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Anita Huffington
Cloud

$36,000
£26,992.69
€31,294.03
CA$50,239.90
A$56,113.37
CHF 29,158.21
MX$683,348
NOK 370,374.48
SEK 348,999.51
DKK 233,491.46
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The alabaster of "Cloud," upon which this bronze is based, is in the collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Anita Huffington's work is also included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Morris Museum in Augusta, Georgia; the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock; and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Anita Huffington's history includes a long period in New York City starting in the late fifties when she studied dance with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. Huffington became acquainted with a circle of artists of the New York School, including Kline and de Kooning, as well as a diverse and individualistic group of painters, sculptors, musicians, and poets in this vital and idealistic period. These experiences, and her later choice to live in the woods of the Arkansas Ozarks, sowed the seeds for the sculpture she makes in stone, bronze, wood, and mixed media. Her work reflects both the world of art and the spirit of her life in the woods. Anita Huffington states: "I do direct carving in stone and make bronzes, often using the stone as part of the process. My sculpture is usually based on the human form, primarily the female nude. I often carve torsos or fragments of the body, believing that the part can be as expressive as the whole. The sculptures are in a sense totem objects that celebrate our ordinary every day life. Their function, as in prehistoric or primitive sculpture, is to reveal and revere -- to make magic. We can see in nature an organic energy and essential beauty, a power that has the force of a religious experience: an illumination, an intuitive flash wherein we glimpse our original nature. In my sculpture, through reduction and simplicity of form, balance and tension, and interaction with the material, I seek this revelation." Anita Huffington has been awarded the Jimmy Ernst Award in Art by the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York; a La Napoule Art Foundation Residency in France; the Governor's Individual Artist Award (2005) in Arkansas; and an Arkansas Arts Council fellowship recognizing artistic accomplishment. A monograph with superb photographs by David Finn was published in 2007.
  • Creator:
    Anita Huffington (1934, American)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)Depth: 11 in (27.94 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Dallas, TX
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 167331stDibs: LU257142858

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