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Period: 20th Century
"American Marriage" Painted Bronze Outsider Assemblage Sculpture Signed Marmol
Located in Surfside, FL
Jose Marmol
"An American Marriage"
Hand signed and dated
Painted bronze
Provenance: Allan Stone Gallery, New York.
It came with an inlaid art deco box also signed Marmol. I cannot find any conclusive biography of the artist.
Allan Stone (1932–2006) was a legendary American art dealer, collector, and leading authority on Abstract Expressionism. In 1960, he founded the Allan Stone Gallery where he became renowned for his early advocacy of preeminent 20th-century artists. He championed artists such as John Chamberlain, Joseph Cornell, Willem de Kooning, Richard Estes, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Eva Hesse, Franz Kline, Yasuhide Kobashi, Wayne Thiebaud, and Jack Whitten. He was also known for his zealous and eclectic approach to art collecting, amassing a collection that spanned painting, sculpture, assemblage, collage, folk art, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, furniture, mechanical parts, signs, and bugatti cars. At the time of his death, he had the largest collection of African and Oceanic art in private hands. His clientele included Robert Mallary, John Chamberlain, and Elaine de Kooning, During the gallery's first decade Stone showed established luminaries such as Willem de Kooning, César, Franz Kline, John Chamberlain, Barnett Newman, and Alfred Leslie. He gave first or early shows to Arman, Robert Arneson, Richard Estes, Dorothy Grebenak,Eva Hesse, Robert Ryman, Wayne Thiebaud, and Jack Whitten.
The Allan Stone Gallery was one of the few that would see artists and their work without an appointment—a vital lifeline for the inexperienced and unconnected. It was also unconventional in its frequent showings of unknown woman artists and artists of color, such as Eva Hesse, Gerald Jackson, Jack Whitten, Elizabeth King, Sue Miller, Sylvia Lark, Kazuko Inoue, Diana Moore, Oliver Lee Jackson, Mary Lovelace O'Neal and Lorraine...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Morning Coffee
Located in Greenwich, CT
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cowboy Bronco Rider
By Allan Houser
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Allan Houser (Haozous), Chiricahua Apache 1914-1994 recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1992. Allan Houser's father Sam, was part of the small band of Apaches who traveled wit...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Richard Shiloh Bronze Sculpture Seated Male Dancer
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Well done bronze by Polish/Israeli artist Richard Shiloh (1946-2012).
Title: Dancer on the Bar. Created circa: 1970's - 1980's.
Measures: 13 1/2"h x 7"w. Edition size 5 of 8.
The work is in excellent condition with no damage.
The signature, edition size and foundry mark are seen on the base.
Richard Shiloh is an internationally recognized Israeli figural...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Stepper II
By Judith Stewart
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
In the bronze "Stepper II," a young woman steps forward both deliberately and with caution, entering life as she is still creating herself, gathering strength and assurance. The pain...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
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
Other Art Style 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,520 Sale Price
20% Off
Biomorphic Sculpture Woman With Child Signed PJ edition 8/12
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Woman With Child
Woman hugging a child, bronze with dark brown/black patina about 20 inches hight 11" width and 8 depth. Signed with initials PJ edition 8/12.
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Italy 1980 Annamaria Gelmi Metal Painted Red Sculpture Piccolo Eden
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the Italian artist Annamaria Gelmi.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certifica...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Lying Body by Sergio Monari 1985 Figurative Sculpture Patinated Bronze Cast
Located in Brescia, IT
Bronze artwork made with lost wax casting technique. This is the prototype, unique signed artist proof.
Sergio Monari is an Italian sculpture, that liv...
Category
Post-Minimalist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hungarian Israeli Tourists Diorama Folk Art Doll Judaica Sculpture Magda Watts
Located in Surfside, FL
Magda Watts (Israeli, b. 1928)
Handmade Folk Art Sculpture
Old Folks with a newspaper
Hand signed to underside,
Dimensions: 12"h x 14.5" l x 7.5"d.
Mag...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Mixed Media
Rust Angel Italy 1980 Post-Modern Abstract Sculpture Bruno Chersicla
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known artist Bruno Chersicla.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certif...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Pablo Picasso, Service Poisson (Ramié, 26), Original Ceramic, signed, 1947
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso
Service Poisson (Ramié, 26), 1947
White earthenware ceramic plate, with coloured
9 2/5 in diameter 24 cm diameter
Edition of 300
Category
Cubist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Abstract Female Form, Large Bronze Sculpture
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ellen Brenner-Sorensen
Title: Untitled II
Year: 1992
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and number inscribed
Edition: 3/9
Size: 34 in. x 16 in. ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Allan Houser Marble Sculpture - Two Figures
By Allan Houser
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Wonderful sculpture of two figures by Native American artist Allan Houser (1914-1994).
The work is in excellent condition and measures 19 1/2"h x 12"w x 9"deep.
His signature is seen...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Abduction of Europe 1, Bronze Sculpture by Volodymyr Mykytenko, 1996
Located in Zofingen, AG
Volodymyr Mykytenko - Abduction of Europe 1 (1996)
The love story in mythology is always interesting and mysterious. The theme of love in my work always inspires me. Love is always ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Broche pomme-bouche
Located in PARIS, FR
EDITION
Signed and monogrammed.
Edition Arthus Bertrand, Paris
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Walking Man
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Maxine Kim Stussy, a prolific sculptor and painter from the late 1940’s to present. Maxine led an incredibly artistic life traveling the world with h...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kwa-Giulth Thunderbird
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Kwa-Giulth, Thundrbird" 1987 is a wood carving bas-relief by Canadian artist Kevin Cranmer, b.1968 It is signed, titled and dated in...
Category
Tribal 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Arman Sliced Bronze Sculpture Orgueil Masculin Heracles and Saxophone
By Arman
Located in Paris, FR
In 1987, Arman began his Transculptures series, created by combining sections of several objects on top of each other. This magnificent example from 1988 bears witness to Arman's uni...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1982 Argentine Metal Sculpture "Serie De Los Sobres" Maria Simon
Located in Surfside, FL
María Simón
Argentinian (1922-2009)
Untitled (from Serie de los Sobres)
1982
welded and enameled black sheetmetal sculpture
Escultura en metal, moldeado, soldado, esmaltado
18 1/4 x 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches
Provenance:
The Graciela Kartofel Collection
María Simón Padrós (1922 – 5 July 2009) was an Argentine sculptor.
Simón was born in Aguilares, Tucumán in 1922. Her father, John Simon Padrós, was an engineer, a prominent politician and industrialist; her mother was Emilia Dublé. Today she is represented in the collections of the Museo Moderno and the Museo de Bellas Artes, where one of her sculptures is on display until the end of July, along with others by Noemí Gerstein...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mid Century Carved Figurative Girl and Kitten
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century carved marble figurative girl and kitten by Rodney Marshall Winfield (American, b. 1925). Presented in rustic wood frame. Bio on verso. Image, 14"H x 10"W.
Rodney studied at Cooper Union School in New York and worked as a designer at the Emil Frei...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
Rare Milk Glass Carved Sculpture Panel Cowboy Indian WPA Artist Americana
By Abraham Harriton
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a carved glass panel. I belive this is milk glass. it is a classic Americana scene of a cowboy or frontier trapper and an Indian or Native American with a feathered headdress...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Steven Wolfe Original Bronze Bookends, Ed. 2/3
Located in New York, NY
Steven Wolfe (American, 1955-2016)
Untitled (Book Bookends), 1990
Bronze
6 1/4 x 7 x 4 inches
Stamped: SW 1990 2/3
For more than two decades, Steve Wolfe (1955–2016) created sculptures and drawings of astounding craft and visual presence. Wolfe re-created worn books and used records, primarily from the 1960s and 1970s, that influenced his own personal and artistic sensibilities. Working in the tradition of trompe l’oeil, Wolfe created pieces that quite literally “fool the eye” on first inspection. Using a variety of materials and processes, including oil, acrylic, screen printing, lithography, modeling paste, canvas, wood and aluminum, Wolfe sculpted and painted precise and exacting three-dimensional replicas of books and records that possess a personal significance. Iconic titles include Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground, Alfred Barr’s Cubism and Abstract Art and The Beatles’ Revolver...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Le grand Duc
Located in CANNES, FR
Jules Agard ( 1905 - 1986 )
" Le grand Duc "
sculpture en terre blanche de Salernes montée au tour représentant un hibou
Grand-duc .
Ses formes sont mises en valeur par des engobe...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Large Bronze Modernist Sculpture Acrobats 1/3 French German Artist Gerard Koch
Located in Surfside, FL
Untitled (it depicts acrobats, trapeze artists or gymnasts in mid pose)
bronze cast sculpture
signed and numbered from small edition (1 of 3).
Gerard Koch was a French Post War & C...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Guardian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Maxine Kim Stussy was a prolific sculptor and painter from the late 1940’s to present. Maxine led an incredibly artistic life traveling the world with her husband at the time, artist Jan Stussy, who headed the art department at UCLA for several decades. Both artists were close associates of Stanton MacDonald Wright, known as one of the greatest American modernist artists, also known as the co creator of the synchronistic movement in the teens with Marcel Duchamp.
Maxine was unrestricted by any singular medium; her sculptures took form in wood assemblage, concrete, bronze and unique nail assemblage. Large size seemed natural to her, and she often created figurative sculpture over 7 feet high. The gallery has represented the original sculpture of Maxine Kim Stussy for many years, and this is the first time we have presented any of her original works on 1st Dibs.
“The Guardian...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Eduardo Paolozzi: 'Triangular Construction' plaster sculpture
Located in London, GB
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Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Cord
Located in Chicago, IL
Edition of 12
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$20,000
Bust of a Woman - Sculpture by Emilio Greco - Mid-20th Century
By Emilio Greco
Located in Roma, IT
Bust of a woman is a sculpture made by Emilio Greco (1913-1955) in the second half of 20th century.
Woman with her hair up and a hint of a smile.
The bust is made of bronze with a...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A whimsical fish sits placidly in the center of Pablo Picasso ceramic Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate), 1947 A.R. 3. A sweeping blue back and a orange belly make up the...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Glaze
Riho Kuld, "Night Bird, " bronze sculpture
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a bronze sculpture created by Riho Kuld in 1990. Kuld was born in Estonia in 1936, his work is exhibited in the museums all over the world in c...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Holy Trinity
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this sculpture I have embodied the idea of the Holy trinity. According to the Bible, God in the form of three angels appeared to Abraham's wife and pre...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Large Judaica Copper Repousse Sculpture Relief Plaque Arie Merzer Bezalel Era
By Arieh Merzer
Located in Surfside, FL
Arieh Merzer (Israeli, 1905-1966)
Copper relief sculpture panel in gilt frame
Framed dimensions 18 X 26.25, copper 14.5 X 22.5
Arieh Merzer ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Copper
Bust of a Man, Bronze Sculpture by Chaim Gross
By Chaim Gross
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chaim Gross, Austrian/American (1904 - 1991)
Title: Bust of a Man
Year: 1967
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature inscribed
Size: 12.5 x 6.5 x 8.5 in. (31.75 x 16.51 x 21.59 c...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Southwest Scene, Pop Art Painted and Glazed Ceramic Sculpture by George Pearlman
By George L. Pearlman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George L. Pearlman, American (1960 - )
Year: 1988
Medium: Painted and Glazed Ceramic Wall Hanging in four parts, signed and dated verso
Size: 26 x 36 x 6 in. (66.04 x 91....
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Carnavale, Avant Garde Carricature Plaque, Paris
By Arieh Merzer
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Small head of the Man with the broken nose
Located in PARIS, FR
Petite tête de l'Homme au nez cassé
Small head of the Man with the broken nose
by Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)
Sketch for the Gates of Hell
Variant with symmetric neck
Bronze with blac...
Category
French School 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Figures and Sculptures, 3-D Wall Sculpture in Plexi Box by M. Mitchell
By M. Mitchell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: M. Mitchell, American
Title: Figures and Sculptures
Medium: Pencil, Acrylic and Collage with 3 Resin Sculptures, signed
Size: 80 in. x 35 in. x 12 in. (203.2 cm x 88.9 cm ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Pencil, Resin
Bronze Sculpture Relief Troubadour Figurative American Modernist David Aronson
Located in Surfside, FL
Guitar or Mandolin playing musician.
Music themed bronze sculpture
Signed and numbered
Aronson, David 1923-
David Aronson, son of a rabbi, was born in Lithuania in 1923 and immigra...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Leslie Hawk Sculptural Human Figure & Horse "Person on a Horse"
Located in Detroit, MI
"Person on a Horse" is a concrete, glass and steel structure with horse in mid-stride looking up and forward. The person astride leans forward as in encouragement to the stead or in weariness of the journey, perhaps both.
Leslie Hawk...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Steel
"Bird" Abstract Bronze Sculpture with Wooden Base
Located in Houston, TX
W. R. Stevenson's abstract bronze sculpture titled "Bird". The unique sculpture stands on a sleek wooden base and has a plaque that includes the artist and title.
Artist Biography: William Robert Stevenson was born in 20 May 1925 in Eugene, Oregon. His family moved to Minneapolis, MN but he promptly returned to Oregon and Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was sidetracked when he was drafted into the United States Army at age 17 years old in early 1942. Being a strong swimmer, and having worked at stables as a child, he initially served in the last US Cavalry Corps, and also as a Swimming Instructor for the United States Army. Upon the abolition of the Cavalry Corps, he was trained as a Gunnar and Tank Commander for the M-4 Sherman Tank under General Patton...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kneeling Nude
By Bernard Simon
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Primarily a figure sculptor in marble and wood, he was born in Russia. In New York City, he studied at the Educational Alliance and Art Workshop and was active in numerous art associ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
$3,738 Sale Price
34% Off
Art Deco Expressionist Bronze Judaica Rabbi Sculpture Los Angeles Modernist
By Peter Krasnow
Located in Surfside, FL
Bronze Jewish Rabbi. Original Patina. Art-deco wood carved base. It is signed with initials P.K. and marked "Calif Art Bronze Fdry LA" (California Art Bronze Foundry Los Angeles). it is not dated.
PETER KRASNOW (1886-1979), Russian-Ukrainian, American artist painter and sculptor, born Feivish Reisberg, was a California modernist and colorist artist known for his abstract wood sculptures and architectonic hard-edge paintings and drawings which were often based on Hebrew calligraphy and other subjects related to his Jewish heritage...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Organic Form" Signed, Bronze Sculpture with Green Patina
Located in Chesterfield, MI
This sculpture by Patrick McElroy depicts a flower-like structure fixed to a Kilkenny marble base. The form is covered in a scale-like texture and coated in a green patina. The work ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
The Test, Assembled Kinetic Modernist Sculpture Puzzle Construction
Located in Surfside, FL
"The Test," 1970
Aluminum sculpture in 5 parts.
Artist's cipher and AP stamped into male figure, front,
20 5/16" x 12 1/2" x 6 5/7" (approx.)
American sculptor King is most noted for his long-limbed figurative public art sculptures depicting people engaged in everyday activities such as reading or conversing. He created his busts and figures in a variety of materials, including clay, wood, metal, and textiles. William Dickey King was born in Jacksonville, Florida. As a boy, William made model airplanes and helped his father and older brother build furniture and boats.
He came to New York, where he attended the Cooper Union and began selling his early sculptures even before he graduated. He later studied with the sculptor Milton Hebald and traveled to Italy on a Fulbright grant.
Mr. King worked in clay, wood, bronze, vinyl, burlap and aluminum. He worked both big and small, from busts and toylike figures to large public art pieces depicting familiar human poses — a seated, cross-legged man reading; a Western couple (he in a cowboy hat, she in a long dress) holding hands; a tall man reaching down to tug along a recalcitrant little boy; a crowd of robotic-looking men walking in lock step. Mr. King’s work often reflected the times, taking on fashions and occasional politics. In the 1960s and 1970s, his work featuring African-American figures (including the activist Angela Davis, with hands cuffed behind her back) evoked his interest in civil rights.
But for all its variation, what unified his work was a wry observer’s arched eyebrow, the pointed humor and witty rue of a fatalist. His figurative sculptures, often with long, spidery legs and an outlandishly skewed ratio of torso to appendages, use gestures and posture to suggest attitude and illustrate his own amusement with the unwieldiness of human physical equipment.
His subjects included tennis players and gymnasts, dancers and musicians, and he managed to show appreciation of their physical gifts and comic delight at their contortions and costumery. His suit-wearing businessmen often appeared haughty or pompous; his other men could seem timid or perplexed or awkward. Oddly, or perhaps tellingly, he tended to depict women more reverentially, though in his portrayals of couples the fragility and tender comedy inherent in couplehood settled equally on both partners.
His first solo exhibit took place in 1954 at the Alan Gallery in New York City. King was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2003, and in 2007 the International Sculpture Center honored him with the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Mr. King’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Hirshorn Museum at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere.
Reviews of his exhibitions frequently began with the caveat that even though the work was funny, it was also serious, displaying superior technical skills, imaginative vision and the bolstering weight of a range of influences, from the ancient Etruscans to American folk art to 20th-century artists including Giacometti, Calder and Elie Nadelman.
The New York Times critic Holland Cotter once described Mr. King’s sculpture as “comical-tragical-maniacal,” and “like Giacomettis conceived by John Cheever.”
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Eduardo Paolozzi: 'Construction' plaster sculpture
Located in London, GB
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Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
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Plaster
20th Century Capodimonte Ceramic Sculpture Signed and Dated, 1981
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Italian sculpture dated 1981. Capodimonte ceramic artwork signed B. Merli depicting a romantic subject, a couple of lovers. Sculpture signed on the base with a production stamp attri...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
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
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Imagined Reality - Sculpture by Vincenzo Gaetaniello - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Imagined Reality is a sculpture realized by Vincenzo Gaetaniello, in 1960s.
Cast iron, 47 x 62 x 38 cm.
Label on the back with title and the artist's proof.
Good conditions.
...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Atalanta and Hippomenes - Original signed ceramic, Certificate
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean COCTEAU
Atalanta and Hippomenes, 1958
Original ceramic plate
Signed bottom middle
Limited to 20 copies, numbered on the back
30 cm (c. 12 inch) diameter and about 3cm (c. 1.5 ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Bronze Sculpture Rabbi w Torah Judaica Figure 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
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Guatemala. Maschera di Baila de la Conquista. Inizio XX secolo
Located in Firenze, IT
Questa maschera guatemalteca del inizio del XX secolo, scolpita in legno e utilizzata per la danza della Riconquista (Baila de la Conquista) , raffigura vividamente un uomo europeo, ...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Intaglio
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Purity
Located in PARIS, FR
"Purity"
also known as "Bust of a young girl"
by Joseph BERNARD (1866-1931)
Bust in bronze with a nuanced dark brown patina
Signed “ J Bernard ” and marked “ N 3 ”
Sand cast
Cast by the artist
Raised on a wooden base
France
circa 1910
height of the bronze : 24 cm
total height with its base : 29 cm
width : 22,5 cm
depth : 13,5 cm
The model of this head is a study made for the pink marble bust...
Category
French School 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ferran Soriano 9 Gymnast Original Steel Sculpture
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
gymnast Original Steel Sculpture
He has exhibited individually since 1970, having performed more than a hundred, being the main ones in: L'Hospitalet; Ibiza; Seville; Terrace; Rome...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Codina Corona Hunt cartridge belt. wood. sculpture original realistic
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
CANANA original realistic wood piece unique sculpture
Josep Maria Codina Corona (Igualada, 1935 - Barcelona, 2006) was a Catalan sculptor. He goes to study at the Escola de la L...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Art Nouveau French Cameo Glass 'Umbels Vase' by Emile Gallé, Nancy - 63cm High
By Émile Gallé
Located in Paris, IDF
Emile GALLE
Tall Cameo Glass Vase with Umbels ornaments
Crafted in Nancy (Lorraine) c. 1905
Bearing Galle signature in cameo
Made of white opalescen...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Dancing together. Contemporary figurative bronze sculpture, Italian artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary bronze figurative sculpture of couple dancing together by Italian artist, professor Giuseppe del Debbio. Sculpture is signed on the base. Couple consists of man and a wo...
Category
Other Art Style 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hunter, Bronze and Wood Sculpture by James McCain
By James McCain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: James McCain, American (b. 1944)
Title: Hunter
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Bronze Sculpture on Wooden Base, signature and numbering inscribed
Edition: 85/250
Size: 12.5 x 6 x ...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
House in Motion
Located in New York, NY
Buky Schwartz
House in Motion, 1986
Welded steel
10 1/2 × 6 1/4 × 6 1/2 inches
This is a unique work
The sculpture is an upside down house with two human figures. It is ingeniously ...
Category
Constructivist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Floating Angel
By Judith Brown
Located in Milford, NH
A fine figurative abstract metal sculpture titled “Floating Angel” by American artist Judith Brown (1932-1992). Brown was born in New York City, attended Sarah Lawrence College of Ne...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal