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Brutalist Hand Forged Iron Mosaic Sculpture Menorah Israeli David Palombo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand Forged Iron Stone Mosaic Hanukah Menorah Candelabra
David Palombo was an Israeli sculptor and painter. He was born in Turkey to a traditional family and immigrated to the Land of Israel with his parents in 1923. They lived in the Nahalat Shiva neighborhood of Jerusalem. In 1940 he began his studies at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and from 1942 was a student of sculptor Ze’ev Ben-Zvi. For a period of time, Palombo was an assistant at Ben-Zvi’s studio and also taught at Bezalel. During this period he was also a member of the “Histadrut HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed” (The General Federation of Students and Young Workers in Israel). In the 1940s he took art lessons at night. In 1948 he went to Paris, where he visited the studio of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi whose work influenced him. Around 1958 he married the artist Shulamit Sirota. In 1960 he quit his job to devote himself to art. In 1964 he married for the second time to the artist Yona Palombo. The two of them went to live in an abandoned home on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. In 1966 he was killed when the motorcycle on which he was riding ran into a chain stretched across the street to prevent the desecration of Shabbat. His widow opened a museum in their home that was active until the year 2000.
Work by Palombo is included in the Judaic collection of the Jewish Museum (a well known Hanukkah menora). Palombo executed the impressive metal gates of the Tent of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem, the memorial to the martyrs of the holocaust, as well as the gates to the Knesset Building the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco award) awarded him a scholarship for study in Japan. He worked in marble, granite, bronze, iron and steel. as well as with glass mosaic tiles. Palombo’s early works, in the 1950s, were influenced by modernist sculptors such as Brancusi. These works were composed of abstract images from nature and were carved out of stone or wood. At the end of the 1950s he began making metal sculptors, using the technique of welding. His work took on a more abstract and expressive character.
Education
1940 Painting with Isidor Ascheim, New Bezalel School for Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem
1942 Sculpture with Zeev Ben Zvi, Jerusalem
1956 Mosaic, Ravenna, Italy
1958 Welding Course
Awards And Prizes
1966 UNESCO Award
Exhibitions:
Sculpture in Israel, 1948-1958 Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
Artists: Zvi Aldouby, Yitzhak Danziger, Arieh Merzer, Dov Feigin, Aaron Priver, David Palumbo, Menashe Kadishman, Kosso Eloul, Yehiel Shemi, Zahara Schatz.
The Spring Exhibition of Jerusalem Artists, Artists' House, Jerusalem
Artists: Palombo, David Bezalel Schatz, Mordechai Levanon, Fima, Ludwig Blum
12 Artists, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
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Modernist Hand Forged Iron Mosaic Sculpture Animal Ram Israeli David Palombo
Located in Surfside, FL
Heavy Hand Forged Brutalist Iron Ram or Goat Sculpture
David Palombo was an Israeli sculptor and painter. He was born in Turkey to a traditional family and immigrated to the Land of Israel with his parents in 1923. They lived in the Nahalat Shiva neighborhood of Jerusalem. In 1940 he began his studies at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and from 1942 was a student of sculptor Ze’ev Ben-Zvi. For a period of time, Palombo was an assistant at Ben-Zvi’s studio and also taught at Bezalel. During this period he was also a member of the “Histadrut HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed” (The General Federation of Students and Young Workers in Israel). In the 1940s he took art lessons at night. In 1948 he went to Paris, where he visited the studio of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi whose work influenced him. Around 1958 he married the artist Shulamit Sirota. In 1960 he quit his job to devote himself to art. In 1964 he married for the second time to the artist Yona Palombo. The two of them went to live in an abandoned home on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. In 1966 he was killed when the motorcycle on which he was riding ran into a chain stretched across the street to prevent the desecration of Shabbat. His widow opened a museum in their home that was active until the year 2000.
Work by Palombo is included in the Judaic collection of the Jewish Museum (a well known Hanukkah menora). Palombo executed the impressive metal gates of the Tent of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem, the memorial to the martyrs of the holocaust, as well as the gates to the Knesset Building the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco award) awarded him a scholarship for study in Japan. He worked in marble, granite, bronze, iron and steel. as well as with glass mosaic tiles. Palombo’s early works, in the 1950s, were influenced by modernist sculptors such as Brancusi. These works were composed of abstract images from nature and were carved out of stone or wood. At the end of the 1950s he began making metal sculptors, using the technique of welding. His work took on a more abstract and expressive character.
Education
1940 Painting with Isidor Ascheim, New Bezalel School for Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem
1942 Sculpture with Zeev Ben Zvi, Jerusalem
1956 Mosaic, Ravenna, Italy
1958 Welding Course
Awards And Prizes
1966 UNESCO Award
Exhibitions:
Sculpture in Israel, 1948-1958 Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
Artists: Zvi Aldouby, Yitzhak Danziger, Arieh Merzer, Dov Feigin, Aaron Priver, David Palumbo, Menashe Kadishman, Kosso Eloul, Yehiel Shemi, Zahara Schatz.
The Spring Exhibition of Jerusalem Artists, Artists' House, Jerusalem
Artists: Palombo, David Bezalel Schatz, Mordechai Levanon, Fima, Ludwig Blum
12 Artists, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
Avraham Ofek, Aviva Uri, Avigdor Arikha, Yosl Bergner, Lea Nikel, Palombo, Ruth Zarfati,
General Exhibition, Art in Israel 1960 Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Artists: Naftali Bezem, Nachum Gutman, Shraga Weil, Shraga, Marcel Janco, Ruth Schloss
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Because I Am, Mosaic Glass Sculpture, 2021
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Artist Commentary:
Worked with a model for the initial photoshoot. While perusing through the images I had just taken I selected this particular one and said to the model "you look v...
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"Ghost (Waiting for Friends), " Mixed Media Mosaic, 2022
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Clas...
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Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This model stated during the photo shoot that ever since elementary school she has felt a strong connection to the earth and that as an adult has embraced the iden...
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Model, designed and executed for Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy
Sculpture, designed for Electra Film Productions, NYC
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Store Windows, executed Tiffany & Company Windows, New York City, Christmas 1957, 1959, 1962, October 1969, Spring 1979, and October 1980
Wall Sculptures: for Youngstown Research Center (1963-4), commissioned by Youngstown Steel Company, Youngstown, Ohio; for Hecht and Company, Landmark Shopping Center, Alexandria, Virginia, Daniel Schwartzman, Architect; for Lobby, 570 Seventh Avenue, New York City, Giorgio Cavaglieri, Architect; for Lobby, Cities Service Company's New Research Center, Cranbury, New Jersey; for Ottauquechee Health Center, Woodstock, Vermont
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1979: Designed and executed Jewelry for the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Designed and executed limited edition of Mazuzas for Brandeis University-National Women's Committee, New York City
1980: Bronze Cross commissioned for St. James Episcopal Church, Woodstock, Vermont
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1987: Loan Installation, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1988: Eleven foot outdoor Sculpture for Front Plaza, River Court, Charles River, East Cambridge, Massachusetts, H. J. Davis Development Corp.; Tomie dePaola, Outdoor Sculpture of Bird, New London, New Hampshire
1989: Room Screen, 51/2 feet, Rita Moreno, Los Angeles, California; Martha Graham Award for presentation to her in Boston, Massachusetts
1990: Fireplace Screen, Sharon Mills, Chattanooga, Tennessee
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1957: "The Patron Church", Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York City
1958: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; The Jewish Museum, New York City
1959: Detroit Institute of Arts; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1962: National Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
1963: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Newport Art Association, Newport, Rhode Island
1964: "West Side Artists", Riverside Museum, New York City; "The Crafts and Worship", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1966: "Recent Acquisitions", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Byron Gallery, New York City
1967: Byron Gallery, New York City; Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont; University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
1968: New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut; "Exhibit of Encaustic Drawings", Kanegis Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1969: Graham Gallery, New York City
1970: "Birds and Beasts", Graham Gallery, New York City
1971: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1972: Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; SUNY, Plattsburgh, New York
1973: Fairleigh Dickinson University, William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Sculpture in Tiffany & Co. Windows, New York City
1974: DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Library Art Center, Newport, New Hampshire
1975: "New England Women", DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; "Animal Sculpture", New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut; "From Vermont: Past to Present", Gallery 641, Washington, D.C.; Art Association of Newport, Rhode Island; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
1976: The 41st International Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Montshire Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire
1977: Group Show sponsored by Artists Equity, Union Carbide Building, New York City; Institute for the Arts of the Archdiocese of Washington, Gallery Kormendy, Alexandria, Virginia; Contemporary Arts Gallery, Loeb Student Center, New York University, New York City
1979: "Judaica II" sponsored by the YM-YWHA of Metropolitan New Jersey, West Orange, New Jersey; Special Exhibition of Sculpture, Tiffany and Company, New York City; The Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, Vermont; Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont; Visual Artists' Coalition, Connecticut College for Women
1980: One man shows: New York University, Contemporary Arts Gallery, Washington Square Park, New York City; St. Gaudens Museum, Cornish, New Hampshire; Tiffany and Company Windows, New York City; Group Show: "The Figure", sponsored by Pratt Institute
1983: One Man Shows: Howard Monroe Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Alwin Gallery, London; Group shows: "Regional Selections", Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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1984: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont
1985: DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (Best in Show Award)
1986: The Women's Museum, Washington, D.C. (Sculpture acquired for permanent collection)
1987: Tiffany's Windows, Tiffany and Co., New York City
1988: One Man Show: Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont
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By Salvador Teran
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wonderful and unusual handmade mosaic tiled tray highlighted by brass insets in a brass tray showing a Mayan warrior profile by SALVADOR TERAN, c.195...
Category
1950s Modern Mosaic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Sampler I
By Isaiah Zagar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Sampler I" is an original mosaic by Isaiah Zagar measuring 29in x 17in. This piece ships in the pictured wooden frame.
Isaiah Zagar is an award-winning mosaic mural artist whose...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mosaic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Mirror, Mixed Media, Mosaic
Pegasus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Pegasus"
Mosaic Tiles, Signed
Artist not identified
American, c.194o
25.5 x 17.75 Inches
Category
1940s Art Deco Mosaic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mosaic
Cubist Portrait
By Walter D. Blair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Walter D. Blair
20th Century
Mosaic
Signed and dated 1958
11.5 x 14 Inches
Walter D. Blair
2oth Century
Blair was a New York City painter. He was a member of the Muni...
Category
1950s Mosaic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mosaic
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