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Medium: Metal
Who Washes the Feet of Mary Magdalene. Sculpture made in Porcelain, hand-painted
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This piece recalls the art historical depictions of Mary Magdalene. Though she is often contextualized as the one who washed Jesus’s feet, Hodge centers her as the subject and asks “Who takes care of her?”. She answers with the scene of another woman washing her feet, which speaks to the ways that women’s care for one another is often unseen.
The three series that make up her thesis show all center around the woman as an art historical trope who becomes a contemporary archetype of tenderness and tenacity with her own narrative. The tradition of the woman as muse or object is questioned and turned upside down as she gives her women the position of subject, i.e., the position of power. The jars, which uphold pairs of women, are the ultimate overturn of male dominance as she removes and replaces all male characters from famous artworks with women...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Judaica Bronze Sculpture "Rabbi" Figure Jewish American Boston Figural Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Aronson, David 1923-
David Aronson, son of a rabbi, was born in Lithuania in 1923 and immigrated to America at the age of five. He settled in Boston, Massachusetts where he studied at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts under Karl Zerbe, a German painter well known in the early 1900s. Aronson later taught at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts for fourteen years and founded the School of Fine Art at Boston University where he is today a professor emeritus. An internationally renowned sculptor & painter, Aronson has won acclaim for his interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Talmud and Kabala. His best known works include bronze castings, encaustic paintings, and pastels. His work is included in many important public and private collections, and has been shown in several museum retrospectives around the country. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th century American artists.
At twenty-two David Aronson had his first one-man show at New York's Niveau Gallery. The next year, six of his Christological paintings were included in the Fourteen Americans exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art where Aronson’s work was included alongside abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell and Isamu Noguchi. In the 1950s, Aronson turned more toward his Jewish heritage for the inspiration for his art. Folklore as well as Kabalistic and other transcendental writings influenced his work greatly. The Golem (a legendary figure, brought to life by the Maharal of Prague out of clay to protect the Jewish community during times of persecution) and the Dybbuk (an evil spirit that lodges itself in the soul of a living person until exorcised) frequently appear in his work.
In the sixties, Aronson turned to sculpture. His work during this period is best exemplified by a magnificent 8’ x 4’ bronze door which now stands at the entrance to Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Foundation Conference Center for the Arts in Racine, Wisconsin. In the seventies and eighties, Aronson continued his work in pastel drawings, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring religion and the frailties of man's nature. During this time, in addition to a traveling retrospective exhibition and many one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston at the Pucker-Safrai Gallery on Newbury Street, Aronson won many awards and became a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. Two years ago he retired from teaching to work full-time in his studio in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
included in the catalog
Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art
Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974.
Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.
Selected Awards
1990, Certificate of Merit, National Academy of Design
1976, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Design
1976, Joseph Isidore Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
1976, Purchase Prize in Drawing, Albrecht Art Museum
1975, Isaac N. Maynard Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design
1973, Samuel F. B. Morse Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
1967, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Fine Arts
1967, Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design
1963, Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of Philadelphia
1961, 62, 63, Purchase Prize, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1960, John Siimon Guggenheim Fellowship
1958, Grant in Art, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1954, First Prize, Tupperware Annual Art Fund Award
1954, Grand Prize, Third Annual Boston Arts Festival
1953, Second Prize, Second Annual Boston Arts Festival
1952, Grand Prize, First Annual Boston Arts Festival
1946, Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
1946, Purchase Prize, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1944, First Popular Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art
1944, First Judge's Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art
Selected Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Bryn Mawr College
Brandeis University
Tupperware Museum, Orlando, Florida
DeCordova Museum
Museum of Modern Art Print Collection, New York
Atlanta University
Atlanta Art...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Two bronze busts of girls
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Two vintage bronze busts of girls by Vietnamese artist Nguyen Thanh Le. The bronze busts have a shiny black patina and are mounted on a wood plinth painted wi...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,045 Sale Price
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The forth Angel, Contemporary Angel, Angel Sculptor.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
"Sculptor Marsha Gertenbach signed and numbered this bronze sculpture, edition 2/25. Here is the artist's message about this unique piece:
IT IS MY STRONG BELIEF THAT GOD HAS GIVEN ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Flame, sculpture by Kerry Green, abstract, silver, black, indoor, outdoor, contem
By Kerry Green
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Flame, sculpture by Kerry Green, abstract, silver, black, indoor, outdoor
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fabricated aluminum, 3 part sculpture limited edition of 100
signed on bottom of base
Since childhood, Kerry Green has always been creative; painting, drawing, sculpting, and sewing. Her family provided her with materials and encouraged her efforts. She literally grew up in her parents’ art galleries, and with them toured the U.S.,
Europe, Mexico, Japan, and New Zealand, seeing museums and visiting artists’ studios. Growing up in Arizona and New Mexico gave her the opportunity to explore the Native reservations there where she has made life-long friendships. Several of her very early influences were Dr. Harry Wood...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Slave Trader, Orientalist Bronze Sculpture on wooden base by Franz Bergmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Franz Bergmann, Austrian (1861 -1936) - Slave Trader, Year: circa 1900, Medium: Bronze sculpture on wooden base, Size: 5.25 x 3 x 3 in. (13.34 x 7.62 x 7.62 cm), Description: "Re...
Category
Early 1900s Romantic Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sage Mano
By Frank Arnold
Located in Fresno, CA
Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative painters and sculptors of our time. He is a living master whose work is considered to be both personal a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$12,800
A walking girl. Contemporary bronze sculpture, Limited edition, Italian artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative patinated bronze sculpture by Italian artist Antonio Giancaterino. Sculpture shows a female figure during walking, pointing finger somewhere in font of her. S...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Patinated Bronze Sculpture of a Girl with Doll by Auguste Moreau
Located in New York, NY
LOUIS AUGUSTE MOREAU (French, 1834-1917)
Signed ‘auguste moreau’
19th Century
24 1/2 in. x 11 in. x 11 in.
Category
19th Century Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Giving Tree
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Hand-built ceramic, flashe, metallic foil, UV matte finish, 19.5" high x 10" wide x 5" deep.
Black, gold, red, blue.
COA available upon request
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Nude
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "1938-42 Morgan Russell" with monogram on base
cast circa 1982 with permission of the Estate of Morgan Russell
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Press - tall, steam-punk inspired, human face, lead, aluminum and iron sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This steam-punk inspired metal sculpture incorporates Dunning's mask motif in metal print typeface and a re-purposed cast iron squeeze jolt molding machine. This machine was used to press sand in a flask around a pattern for molds used by foundries. The powerful 6.5 foot tall indoor sculpture...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
'Danae, ' by ArmanH, Bronze Sculpture
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 20.47" x 9.44" x 10.62" bronze sculpture by Armenian artist, Arman Hambardzumyan, was created in 2013 and depicts the tragedy of the Greek goddess Danae. The artist's interpretation of this classical Greek myth, where an oracle foretold Danae would bear a son who would kill her father, and in an attempt to evade this, Acrisius, her father, imprisoned her. The king of Gods - Zeus, desired Danae and came to her in the form of golden rain. The oracle came true, Danae conceived a son, Perseus, who killed Acrisius by accident. The expressive love between Danae and Zeus is imitated by the naked body of a woman and a golden shower on her body.
"The image of a woman always inspires me in both physical and spiritual beauty. In this sculpture, I tried to express the image of a woman with her soul, which has no smell, taste and is not tangible. The contour of the beautiful shimmering body of a woman allows you to feel the presence of the female soul inside."--ArmanH
Arman is an Armenian artist represented in several major collections around the world including the Terra Garden in Kikinda (Serbia), Contemporary Hall of the National Museum of Fine Arts (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova), Boyajyan Center for the Arts (Prague, Czech Republic), and at private collections in Europe, Asia and in the USA.
This work was exhibited in 2015 in 2015 Myths, Folk Art Museum after Hovhannes Sharambeyan. Yerevan, Armenia. Exhibit coordinator: Armine Beglaryan; and at the Art Expo, New York, April 21-24, 2017, organized by Redwood Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$10,000 Sale Price
30% Off
DUCK
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Made with recycling metal items
by Dani Broglio artist from Granada Spain
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$1,196
Polychrome Bronze Sculpture Jazz Nightclub Singer Clarinet Player Bruno Luna
By Bruno Luna
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Bruno Luna (Mexican, b.1963)
Issued: 20th century
Dimensions: 7.5"L x 6"W x 12"H
Edition Number: 3 of 30
The sculpture portrays a whimsical female sultry cabaret musician engaged in playing either an soprano saxophone or a clarinet. It is meticulously crafted from bronze, with colors applied to accentuate its details. Signed Bruno Luna.
Bruno Luna was born in Mexico City in 1963. (his birth name was Norman Bardavid) Interested in art since his childhood, he completed a painting workshop with Professor Robin Bond, and then on to the Anahuac University of Mexico City to study Architecture and Graphic Design. He was an assistant to Marcelo Morandin, A renowned Mexican Sculptor. Over the years, his work evolved into a very distinct style, A style of voluptuousness influenced by Colombian master Fernando Botero (he calls them Gorditos) along with influences of Mexican tradition, and a cubist, almost Picasso esque treatment of the human figure. Bruno Luna's sculptures carry an undeniable air of joyousness, happiness and vitality. His work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in many public and private collections. Among those are the collections owned by Prince Rainier of Monaco, the American actor Chevy Chase, and many others. Bruno Luna's sculptures appeared on Mexican most popular syndicated network, Televisa, in a soap opera called "Mi Abuelo y Yo".
in 1986 he founded the 10/10 Gallery, promoting mainly artists from Mexico...
Category
20th Century Pop Art Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mooseconstrue 1/4 - contemporary, pop art, Canadian, aluminum sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The unmistakable silhouette of a moose—one of Canada’s iconic images is celebrated in this sculpture by Charlie Pachter. As a little boy, pop artist Pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Spring Plumage
By Kent Ullberg
Located in Loveland, CO
"Spring Plumage Study" by Kent Ullberg
14"high signed and numbered AP/30 Bronze heron in repose
This particular casting is available on the secondary market from an original purchaser. It is in excellent condition, sold as pictured. This artist's proof has been in the possession of another bronze artist who got the sculpture directly from Kent Ullberg. It has been very well cared for. The casting is heavier than most, appears to be a solid casting.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
A native of Sweden, Kent Ullberg is recognized as one of the world's foremost wildlife sculptors. He studied at the Swedish University College of Art in Stockholm and worked at museums in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Africa and Denver, CO. After living in Botswana, Africa, for seven years he has made his home permanently in the United States where he now lives on Padre Island, Corpus Christi, TX. He also maintains a studio in Loveland, CO.
Ullberg is a member of numerous art organizations and has been honored with many prestigious awards. In 1990 his peers elected him a Full Academician (NA), thus making him the first wildlife artist since John James Audubon to receive one of the greatest tributes in American art. A selection of his memberships include the National Sculpture Society; the American Society of Marine Art; the Allied Artists of America; Nature in Art, Sandhurst, UK; the National Academy of Western Art in Oklahoma City, OK which awarded him the Prix de West, the foremost recognition in Western Art. In 2010 he received the Briscoe Legacy Award and in 2016 the lifetime achievement award from the Society of Animal Artists.
Best known for his monumental works executed for museums and municipalities across the globe, his Fort Lauderdale, FL, and his Omaha, NE installations are the largest bronze wildlife compositions ever done, spanning several city blocks. Both earned him the coveted Henry Hering...
Category
1990s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
RAIDERS REIGN (Original And One Of A Kind Wall/Floor/Shelve Sculpture)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
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"RAIDERS REIGN" is one of a kind steel Raiders' logo assembled on green wood panel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$2,800 Sale Price
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The Foundry Worker
Located in San Francisco, CA
This sculpture "The Foundry Worker" c.1925 is a bronze sculpture by German artist Albert Caasmann, 1886-1968. The signature is impressed in the bronze. The subject size is 11.15 x 8.15 x 3.15 inches, including marble base, the size is 13.15 x 8.15 x 5 inches. It is in excellent condition.
about the artist:
Albert Caasmann (2 June 1886 – 23 March 1968) was a German sculptor and porcelain artist. Caasmann designed toy figures for the Berlin toy company Lineol and from 1919 to 1952 was the lead designer and production manager for the company. He designed figurines for the porcelain companies Rosenthal AG and Volkstedt. Caasmann's work for the company Rosenthal are exhibited in the Porzellanikon's Rosenthal Museum. Lineol toy figures modeled by Caasmann are in the Historical Toy Museum in Freinsheim and the Toy museum in Havelland.
Albert Caasmann was born on 2 June 1886 in Berlin, Germany. From 1909 to 1919, he worked as a freelancer for the Berlin toy company Lineol, founded by Oskar Wiederholz in 1906. After service as a soldier in the First World War, he became the leading designer and production manager of Lineol from 1919 to 1952. He designed over 600 figures for Lineol, including soldiers, animals, Indians, knights, fairy figures, and railroad figures. His toy figures were widely used in the region by children. Lineol ceased operations in 1965, and in 1985 the company Lineol Duscha has the trademark rights to Lineol. Lineol Duscha reproduces Lineol figures modeled before 1945. Lineol toy figures modeled by Caasmann are in the Historical Toy Museum in Freinsheim and the Toy museum in Havelland.
Caasmann spent time in the Berlin Zoo, where he modeled his animal models. He made a model for a porcelain cheetah...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Transcendance, Atelier, Platinum
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
As with Richard MacDonald’s Cirque series, "Transcendance, Atelier, Platinum" reveals layers of metaphor and meaning that challenge and intrigue. This platinum patina sculpture captu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Platinum, Bronze
Olga
Located in London, GB
This one of a Ltd edition of 25 sculptures by the artist.
Joan Artigas Planas was born in 1960 in Vilassar de Dalt, Barcelona.
In 1985 he graduated in Fine Arts at the University o...
Category
2010s Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Woman with Book by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative sculpture.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Woman with Book is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bailarines, Modern Bronze Sculpture by Jose Almanzor
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bailarines
Jose Almanzor, Mexican (1962–2015)
Date: circa 1990
Bronze Sculpture
Size: 67 x 50 x 10 in. (170.18 x 127 x 25.4 cm)
Category
1990s Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled, City Wolves - Stand Series, Contemporary Photography - Painting Object
Located in Salzburg, AT
Magdalena Peszkowska born in 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland. Studied in Department of Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1999-2004). Diploma with special recognition in painting in 2004.
The character of Magdalena Peszkowska's works is like an poetic archive of memories, which call for a classification and reconstruction of the time of childhood and the intense experience of time with everything around it. Gdansk - where the artist comes from - becomes a mythical place, This city, with a very strong symbolic potential inherent in its history, needs editing from a single point of view. Magdalena Peszkowska uses her own photos or those from the family album. She transfers them to gray field blankets and camp beds with her own secret technology Then she paints on the used objects. Many of her objects show figures from the closest circle of Peszkowska, often it is herself, her family or places close to her in Gdansk. Her objects have intentional signs of use.
The field blankets have a sewn-in wooden bar to hang them on the wall.
The field military beds...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Diana and the Coursing Cheetah, Atelier
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Diana, goddess of the hunt, has served as a wellspring of inspiration for artists over centuries. However, MacDonald's interpretation truly encapsulates Diana's enduring power and be...
Category
20th Century Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled, Girl Portrait - Contemporary Photography - Painting Object
Located in Salzburg, AT
Magdalena Peszkowska born in 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland. Studied in Department of Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1999-2004). Diploma with special recognition in painting in 2004.
The character of Magdalena Peszkowska's works Series Stand is like an poetic archive of memories, which call for a classification and reconstruction of the time of childhood and the intense experience of time with everything around it. Gdansk - where the artist comes from - becomes a mythical place, This city, with a very strong symbolic potential inherent in its history, needs editing from a single point of view. Magdalena Peszkowska uses her own photos or those from the family album. She transfers them to gray field blankets and camp beds with her own secret technology Then she paints on the used objects. Many of her objects show figures from the closest circle of Peszkowska, often it is herself, her family or places close to her in Gdansk. Her objects have intentional signs of use.
The field blankets have a sewn-in wooden bar to hang them on the wall.
The field military beds...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Untitled, Football Field With Poplars - Photography - Painting Object
Located in Salzburg, AT
Magdalena Peszkowska born in 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland. Studied in Department of Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1999-2004). Diploma with special recognition in painting in 2004.
The character of Magdalena Peszkowska's works Series Stand is like an poetic archive of memories, which call for a classification and reconstruction of the time of childhood and the intense experience of time with everything around it. Gdansk - where the artist comes from - becomes a mythical place, This city, with a very strong symbolic potential inherent in its history, needs editing from a single point of view. Magdalena Peszkowska uses her own photos or those from the family album. She transfers them to gray field blankets and camp beds with her own secret technology Then she paints on the used objects. Many of her objects show figures from the closest circle of Peszkowska, often it is herself, her family or places close to her in Gdansk. Her objects have intentional signs of use.
The field blankets have a sewn-in wooden bar to hang them on the wall.
The field military beds...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Slumber, Rodger Jacobsen bronze sculpture skinny man sleeping bed with big head
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Slumber, Rodger Jacobsen bronze sculpture skinny man sleeping bed with a big head
Slumber, small bronze sculpture skinny man sleeping bed with a big head...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cord
Located in Chicago, IL
Edition of 12
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$20,000
Joel Urruty - Embrace black and white, Sculpture 2024
By Joel Urruty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium: oak, bleached and dye, concrete
As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Guardian Angel Box
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a unique bronze container.
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from li...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Gemini, Bronze Horse Sculpture by Jean Richardson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jean Richardson, American (1940 - )
Title: Gemini
Year: 1989
Medium: Bronze Sculpture
Edition: 10
Size: 18 x 19 x 12 in. (45.72 x 48.26 x 30.48 cm)
Base: 3 x 12 x 12 inches
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
SENTINEL
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Phillip Shore's artwork is informed and influenced by his travels to and the study of the archeological artifacts from Ancient Greece and the relationship between humans and the env...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Iron
Baby Condor, Folk Art Bronze Sculpture by Victor Delfin
Located in Long Island City, NY
A bronze sculpture by Victor Delfin circa 1970. A whimsical, abstracted bird figure in a blissful pose with wings spread.
Artist: Victor Delfin, Peruvian (1927 - )
Title: Baby ...
Category
1970s Folk Art Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sydney Kumalo Bronze Minimalist African Modernist Sculpture Figural Female Nude
Located in Surfside, FL
Sydney Kumalo. Features a bronze stylized female figural form sculpture fixed to a marble plinth and wood base. Bears signature on base. Measures 9 1/2" x 4 1/4". There is no edition number on the piece.
Sydney Kumalo (1935 - 1988) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, on 13 April 1935. His was one of the families who had to move out of the "white" city to the South Western Townships, or Soweto. Raised in Diepkloof and educated at Madibane High School, he took with him from old Sophiatown the curious and diverse heritage of its heyday. Art classes in the Catholic school, "Sof' town" blues and jazz, the vibrant street culture and growing defiance of its population of various races who were gradually forced out into separate race-group areas. So it was that these various aspects of his early life created for Kumalo a cultural mix of a Zulu family related to the traditional royal house; city schooling, nascent township music and lingo; growing urbanised political defiance and the deep-rooted Zulu pride and respect for the legends and ancient stories of a tribal people. This mix of old and new cultures was reinforced when he began his studies at the Polly Street Art Centre in 1953 where he became a member of Cecil Skotnes group of serious artists who were encouraged to acquire professional skills. Skotnes introduced a basic training programme with modelling as a component, which marked the introduction of sculpting (in brick-clay) at Polly Street.
Kumalo was Skotnes’ assistant at Polly Street from 1957 to 1964, and having recognised his great talent as a sculptor, Skotnes encouraged him to become a professional artist.
After Kumalo’s very successful assistance with a commission to decorate the St Peter Claver church at Seeisoville near Kroonstad, with painting designs, sculpture and relief panels in 1957, Skotnes arranged for Kumalo to continue his art training by working in Edoardo Villa ’s studio from 1958 to 1960. Working with Villa, he received professional guidance and began to familiarize himself with the technical aspects of sculpting and bronze casting. In 1960 he became an instructor at the Polly Street Art Centre.
Kumalo started exhibiting his work with some of the leading commercial Johannesburg galleries in 1958, and had his first solo exhibition with the Egon Guenther Gallery in 1962. He was a leader of the generation who managed to leave behind the forms of African curios, reject the European-held paternalism which encouraged notions of "naive" and "tribal" African art, and yet still hold fast to the core of the old legends and spiritual values of his people. He introduced these subjects into his bronze sculptures and pastel drawings, evolving his own expressive, contemporary African "style".
Together with Skotnes, Villa, Cecily Sash and Giuseppe Cattaneo, Kumalo became part of the Amadlozi group in 1963. This was a group of artists promoted by the African art collector and gallery director Egon Guenther, and characterised by their exploration of an African idiom in their art. Elza Miles writes that Cecil Skotnes’ friendship with Egon Guenther had a seminal influence on the aspirant artists of Polly Street: “Guenther broadened their experience by introducing them to German Expressionism as well as the sculptural traditions of West and Central Africa. He familiarised them with the work of Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz, Gustav Seitz, Willi Baumeister and Rudolf Sharf.” It is therefore not surprising that some of Kumalo’s sculptures show an affinity with Barlach’s powerful expressionist works. Guenther organised for the Amadlozi group to hold exhibitions around Italy, in Rome, Venice, Milan and Florence, in both 1963 and 1964.
Kumalo’s career took off in the mid 1960s, with his regular participation in exhibitions in Johannesburg, London, New York and Europe. He also represented South Africa at the Venice Biennale in 1966, and in 1967 participated in the São Paulo Biennale.
EJ De Jager (1992) describes Kumalo’s sculpture as retaining much of the “canon and formal aesthetic qualities of classical African sculpture. His work contains the same monumentality and simplicity of form.” His main medium for modelling was terra cotta, which was then cast in bronze, always paying careful attention to the finish of both the model as well as the final cast. He began casting the pieces he modelled in clay or plaster into bronze at the Renzo Vignali Artistic Foundry in Pretoria North. He worked throughout his life with its owners, the Gamberini family, and enjoyed learning the technical aspects of the casting process, refining his surfaces according to what he learned would produce the best results in metal. De Jager further writes that Kumalo’s distinctive texturing of the bronze or terra cotta is reminiscent of traditional carving techniques of various African cultures. “In many respects Kumalo thus innovated a genuine contemporary or modern indigenous South African sculpture”. Kumalo came to admire the works of the Cubists, and of British sculptors Henry Moore and Lynn Chadwick. He became noted for adapting shapes from them into his own figures. The success of his use of the then current monumental simplicity and purely aesthetic abstractions of natural forms has been emulated by many South African sculptors since the 1970s.
He was in many ways the doyen of South African Black art. As such he was an important influence especially on younger African sculptors, by whom he is greatly revered. Through his teaching at Polly Street and at the Jubilee Centre, as well as through his personal example of integrity, dedication and ability, he inspired and guided students who in their own right became outstanding artists, for example, Ezrom Legae, Leonard Matsoso and Louis Maqhubela
From 1969 onward, he allied himself with Linda Givon, founder of The Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, where he exhibited regularly until his death in December 1988. Working with Givon also perpetuated his associations with his many friends of strong principles. Skotnes, Villa, Legae and later such peers from the Polly Street era as Leonard Matsoso, Durant Sihlali and David Koloane have all exhibited at The Goodman Gallery. Kumalo, Legae, and later Fikile (Magadlela) and Dumile (Feni) were among the leading exponents of a new Afrocentric art...
Category
20th Century Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Beauty of Nature, Bronze Sculpture by Volodymyr Mykytenko, 2007
Located in Zofingen, AG
Volodymyr Mykytenko - Beauty of nature (2007)
Beauty is in everything that surrounds us. My sculpture is filled with the abundance of nature and its beauties. Idyll in this composit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ambivalence 1/4 - figurative, male, animal, narrative, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Ambivalence is cast in bronze, and in an edition of 4. The figure stands in his underwear, one rubber boot on, one off, a beaver dangling from his hand.
Nicholas Crombach (b.1989, K...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hans Schork "The Sower" Patinated Bronze
Located in Astoria, NY
Hans Schork (Austrian, b.1849) "The Sower" Patinated Bronze Sculpture, late 19th century, after the model by Louis-Oscar Roty (French, 1846-1911), the stan...
Category
Late 19th Century Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tangled - silver, abstract human face, stainless steel and cable wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A continuous strand of slender, silver aircraft cable is threaded through polished squares of stainless steel to create an ethereal mask. The compelling work by Dale Dunning is powde...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel, Metal
My Bedside Books - bronze mural contemporary small figurative sculpture
By Mireia Serra
Located in New York, NY
Mireia Serra's little figurative bronze sculptures capture feelings and sensations of day to day lives. She transforms everyday dilemmas into something beautiful that captures the be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze, Iron
The green Tree, Bronze Sculpture by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Tushar Kanti Das Roy
The green Tree
Bronze
Hight- 34 inch, length- 24 inch, Depth- 14 inch
About the Artist & his work :
Born : 1968.
Education : He has completed his education from...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Limited Edition 2/3 Yellow Powder Coated Mild Steel Sculpture "Apart"
By Uwe Pfaff
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A medium sized, powder coated mild steel sculpture on a steel footing. Edition 2/3. Available in different colours or finishes on request.
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Ballerina on a baroque chair
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sculpture from the Ballet series. The series is dedicated to classical ballet and includes over 30 sculptures. This sculpture depicts a dancer tying p...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
#1 Bird, Hand-Welded Bronze, Copper and Iron Sculpture by Delfin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Victor Delfin, Peruvian (1927 - )
Title: #1 Bird
Year: 1978
Medium: Hand-Welded Bronze, Copper and Iron Sculpture
Size: 45 in. x 71 in. (114.3 cm x 180.34 cm)
Category
1970s Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Copper, Iron
Vasily- 21st Century Sculpture of a ballet dancer sitting and tidying her shoe
By Romee Kanis
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This sculpture is made by Dutch Artist Romee Kanis.
The North Holland sculptor Romee Kanis prefers to make her bronze sculptures 'after life'. Her statue...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Patrol 14/35
By Sandy Graves
Located in Napa, CA
Born in Colorado and raised in Nebraska, Sandy Graves first forayed into the art world by presenting work as a child and 4-H member at local county fairs. As she continued her educat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Judaica Expressionist Sculpture Russian Jewish Shtetl Goose Peddler
Located in Surfside, FL
A cast bronze sculpture depicting an elderly jewish peddler carrying a basket of geese going to the shtetl market. Signed on base. This is not editioned...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Arco II - Bronze Figure Poised Shooting an Arrow, Verdigris Patina, Steel Base
Located in Chicago, IL
Jesús Curiá Perez
Arco II, ed. 3/8
iron and bronze
26h x 17.75w x 7.75d in
116.84h x 45.09w x 17.14d cm
JCP055
It is seemingly easier to identify with the ideas and thoughts of an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Ugo La Pietra Bronze Abstract Sculpture Bellezza Al Bagno
Located in Brescia, IT
This is one of the 30 pieces of this engaging artwork realized in bronze by the well known Internationally artist, Ugo La Pietra, in 1985.
This artwork well represents the relationsh...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Coty Award
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Created C. 1943, award presented in 1965 to Gertrude Seperack for her design work in the fashion induustry.
The bronze portion measures 14 x 8.5 inches.
The Coty American Fashion Cri...
Category
1940s Art Deco Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Forest Fairy, Bronze Sculpture by Volodymyr Mykytenko, 2001
Located in Zofingen, AG
Volodymyr Mykytenko - Forest Fairy (2001)
In any forest in the world you can meet the Forest Fairy. She is the patroness not only of the forest, but of all nature in general, of eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Amancio.34 pool. gold and black bronze. iron.LA PRIMERA PIEDRA sculpture
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Sculpture by the Spanish artist AMANCIO GONZALEZ
7 COPIES
Fantastic piece of art representing Spanish sculpture
Amancio González is a sculptor from Leon and an internationally celebr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Satyr and Baby - Sculpture by Aurelio Mistruzzi - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Satyr and Baby is a bronze statue created by the artist Aurelio Mistruzzi.
Minotaur with child on his shoulders.
Edition of the late 1900s.
Engraved signature on the marble base....
Category
1980s Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,393 Sale Price
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Shark Hammer - Limited Edition of 12, 5\12
Located in Zofingen, AG
Original fish sculpture by the Ukrainian sculptor Volodymyr Mykytenko.
5/12 edition.
Excellent condition.
Materials: Bronze.
Please contact us if you have any questions about this...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Spring Song
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Spring Song, Edition AP 1/5, signed.
Nobe's art is highly integrated, deeply sensitive, and provocative of thought in a manner seldom reached by the multi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$4,500
Bust / Head No. 2 2014 (with Yoga Block and Dumbell)
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
Contemporary bust / sculpture: created from wax, wire mesh, dumbell and yoga block, by American artist John Goodman, whose work has been deeply inf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Wire
Bronze Architectural Model Sculpture Tempio Bretton Architecture Maquette
Located in Surfside, FL
TEMPIO BRETTON: from the catalogue MONUMENTA, 19th International Sculpture Biennale, Antwerp, Belgium.
Tempio Bretton was created in homage to the celebrated English landscapist Capability Brown for the occasion of an exhibition at Bretton Hall in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park , a park in the style of the great master of English garden design. The inclusion in the English garden of a temple ruin, or "eye-catcher," (architectural folly) was used to draw the eye and mind to a focus in time and space, present the beholder with an immediate relationship to an historic past made new within his or her own surroundings, and create a depth of space never before seen in garden design.
I took the idea of the temple ruin eye-catcher and reduced it to a scale at the point where architecture and sculpture merged. Tempio Bretton is not capacious enough to walk into, yet it is considerably larger than a man.
One view of it presents a knot of golden columns clustered together, topped by a dome shape. The only clue from this side to the temple's non-conformity to historic principle is a sharp notch cut into the square base.
Viewed from the opposite side, the cluster of columns capped by an angular top opens up as if to welcome someone in, yet the mysterious core is still impenetrable. These contradictions articulate a confrontation between past and present, and an exciting truth. The past is always at the heart of our constructions in the present.
Walter Dusenbery (born September 21, 1939 in Alameda, California) is an American sculptor. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute, earned an MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts, and then studied in Japan and Italy under Isamu Noguchi. He also held teaching positions at Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Design. From 1971 to 1988, he lived both in Pietrasanta,Italy, and in Little Italy, New York City. Dusenbery's preferred material is stone, particularly travertine or granite. Dusenbery has a particular interest in adding sculpture to public places, such as federal buildings, to humanize the space, but in 1988, he assembled a show of small, entirely hand-carved alabaster sculptures, called "Walter Dusenbery, The Personal Side," at the Fendrick Gallery in Washington, D.C.. In 1977, Dusenbery created Pedogna, on permanent loan from The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin.
That same year, 1988, he was awarded a large commission for the Fulton County Building Atrium in Atlanta, Georgia. The commission was for three fountains and related structures over three stories in height, designed for informal and ceremonial public events, Limestone, marble, granite and travertine fountains, pavilions, seating and meeting areas, performance and concert platforms, staircases and planters for hanging gardens. After completion of the "Atlantacropolis," Dusenbery withdrew from the gallery world and focused his energy on site-specific commissions. (like the landscape works of Maya Lin and Beverly Pepper) Seeking a large-scale stone studio for projects closer to home, he discovered there were none. In 1995, he approached sculptor and patron of sculpture J. Seward Johnson Jr. with the idea of creating a state-of-the-art stone-carving studio, so that American sculptors would not have to travel abroad to realize their work. Johnson agreed to fund such a facility, if Dusenbery would direct it. In 1996, Dusenbery designed the facility for the Stone Division at Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, and was its first director. The facility was situated in "a building resembling an airplane hangar," The studio offered the ability to digitally scan three-dimensional forms. The Stone Division was a success and attracted a strong group of sculptors: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Lawrence Argent, Barry X Ball...
Category
20th Century American Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ram - Frans Van Straaten, 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Animal Sculpture
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Frans van Straaten (1963) should be called an artist of balance always searching for harmony between force and movement in combination with space. B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled, Landscape With Clouds - Contemporary Photography - Painting Object
Located in Salzburg, AT
Magdalena Peszkowska born in 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland. Studied in Department of Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1999-2004). Diploma with special recognition in painting in 2004.
The character of Magdalena Peszkowska's works Series Stand is like an poetic archive of memories, which call for a classification and reconstruction of the time of childhood and the intense experience of time with everything around it. Gdansk - where the artist comes from - becomes a mythical place, This city, with a very strong symbolic potential inherent in its history, needs editing from a single point of view. Magdalena Peszkowska uses her own photos or those from the family album. She transfers them to gray field blankets and camp beds with her own secret technology Then she paints on the used objects. Many of her objects show figures from the closest circle of Peszkowska, often it is herself, her family or places close to her in Gdansk. Her objects have intentional signs of use.
The field blankets have a sewn-in wooden bar to hang them on the wall.
The field military beds...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Green Turtle Flask (Porcelain, Hand-made, Unique, Original, Gift Idea)
By Brandon Schnur
Located in Kansas City, MO
Brandon Schnur
Green Turtle Flask
Materials : Porcelain, Cork, Steel
Dimensions : 7.5 x 5 x 2 inches
Functional 10oz Flask, Slipcast and Handbuilt Cone 10 porcelain, Oxide and Slip d...
Category
2010s Pop Art Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
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