edison Theatre, November 22, 1972. While developing the evening on Broadway, Benton met renowned Swedish actress and Hollywood star, Viveca Lindfors. Viveca was then working on her solo performance, I AM A WOMAN, and was looking for a unique theatre set for the show. The happenstance that brought Viveca and Suzanne together. At that same time, recent travel to Macchu Picchu inspired her with the mountain’s great stones sitting on the edge of precipices. These vast stones led her to create welded steel Seated Sculpture Works. Viveca was intrigued by the concept and let her own imagination fly. Imagining a set of welded steel sculpture, she took the leap in commissioning Suzanne with complete faith in artist's ability to fulfill her mandate. Benton created groups of welded sculptures for two theater sets. Protection is one of three sculptures in first set created in 1973. Mother and Child, Pelvic Woman, Facing Each Other are three of five works from the 1974 second set. The first toured with her shows throughout the East Coast and into Toronto, Canada. The second set, created to nest together could travel as checked baggage for international and domestic airline travel. They flew to Denmark in 1980 for her performance at the UN sponsored 1980 Women’s International Conference, Copenhagen. In addition to creating the theatre sets, Benton mounted exhibitions of her masks and sculptures in the lobbies of theatres where she performed (NYC and Northampton). Continuing on with this theme, Becoming is her 1975 Seated Sculpture Work. The theatre sets were returned at the final end of its long run. These Seated Sculpture Works have often been featured in exhibitions, including both the 2003 and 2005 retrospectives. They are part of an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks. What attracted her to welded sculpture? This excerpt from her book, The Art of Welded Sculpture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975 speaks of its lure: "Early in my life, when I had decided to become an artist, I had had an inner vision of being able to hold the physical material of my art in such a way as to bring it into existence with my hands. In welding, I wear a mask, a heavy apron, and gloves. I heat the metal and make it bend so smoothly and gracefully; I cut the metal, rigid metal, into endless shapes; I join the pieces by causing them to flow together with the heat of the flame. Welding was a return to my adolescent vision. It was fulfillment. At that beginning time I felt that even if I went no further, this experience in itself gave me astounding satisfaction. It was as thrilling as the moment of birth. It was my birth." (Pelvic Woman and Protection are illustrated in the book): What began in 1965 became by 2017 an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks. The magic of the welding mask...

Robin Hextrum's "Unfolding Petals on Copper" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a white Peony flower opening and blossoming with its green le...

Taylor Tynes' "White Petunias" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts blooming white Petunia flowers growing with their green vines from a dark background.

The Candle symbolizes that hope is always present. The Candle is an experimental paintings . It leaves a lot of the copper exposed, trying to see how much atmosphere can be created ...

The Warm Wave

Liopai Constellation, 2020

Artist's proof of hand copper application and aging techniques by Patricia Pearce (American, b. 1948). Unsigned, but was acquired with other Patricia Pearce pieces. Presented in a ne...

Dina Brodsky has begun another chapter in her visual journal, documenting her newfound home on the New England coast. Her pinhole representations of the Massachusetts Cape pack virtu...

Ancient woman is a modern artwork realized by Artist of the early 20th Century. Copper plate engraved. Includes frame: 50 x 37 cm Engraved signature on lower margin.

Divyendu Anand - Morning Healing Edition of 9, Hand Paint & Patinated Copper Skin over Stone Composite Granite H 29.5 x W 12 x D 10 inches, 2025 Growing up with the thoughts of altr...

Bardol Thodol literally means liberation through hearing and comes from The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Bardo is the transitional state between death & rebirth. Lovers of jazz and music in general will be all too aware of how one can be transported to this suspended state when listening to music. This state is expressed beautifully in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and here we quote directly from it "remember the clear light, the pure clear white light...............Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge with it. It is your own true nature". Jazz Bardo, Heavens Gate...

Lofty mid century tree sculpture crafted in copper twisted into form and mounted on an organic stone base.

J.B. Thompson "Photon" Mixed Media Etching w/ Copper and Aquatint Limited Edition J.B. Thompson (American, 1932-1984) Fantastic pencil signed and numbered mixed media etching with ...

The Girl from Togo Bronze Artist Proof MEAM in Barcelona Spain Figurative This life size bronze bust is the artist proof of "The Girl from Togo." It was personally crafted b...

Very occasionally a painting invites deep study; nothing exists within it without reason, each form has purpose, every shade has nuance, every line has meaning. Berlin has presented...

17th-century Flemish oil-on-copper painting depicting a foreshortened landscape with figures, a genre scene with a multitude of crowded characters in a street with classical architec...

Bent Copper Wire Wall Sculpture Unsigned, from the artist collection. Walter Bastianetto is an Italian born sculptor who moved to Mexico in the 1970s and resided there. Well-known ...

Constructed out of copper wire, densely woven, looks good mounted on a wall as well as sitting or hanging.

Alexander James Hamilton 
Transparency of a Dream [2.0-II], 2019 
Unique chromogenic photograph on copper with hand-varnish craquelure 
Signed by the a...

Same style different execution. Italian copper leaf and fluorescent thread sewn on Splendorlux Black Gloss

A mixed media sculpture by James Johnson from 2002. A pregnant female figure of epoxy resin with copper wings and a simian face. Artist: James Johnson Title: Monkey Girl 2 Year...

Gail Taylor (20th century, American) “Liquid Amber. Wonderful golds with the warmth of reds and greens in the copper sheet. A single leaf captured in th...

In the manner of Julio Gonzalez, mixed metal sculpture. Neo-Dada Abstract Sculpture: Assemblages Abstract sculpture followed a slightly different course. Rather than focusing on non-figurative subject matter, it concentrated on materials, hence the emergence of Assemblage Art - a form of three-dimensional visual art made from everyday objects, said to be 'found' by the artist (objets trouves). Popular in the 1950s and 1960s in America, assemblage effectively bridged the gap between collage and sculpture, while its use of non-art materials - a feature of Neo-Dada art - anticipated the use of mass-produced objects in Pop-Art. Assemblage sculpture is exemplified by the works of Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), such as Mirror Image 1 (1969, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), and by Jean Dubuffet (1901-85) and his Monument with Standing Beast (1960, James R. Thompson Center, Chicago). The idiom was considerably boosted by an important exhibition - "The Art of Assemblage" - at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, in 1961. Other examples of the Neo-Dadaist-style "junk art...

Vendedor de pájaros - Bird seller Made with natural clay, copper wire and polychrome painting. Hand-modeled technique and cooked in an oven. LISTING =================================== 1 Ceramic Sculpture of a Bird seller =================================== DETAILS =================================== Time of Preparation: 2.5 months Made: Izuca de Matamoros, Puebla, México. Dimensions: 8" x 10" x 5" in or 20 x 25 x 13 cm Artisan: Taller Alfonso Castillo Orta...

Aleksandra Domanović Calf Bearer 2017 Sculpture constructed of Laser sintered PA plastic, polyurethane, Soft-Touch, patinated copper and Kevlar-carbon fiber coating, Corian and foam....

Wonderful abstract on reclaimed copper by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957), circa 2010. Signed on verso. Condition: Good; copper is reclaimed so has some minor disto...

Portrait of young Garibaldi is mixed colored painting realized by Anonymous artist of the XIX century. Oil on copper. Rare portrait of a young Garibaldi. Includes frame 39 x 3 x 29.

RAFAEL ATENCIA (Córdoba, España, 1954). Romería del Rocío. Óleo sobre cobre. Firmado en el ángulo inferior derecho. Medidas: 22 x 41.5 cm.; 51 x 71 cm. (marco). Precioso óleo sobre ...

Divyendu Anand - Soaring High Oxidised Bronze over Stone Composite Granite Base, Edition of 9 H 27 x W 13 x D 6 inches, 2025 Growing up with the thoughts of altruism, idealism and b...

"Sounds of the Sea Vol. III" is painted on re-purposed drop cloth, embellished with black fringe and hung on custom brass hardware. Becca Fuhrman says of her work... My work aims t...

Artist: Unknown Medium: Hand-Hammered and Welded Copper and Wood Construction Size: 89 in. x 19 in. x 2 in. (226.06 cm x 48.26 cm x 5.08 cm)

Pair of 19th C Continental Oil Paintings on Copper After Bartolome Esteban Murillo "The Little Fruit Seller" After Gerrit Dou "Kitchen Maid at the Window" 6.5" x 8" 9.5" 10.5"

"It’s okay to be a little superstitious." "Seashell Eyes" is painted on re-purposed drop cloth and hung on custom brass hardware. Becca Fuhrman says of her work... My work aims to...

Helen Weber Large wall hanging wood and metal sculptural relief in a tropical Hawaiian or Polynesian motif with tropical flowers. "Art belongs everywhere from cruise ships to churches" This has been the mantra of Helen Webber since she began her career in the 1970’s creating hundreds of art works for public spaces throughout the United states and abroad. It was her strongly held belief that art can touch the spirit of many more people than those whose art experiences are limited to the halls and walls of museums and galleries. Her bold and richly hued art works executed in a wide variety of media, such as tapestry, glass, metal wood and clay have been installed in universities, corporations, medical facilities, cruise ships, hotels, religious spaces, community and civic centers and even in a train station. Over the years many architects and interior designers have collaborated with Helen Webber finding that her work enhanced their designed environments, giving her the opportunity to create art for well known corporations as well as multitudes of residences. It is the tapestries that she is best known for, and it is this medium that dominates the largest body of her work, which was first introduced to the design world in the mid 1970's. The tapestries utilize a fabric collage technique combining an array of designer upholstery fabrics such as velvets, brocades, worsteds, jacquards, mohair, hand woven woolens, among many others. Yarns of all kinds are integrated into the tapestries surrounding the edges of each fabric piece. Some clients, who saw that Webber’s particular art style could be expressed in a variety of media, offered her commissions in stained and etched glass, wood collage, sculpted tile...

Alexander James Hamilton
 Transparency of a Dream [2.0-X], 2019
 Unique Chromogenic photograph on copper with craquelure hand-varnish
 20 x 20 cm (framed)

"Hot heat and filtered light coming through, under the bleachers up to no good." Becca Fuhrman says of her work... My work aims to express the small moments that make up a life; qu...

This painting has been the subject of a study by the art historian Fabrizio Dassie (available on request), confirming its inclusion in Jan van Bunnik’s corpus. In this painting, Ja...

Copper repousse hand hammered iconic image, Judaica, Israeli art.Shlomo Goren (Hebrew: שלמה גורן; February 3, 1917 – October 29, 1994), was a Polish-born Israeli Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi and Talmudic scholar who was considered a foremost authority on Jewish law (Halakha). Goren founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces...

Copper and wood box. "Americordo #7" is composed of copper tiles inlaid to the bottom half of the box and on the top rests a patinated etched copper or bronze circle. The box when closed measures to be 17" Sq. x 3.5" H. David Barr (1939-2015) is an American sculptor and painter from Detroit, MI. Known for constructivist sculpture, architecture and surrealist, assemblage box sculpture collage works. Born in 1939, Barr is an internationally known artists and has created many installations in natural settings. Vault took over a year to complete. His sculptures represent mathematics, geography and structurist nature, and otherwise known as "geo-structures." This one is kinetic and can be moved around. Barr is a graduate of Wayne State University and recipient of the WSU Distinguished Alumni Award. Influenced by sculptor Charles Biederman. In 1995 he founded the Michigan Legacy Art Park, and has pieces at the Chrysler World Headquarters, Flint's Bishop Airport, the Detroit Zoo, the State of Michigan Historical Museum and the Meadowbrook Festival Grounds Barr earned a master’s of fine arts degree from Wayne State University and was an associate professor of sculpture at Macomb Community College in Warren for 37 years. He worked on perhaps the largest sculpture in the world, the Four Corners Project, with installations at Greenland, Africa, Irian Jaya (New Guinea) and Easter Island. His sculptures are located all over the state of Michigan, but perhaps his most recognizable is Transcending, a blend of bronze, steel and granite that acknowledges the contributions of Detroit’s laborers and skilled tradespeople. David Barr is the founder of Michigan Legacy Art Park. David’s career as an artist, instructor, author and global thinker has crossed borders around the world, bringing people and ideas together. Over fifty years as a sculptor, David created a body of work that includes hundreds of wall-hanging structurist reliefs, sculptures for public spaces (such as Transcending in Hart Plaza, Detroit done with Sergio De Giusti), works for private collections, massive global projects (such as The Four Corners Project) and Michigan Legacy Art Park. David’s studio was in Detroit for fifteen years until he realized he needed nature as a source of inspiration. In 1977 he bought 4 acres of land in rural Oakland County (now Novi) and in 1979 built his home, a contemporary structure that has become the centerpiece of his own art park. His work is included in the collection of outdoor sculptures at The Dennos Museum Center along with Clement Meadmore, Hanna Stiebel...

Materials: Orogolite, canvas, oil, craquelure, nautilus shell, polymer clay, natural leather, parchment leather, bambek, decorative cord, copper, bronze casting / wenge-colored ash f...

Alexander James Hamilton Transparency of a Dream [2.0-IX], 2019 Unique Chromogenic photograph on copper with craquelure hand-varnish
 20 x 20 cm (frame...

Daniela Cutait studied fine arts at FAAP in the early 1990s and has always been curious, creative, communicative and restless. The artist orbited through the universe of stones, jewe...

Dina Brodsky has begun another chapter in her visual journal, documenting her newfound home on the New England coast. Her pinhole representations of the Massachusetts Cape pack virtu...

Christian Schildbach was a very talented artist with his own style. Art painter in Plauen, then court painter in Dresden; around 1706 art painter in Vienna, also active in Bamberg (...

Katie Edwards Best Mates Original Silkscreen print with hand painted layers Mounted Size: H 40.5cm x W 50.8cm Free Shipping Please note that in situ images are purely an indication o...

Lot & His Daughters, 17th Century after PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640) Large 17th century Dutch Old Master depiction of Lot And His Daughter, oil on copper. Excellent quality and co...

Geometrically shaped copper sculpture. The piece is the tone of shiny bright copper and has circular and triangular shapes to the work. It is not signed. Artist Biography: Matthew ...

"At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites" is a large-scaled textured mixed-media painting that explores the connection between the ancient and the celestial. Created with acrylic, late...

Inscription by the artist in permanent marker on verso: "MI CORAZON QUE LATE, KOZO + AMATE/MIXTA, PAPELHECHO A MANO., 68 X 70 CM., T OLABUENAGA, -1990-"

How To Eat An Elephant is an original etching by Will Taylor. It explores animal images and mathematics, including the integral of volumes. Each impression is marked on the reverse w...

Dina Brodsky has begun another chapter in her visual journal, documenting her newfound home on the New England coast. Her pinhole representations of the Massachusetts Cape pack virtu...

Arieh Merzer was a prominent Israeli artist and metal worker. Arie Merzer, an artist who worked in hand-hammered copper, was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1905, the scion of a large Has...

Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist painter. Known for her miniaturist style, her highly detailed depictions of urban interiors, natural environments, and unsuspecting human and animal subjects are evocative of renaissance portraiture and landscape. Brodsky often paints on small circular surfaces, forcing viewers to move closer to the work. She was drawn to miniature painting from her study of Islamic miniature art and medieval illuminated manuscripts...

Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist painter. Known for her miniaturist style, her highly detailed depictions of urban interiors, natural environments, and unsuspecting human and animal subjects are evocative of renaissance portraiture and landscape. Brodsky often paints on small circular surfaces, forcing viewers to move closer to the work. She was drawn to miniature painting from her study of Islamic miniature art and medieval illuminated manuscripts...

An original conceptual sculpture by Kevin Kegler. This work is currently featured in the artist's solo exhibition inside The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry.

Cast bronze, copper with patina on marble base. "I work primarily from the solitary, standing female form as a representation of the life giving, nurturing and creative force of Nat...

"Copper Green" by Joel Perlman Abstract metal sculpture in copper Joel Perlman has been creating complex sculptures out of steel, bronze, and aluminum since the early 1970's. While ...

"To my mother" is the main graphic work of the artist Sidonie Springer. The portfolio consists of 10 images drawn by the artist in charcoal and partially tinted in color, which come ...

Blossom Copper Mosaic 36.0 x 36.0 x 1.5, 23.0 lbs Copper, mixed media Hand signed by the artist Artist's Commentary: "Vibrant hues radiate from this copper mosaic, whose delicate ...

Direction blue - black. 2006, glass, copper, author technique 18x56x50 cm