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Cockerel (Rooster) Marble Sculpture
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Cockerel, ca. 1950
Carved and polished red Verona marble
4.25" wide, 8" deep, height is 22.25"
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison.
Born:
Kingf...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Dodo Bird
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Dodo, ca. 1940
Carved granite
7.75" wide, 5" deep, height is 7"
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison.
Born:
Kingfisher, OK
Education:
Univers...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Young Penguin
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Young Penguin, ca. 1950
Carved Tennessee Marble
8.5" x 7" by 3.5", height is 13 inches.
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison.
Born:
Kingfisher, O...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Green Frog
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Green Frog, ca. 1940
Carved green soapstone
6.5" wide, 5" deep, height is 3.25"
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison.
Born:
Kingfisher, OK
Educ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Larva
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Larva, ca. 1940
Carved brown soapstone
9.5" long, 4" wide, 3.75" tall
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison.
Born:
Kingfisher, OK
Education:
Un...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Monkey
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Monkey, ca. 1940
Carved New Hampshire granite
8.5" by 5", height is 16.5"
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison.
Born:
Kingfisher, OK
Education:
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Black Swan
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Black Swan , ca. 1950
Carved and polished black pearl granite
7" wide, 11.5" deep, height is 29"
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison.
Born:
Kin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Dove
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Dove, ca. 1960
Carved and polished stone
10" wide, 6.25" deep, height is 12"
Tail exhibits a small area of loss. Our conservator can repair this at no ex...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Platypuses
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Platypuses, ca. 1940
Granite
10.25" wide, 8" deep, height is 20.5"
Very heavy, dense stone. Weighs approx. 125-150 lbs.
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. M...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Sleeping Cat
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Sleeping Cat, ca. 1940
Carved Vermont granite
7.5" wide, 5" deep, height is 7"
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison.
Born:
Kingfisher, OK
Educat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Sleeping Bobcat
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Sleeping Bobcat, 1943.
Carved stone
9.5" by 8", height is 4.25"
Signed and dated 1943.
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison.
Born:
Kingfisher,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Sleepy Cat
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Sleepy Cat, ca. 1950
Pink Vermont granite
9.5" wide, 9" deep, height is 15"
Signed at base. The artist signed his work, carving directly into the stone d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Ram
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Ram, ca. 1940
Carved diorite
9" long, 6" wide, height is 7.5"
Rusty band on hind quarter is a naturally occurring iron ore occlusion in stone, which bot...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Seated Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Seated Woman, ca. 1950
Carved and polished red Italian marble
4.75" wide, 6 3/8" deep, height is 16.5""
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison.
Born...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Baboon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Baboon, ca. 1940
Carved and weathered Walnut
12" wide, 12" deep, height is 26.5"
Please note the bottom surface is not perfectly flat and the piece lean...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Walnut
Head of Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Head of Woman , ca. 1950
Carved stone
7.75" wide, 9" deep, height is 20 7/8"
Signed at base.
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison.
Born:
Kingf...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Floating Images
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Margaret Koscielny (b.1940).
Floating Images, 1974.
Plexiglass sculpture. !0 x 10 x 10 images.
Light base is new.
Margaret Koscielny's work has been recognized in Who's Who in American Art; International Who's Who; Contemporary American Sculptors: An Illustrated Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary; Dictionary of American Women Sculptors; with articles in Kalliope (interview, photographs), The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville Journal, Jacksonville Magazine; St. Petersburg Times; Atlanta Constitution and Journal; essays, by Joseph Jeffers Dodge, Drawings in Light and Space ; and Elihu Edelson, Arts Assembler; and reviewed in various newspapers, including a general review by John Canady, for The New York Times, of the American Drawing Competition, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, (in which Koscielny was a participant).
Influences and Early Background
A native of Florida, Margaret Koscielny grew up in a family of classical musicians. Her mother, a violinist, was a descendent of an American Revolutionary war hero who, according to family legend, was related to William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Her father, a violist, was a graduate of the Leipzig Conservatory, emigrating to the US in 1929, where he became a music pioneer in Florida, teaching, directing bands and orchestras, and developing music education for string ensembles in the public schools. Her sister, Anne Koscielny, a concert pianist, was also a professor of piano for over 4 decades. Her step-brother, Gordon Epperson, was a prominent cellist, writer and college professor. Her niece, Cécile Audette, is a singer and choral conductor, and her grandniece, Renée, a violinist. Both sets of grandparents were musical, as well. This has influenced Koscielny's work the most, as it has provided inspiration and a sense of layers and the element of time in the construction and architecture of her work.
Early Education and Career, 1960's
Margaret Koscielny began her art studies at Texas Woman's University with Toni La Salle, (a student of Hans Hoffman). La Salle was the first, and most important influence on Koscielny's approach to drawing and art. Ms. La Salle's paintings reflected the ideas she developed under Hoffman's instruction, and she was Koscielny's first encounter with an Abstract Expressionist painter. Koscielny then attended the University of Georgia, where she earned the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Master of Fine Arts in Art. Printmaking and drawing were the primary interests of her graduate work while studying with Charles Morgan, (a student of Jimmy Ernst, son of Max Ernst, the Surrealist). German Expressionism, surrealism and Abstract Expressionism were important influences during this time. The painters, Howard Thomas, James Herbert, and a fellow student, Jim Sitton were important mentors. She began, independently, the exploration of a technique evolved from printmaking combined with transparent media, and created her first "three-dimensional drawing-sculpture" in 1966. During the next two decades, Plexiglas was to be her primary format for drawings engraved, lighted and formed into assemblages.
Teacher, Museum Curator, Artist, 1970's
After a brief career teaching in public and private schools as well as Jacksonville University, she became Assistant to the Director of the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, (then called Ninah M. H. Cummer Gallery of Art). Margaret Koscielny was responsible for the organization and installation of exhibitions, publications, the training of Docents, and lectures on art history. During that time she also appeared regularly on television to discuss works of art in the museum's permanent collection. In December of 1973, Koscielny made a solo month-long tour of 9 major artistic capitals of Russia and the Ukraine in the former Soviet Union. This journey became the subject of nine lectures to capacity audiences at the Cummer Museum. She left the museum in 1974 to focus her activities primarily on her artwork.
The 1970's were a time of numerous commissions, private and corporate for Koscielny, and she won the first National Endowment for the Arts grant in conjunction with the Florida Arts Council in 1975. This allowed her to execute three large sculptures in plexiglas which were exhibited at the Cummer Museum in 1976. Numerous other exhibitions throughout the Southeast followed. She also founded an independent group of 10 artists, Art Celebration! in 1973, because of the lack of galleries in Jacksonville.The success of the group's exhibition over a 5 year period precipitated new galleries to be established. Koscielny finished the decade with an invitation for a One Person Show at Vanderbilt University, also winning an international competition for the new Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport in 1979-80. She was one of only 3 women out of 13 artists, chosen from 500 competitors.The resulting three-dimensional assemblage, "Whole Sight," was in four parts, each 9 x 13 feet. They were installed on four walls over a descending 40 foot escalator. In late 1979, she was invited to produce and design an original ballet...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass
Untitled abstract expressionist mid-century modern sculpture
By Thomas Morin
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Thomas Morin (1934-2017)
Untitled, 1962.
Cast iron on wood base. Cast sculpture measures 24 x 7 x 5 inches and weighs 49 lbs. Overall measures 26 inches tall on wood base.
Proc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Four Figures
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Four Figures, ca. 1960. Welded bronze, 14.5 x 9.75 x 3 inches. Signed at base.
Edgar Tafur, born and raised in Colombia, was first trained as an architect at the University of the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled (Organic abstract bronze sculpture)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Klaus Ihlenfeld (b.1934). Untitled, ca. 1960. Welded bronze. 8" h.; 5.5 " w; 3.25" d (base). Signed with initial under base.
Provenance: Directly from estate of Harry Bertoia. The piece was a gift from Ihlenfeld and is a very early example created during Bertoia apprenticeship era.
Excellent condition.
Klaus Karl Otto IhlenfeldHe was born in Berlin, Germany in 1934. He studied art at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste and completed graduate work with the metal sculptor Hans Uhlmann. He visited the US in 1957 for the first time living in Durham, NC, where he befriended Dr. W. R. Valentiner, the Rembrandt authority and Director of the Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC. Through this friendship in 1960 he met and worked with the metal sculptor Harry Bertoia in Barto, PA.
He joined the Staempfli Gallery in NYC and entered in many group and one-man shows. He has been an Artist-in-Residence in Ogden, Utah; Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia, Penn State University at University Park; the Colorado State University in Denver; and Shippensburg University. He has large commissions at Kutztown University, Pottstown Hospital, and a monumental relief sculpture at the Emigrant Savings Bank in NYC. He has traveled extensively in Spain, Greece, and Mexico. He is living and working on a farm in Barto, PA welding bronze and forged iron metal sculptures and painting watercolors.
Group Shows:
North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC - 1957
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City - 1962
Staempfli Gallery in New York City - 1962, 1964 and 1965
Gallery Ludwig Lange in West Berlin, Germany - 1977
Gallery Herbert Remmert and Dr. Barth in Dusseldorf in West Germany - 1981
Jack Savitt Gallery in Macungie, PA - 1981 and 1984
Heinz Ortleb Gallery, West Berlin, Germany - 1992
Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce Show at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA - 1997
Berks Art Alliance Show at the Reading Art Museum in Reading, PA - 1997
Mayfair Festival of the Arts at the Allentown Art Museum - 1998
Baum School of Art in Allentown, PA - 1997
Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center Art Show in Pennsburg, PA - 2001
Reading Public Museum in Reading PA, 2014
Solo Shows:
Kutztown University in Kutztown, PA - 1960 and 1965
Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, PA - 1960 and 1961
Staempfli Gallery in New York City - 1962
Penn State University in University Park, PA - 1964 and 1972
Berks Art Alliance in Wyomissing, PA - 1966
Bertha Eccles Art Center in Ogden, Utah - 1967
Mansfield University in Mansfield, PA - 1967
Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, WV - 1971
Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, PA - 1972
Albright College in Reading, PA - 1973
Ianuzzi Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ - 1974
Gallery Heimat 85 in West Berlin, Germany - 1977
Jack Savitt Gallery in Macungie, PA - 1981
College Misericordia in Dallas, PA - 1983
Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center in Pennsburg, PA, 2013
Periodical Reference:
Kaye, Ellen "The Obsessive Collector," Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine Sptember 21, 1986 pp. 32-33.
Chronology:
1-30-1934 Born in Berlin, Germany. Father, Kurt Ihlenfeld, Lutheran pastor, novelist, critic and publisher was born in 1901 in Colmar, Alsace Lorain. Mother, Annie Stuhlmann, was born in 1905 in Breslau, Lower Silesia.
1940 - 1950 Public schools in Berlin; Löwen, Lower Silesia; Coswig, Radebeul, Glaubitz, Saxony. Königin Luise-Gymnasium in Dahlem, Berlin. First artworks, drawings and paintings; few sculptures.
1950 - 1956 Studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in West Berlin, Germany. Graduate work with metal sculptor Hans Uhlmann. For 2 years maintained own studio at the Academy. Friendship with writer Günter Grass, and painter F. S. Sonnenstern. Met painters: Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Carl Hofer, Max Kaus, and sculptors: Bernhard Heiliger, Renee Sintenis, and Richard Scheibe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Reaching (bronze hand)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Reaching, ca. 1980. Cast bronze. Signed in lower region on wrist.
A rare example from the artist's later period influenced by figurative abstraction with expressionist tendencies.
James Edward Lewis (August 4, 1923 – August 9, 1997) was an African-American artist, art collector, professor, and curator in the city of Baltimore. He is best known for his role as the leading force for the creation of the James E. Lewis Museum of Art, an institution of the HBCU Morgan State University. His work as the chairman of the Morgan Art Department from 1950 to 1986 allowed for the museum to amass a large collection of more than 3,000 works, predominantly of African and African diasporan art.[1] In addition, he is also well known for his role as an interdisciplinary artist, primarily focused on sculpture, though also having notable examples of lithography and illustration. His artistic style throughout the years has developed from an earlier focus on African-American history and historical figures, for which he is most notable as an artist, to a more contemporary style of African-inspired abstract expressionism.
Early and personal life
James E. Lewis was born in rural Phenix, Virginia on August 4, 1923 to James T. Lewis and Pearline (Pearlean) Harvey.[5] Lewis' parents were both sharecroppers. Shortly after his birth, his father moved to Baltimore for increased job opportunity; James E. was subsequently raised by his mother until the family was reunited in 1925. They lived for a short time with distant relatives until moving to a four-bedroom house on 1024 North Durham Street in East Baltimore, a predominantly African-American lower-class neighborhood close to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Lewis' primary school, PS 101, was the only public school in East Baltimore that served black children. Lewis grew up in a church-going family, his parents both active members of the Faith Baptist Church, devoting the entirety of their Sundays to church activities. His parents worked a variety of different jobs throughout his youth:[6] his father working as a stevedore for a shipping company, a mechanic, a custodian, a mailroom handler,[6] and an elevator operator.] His mother worked as both a clerk at a drugstore[7] and a laundress for a private family.[4]
Lewis' primary exposure to the arts came from Dr. Leon Winslow, a faculty member at PS 101 who Lewis saw as "providing encouragement and art materials to those who wanted and needed it." In fifth grade, Lewis transferred to PS 102. Here, he was able to receive specialized Art Education in Ms. William's class under the guidance of Winslow. He was considered a standout pupil at PS 102 as a result of his introduction to the connection between the arts and the other studies. His time spent in Ms. Pauline Wharton's class allowed for him to experiment with singing, to which he was considered a talented singer. His involvement in this class challenged his earlier belief that singing was not a masculine artistic pursuit. He was able to study both European classics and negro spirituals, which was one of his earliest introductions to arts specific to American black culture. Under Ms. Wharton's direction, he was also involved in many different musical performances,[6] including some works of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project.[8] Lewis attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, where his love of the arts was heightened through his industrial art class with Lee Davis...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Abstract Figure
By Raul Diaz
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Raul Diaz (Argentina, b.1950). Abstract Figure, ca. 1970s. Canved Walnut. Measures 17 inches tall including wood base. Carved signature in lower region. Excellent condition.
An ear...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Walnut
Standing Figure
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Tom Cramer (b.1960). Standing Figure, 1998. Carved wood and polymer paint. Measures 12 inches high. Excellent condition. Signed and dated under base.
Tom Cramer is an American artist working in Portland, Oregon noted for his intricately carved and painted wood reliefs and ubiquity throughout the city of Portland. Often called the unofficial Artist Laureate of Portland,[2] Cramer is one of the most visible and successful artists in the city. The influences on his work are both organic and technological. He is widely collected and is in many prominent west coast museum and private collections. He is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum[3] in Portland Oregon, the Halle Ford Museum in Salem Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, Oregon, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho.
Cramer made a name for himself in the 1980s and 1990s becoming a bridge between historical Oregon artists like Clifford Gleason and Milton Wilson...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Latex
Banner (abstract expressionist sculpture, Tulsa OK artist)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Duayne Hatchett ((1925-2015). Banner, 1958. Welded metal, sculpture measures 11 h. x 9 w. x 3.75 d. inches. Measuring a total of 17.5 inch high on base. Base measures 5.5 x 5.5 by 6 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Greek Guitar Player
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract sculpture depicting a guitar player. Bronze on wood base measuring 15 x 9 x 4 inches. Actual cast piece without base measuring 17 x 7 x 3 inches. Signed indistinct...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of a Man
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Francisco Vazquez Diaz, known as Compostela (1898-1988). Portrait of a Man, 1949. Carved mahogany, measuring 18.75 inches h, 8.5 inches w, 11 in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mahogany
Standing Figure
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Tom Cramer (b.1960). Standing Figure, 1998. Carved wood and polymer paint. Measures 10.25 inches high. Excellent condition. Signed and dated under base.
Tom Cramer is an American artist working in Portland, Oregon noted for his intricately carved and painted wood reliefs and ubiquity throughout the city of Portland. Often called the unofficial Artist Laureate of Portland,[2] Cramer is one of the most visible and successful artists in the city. The influences on his work are both organic and technological. He is widely collected and is in many prominent west coast museum and private collections. He is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum[3] in Portland Oregon, the Halle Ford Museum in Salem Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, Oregon, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho.
Cramer made a name for himself in the 1980s and 1990s becoming a bridge between historical Oregon artists like Clifford Gleason and Milton Wilson...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Latex
Standing Figure
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Tom Cramer (b.1960). Standing Figure, 1988. Carved wood and polymer paint. Measures 11.5 inches high. Excellent condition. Signed and dated under base.
Tom Cramer is an American artist working in Portland, Oregon noted for his intricately carved and painted wood reliefs and ubiquity throughout the city of Portland. Often called the unofficial Artist Laureate of Portland,[2] Cramer is one of the most visible and successful artists in the city. The influences on his work are both organic and technological. He is widely collected and is in many prominent west coast museum and private collections. He is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum[3] in Portland Oregon, the Halle Ford Museum in Salem Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, Oregon, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho.
Cramer made a name for himself in the 1980s and 1990s becoming a bridge between historical Oregon artists like Clifford Gleason and Milton Wilson...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Latex
Standing Figure
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Tom Cramer (b.1960). Standing Figure, 1998. Carved wood and polymer paint. Measures 17.5 inches high. Excellent condition. Signed and dated under base.
Tom Cramer is an American artist working in Portland, Oregon noted for his intricately carved and painted wood reliefs and ubiquity throughout the city of Portland. Often called the unofficial Artist Laureate of Portland,[2] Cramer is one of the most visible and successful artists in the city. The influences on his work are both organic and technological. He is widely collected and is in many prominent west coast museum and private collections. He is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum[3] in Portland Oregon, the Halle Ford Museum in Salem Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, Oregon, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho.
Cramer made a name for himself in the 1980s and 1990s becoming a bridge between historical Oregon artists like Clifford Gleason and Milton Wilson...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Latex
Standing Figure
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Tom Cramer (b.1960). Standing Figure, 1980. Carved wood and polymer paint. Measures 11.5 inches high. Excellent condition. Signed and dated under base.
Tom Cramer is an American artist working in Portland, Oregon noted for his intricately carved and painted wood reliefs and ubiquity throughout the city of Portland. Often called the unofficial Artist Laureate of Portland,[2] Cramer is one of the most visible and successful artists in the city. The influences on his work are both organic and technological. He is widely collected and is in many prominent west coast museum and private collections. He is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum[3] in Portland Oregon, the Halle Ford Museum in Salem Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, Oregon, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho.
Cramer made a name for himself in the 1980s and 1990s becoming a bridge between historical Oregon artists like Clifford Gleason and Milton Wilson...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Latex
White Fins
By Martin Schreiber
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Martin Schreiber (1924-2005). White Fins, 1972. Painted steel. 9" h., 16" w., 6" d. Signed and dated on base. Minor staining, oxidation and paint loss evident. Metal structure itself is in perfect condition with no bent areas or conservation.
Born in Berlin, Germany, after his family moved there from Poland, Martin Schreiber immigrated to the United States in 1939 to escape war-torn Europe, and later served as a US Army soldier in WWII. He was a student of the late Reuben Tam...
Category
1970s Hard-Edge Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Two Untitled Compositions
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fumio Otani (Japanese, 1929-1995). Untitled and Untitled, ca, 1965. Cast and polished steel.
Smaller composition measures 14.75 x 7.75 x 1.5 inches.
Larger composition measures 16...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Costa Rican pre-Columbian sculptural figure ca. 1000-1500
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Magnificent standing figure, Costa Rica, ca. 1000-1500. Carved volcanic stone. Measures 16.5 x 9 x 5.5 inches. Outstanding condition with no damage.
The figure represents a captured...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Untitled (Outsider Art Surrealist Figural Sculpture)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Rocco Monticolo (b. 1931). Untitled, 2022. Found antique object, wood, paint. Signed on reverse of face.
Monticolo was born in Italy in 1931 and came to America in 1946. He joined ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Reclining Figure (woman)
By William King (b.1925)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
William King (1925-2015). Reclining figure, ca. 1965. Cast and welded bronze, 7 x 9.5 x 5 inches. Unsigned.
William King, a sculptor in a variety of materials whose human figures traced social attitudes through the last half of the 20th century, often poking sly and poignant fun at human follies and foibles, died on March 4 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 90.
His death was confirmed by Scott Chaskey, who is married to Mr. King's stepdaughter, Megan Chaskey.
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.
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.
Mr. King's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere. But the comic element of his work probably caused his reputation to suffer.
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 critic Hilton Kramer, one of Mr. King's most ardent advocates, wrote in a 1970 essay accompanying a New York gallery exhibit that he was, "among other things, an amusing artist, and nowadays this can, at times, be almost as much a liability as an asset."
A "preoccupation with gesture is the focus of King's sculptural imagination," Mr. Kramer wrote. "Everything that one admires in his work - the virtuoso carving, the deft handling of a wide variety of materials, the shrewd observation and resourceful invention - all this is secondary to the concentration on gesture. The physical stance of the human animal as it negotiates the social arena, the unconscious gait that the body assumes in making its way in the social medium, the emotion traced by the course of a limb, a torso, a head, the features of a face, a coiffure or a costume - from a keen observation of these materials King has garnered a large stock of sculptural images notable for their wit, empathy, simplicity and psychological precision."
William Dickey King...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kuba African Warthog Divining Figure tribal arts sculpture
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Warthog Divining Figure. Kuba, DRC. Late 19th century. Carved wood with palm oil patina, 12.5 incehes (l), 3.25 inches (h), 2 5/8 inches (d). Loss evident at tip of right ear and on snout.
Provenance: Ex. collection Martin and Faith-Dorian Wright; J.J. Klegman; Angelo Caggiula-Carulucci, chief magistrate in Belgian Congo for King Leopold...
Category
Late 19th Century Abstract Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Pre-Columbian Colima Shaman terracotta figure vessel Mexican sculpture
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Seated Shaman
Colima culture
Mexico
ca. 300 BCE - 300 CE
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hollow-cast and highly-burnished terraco...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Veracruz Mexico Pre-Columbian ceramic Warrior figure sculpture
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Figure of a Chanting Warrior
Ceramic with bitumen highlights
300-600 CE (Classic Period)
Mexico, Veracruz, possibly Nopiloa
Veracruz Culture
Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Vera Cruz culture...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Late 15th-century Old Master Burgundian Netherlands carved walnut figure
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful late 15th-century Burgundian Netherlandish portrait of a woman. Carved walnut. Original polychrome has been removed with traces at base and lower portions of figure. Minor ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Walnut
The Edge V (Op Art plexiglass box wall sculpture)
By Mon Levinson
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mon Levinson (1926-2014). The Edge V, 1965. Plexiglass, acetate and paper. 24 x 24 x 3 inches. Minor scuffing on surface of plexiglass. Original gallery label affixed en verso.
Biog...
Category
1960s Op Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Paper
Nexus
By Jack Youngerman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Abstract sculpture by American artist, Jack Youngerman (b.1926). Nexus, 1990. 24.5 inches. Aluminum, numbered 2/3. Signed and numbered on base.
1926 Born, St. Louis, Missouri; moved with family to Louisville, Kentucky in 1929
1943-44; 1946-47 Attended University of Missouri
1944-46 U.S. Navy, University of North Carolina
1947-49 Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1949-55 Lived and worked in Paris
1956 Returned to the United States; lived in New York City 1956-1995
1995-current Resides in Bridgehampton, New York
ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS:
1951 Galerie Arnaud, Paris
1958 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (1960, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1968)
1959 Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Sixteen Americans"
1962 Galerie Lawrence, Paris (also 1965)
1963 Galeria dell' Ariete, Milan
Everett Ellen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C.
1971 Pace Gallery, New York (also 1972, 1975)
1972 Portland Center for the Arts, Oregon
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
1973 The Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois
Galerie Denise Rene, Paris
1975 Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1976 Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
1981 Washburn Gallery...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum