Donald De Lue Art

We purchased this from Child’s gallery many years ago, they represented the estate of the artist. Donald De Lue Large Org Drawing From Estate. Donald Harcourt De Lue is a 20th-century sculptor of monumental works in the Realist style. "His sculpture demonstrates artistic links to both Greco-Roman and late Renaissance sculptors," writes sculptor Jonathan L. Fairbanks in the "American Figurative Sculpture Catalogue" by Katherine Lane Weems for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "He emulated the exuberant gestures and energetic composition such as those found at Pergamum. The mature Michelangelo especially inspired De Lue to compose his figures with mannerist proportions, emphasized with highly articulated musculature. However, by combining these older influences with the ideas and techniques acquired during his French tour (taken after World War I where he was influenced by the work of the romantic sculptor Emile Antoine Bourdelle), De Lue developed his own synthesis. As he admitted, "Although my work is traditional, it is a tradition of my own'." De Lue, a child prodigy who apprenticed in his teens to American and British figurative sculptors, served as an assistant to American portrait artist, Bryant Baker...