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Place of Origin: North American
Russell Wright spun aluminum bowl with raffia wrap .
By Russel Wright
Located in Ferndale, MI
Spun aluminum bowl designed by Russell Wright mid 1950s . Lightweight aluminum spun and formed into nicely sculpted bowl . Raffia wrapped handles on either side . There are some min...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Aluminum
Vintage Pink Opalescent Ribbed Fostoria Glass Dish Bowl with Ruffle Edges
By Fostoria Glass Company
Located in East Quogue, NY
Elegant vintage 1950s pale pink opalescent Heirloom square ribbed candy dish bowl with curved corners by Fostoria Glass Company.
Size: 3" tall x 8" diameter.
Excellent vintage...
Category
1950s Modern Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
La Mola Tumbler, Handmade and Food Safe, by Artist Stef Duffy
By Stef Duffy
Located in Jersey City, NJ
La Mola Tumbler, shown here in embossed raven/ivory, the food safe vessel for your favorite beverage of choice, entertaining, or as a decorative object or object d'art. Versatile, su...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Pottery, Stoneware
Oaxaca Black Clay Tzinacan Decorative Burnished Polished Fired Oxygen Reduction
By La muerte tiene permiso
Located in London, GB
Tzinacan is the Nahuatl word for bat, and it is our gift for the bats represented in many ceramic pre-hispanic pieces.
Bats have been part of the mythology of the cultures of pre-Hi...
Category
2010s American Colonial North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Clay
Modern Industrial Menorah in White Oakwood and Steel
By Alabama Sawyer
Located in Birmingham, AL
Display this modern industrial menorah in white oakwood and steel to celebrate eight days of Hanukkah miracles. Made with solid urban wood, so it's ...
Category
2010s Organic Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Steel
Consolidated listing for Hugh Abdullah
By Fort Standard
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large Contemporary Brass Cone Spindle Candle Holders
Pair of Candle Holders
Each candle holder: Height: 18 in. (45.72 cm) x Width: 2.5 in. (6.35 cm) x Depth: 2.5 in. (6.35 cm)
Small Contemporary Brass Dome Spindle Candleholders...
Category
2010s North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Art Nouveau House Numbers Bronze Made after Hector Guimard Designs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Art Nouveau bronze numbers cast in bronze from the design of Hector Guimard from France. They are priced ( Each ) We have many of them . Let us know w...
Category
Early 2000s Art Nouveau North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Paul Evans "Patchwork" Decorative Hinged Box in Etched Aluminum 1970
By Paul Evans
Located in New York, NY
Rare "Patchwork" hinged box in etched aluminum with 3 compartments lined in cork by Paul Evans for C.C. Design, American 1970. Boxes like this were made in small numbers and this is...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Aluminum
Monumental Blenko Art Glass, 1970
By Blenko Glass
Located in Chicago, IL
Monumental Blenko Art Glass, 1970. Absolutely stunning piece.
Piece measures 30" tall and 11" diameter at bottom.
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Blown Glass
Antique Tiffany Edwardian Classical Sterling Silver Oval Trinket Box
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New York, NY
Edwardian Classical sterling silver trinket box. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. Oval with upward tapering sides and hinged scrolled cover. On sides applied ribbon-tied garland. O...
Category
Early 20th Century Edwardian North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Traditional Old Country Friday Night Shabbos Candlesticks
By Elgin Silversmith Co. 1
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Old Country sterling silver candlesticks. Made by Elgin Silversmith Co., Inc. in New York, ca 1950. Each: Bellied socket on baluster shaft; domed foot with three embossed scr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Biedermeier North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
McCoy Crystal Quartz Amethyst Pyrite Cab Jewelry Box, 1960
By Nelson McCoy Pottery Company
Located in Chicago, IL
McCoy Crystal Quartz Amethyst Pyrite Cab Jewelry Box, 1960.
Measures 10" long, 8.5" deep and 5.5" tall
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Amethyst
Novelty Desk Accessory—Tiffany Modern Sterling Silver 12-Inch Ruler
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New York, NY
Novelty sterling silver desk accessory. In form and with dimensions of a 12-inch ruler engraved on one edge and 30 centimeters on the other. Back plain. Stylish and useful with small...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Large Studio Ceramic Vase by Tim Keenan
By Tim Keenan
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Large studio ceramic vase by Tim Keenan.
Category
Early 2000s Mid-Century Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Handmade Wall Clock 1970s American Craft
Located in San Francisco, CA
Late 1970s one of a kind handmade wall clock, constructed of a radius of earth toned suede on a solid asymmetrical wooden frame. The clock face is ...
Category
1970s Organic Modern Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Toshiko Takaezu Bottle Form Pot
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautiful ceramic vessel by Toshiko Takaezu. this is an early bottle form, the glazing is consistent with this time period and the signature is also correct for the time period, whi...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Native American Painted Bark & Twig Basket
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Stunning antique hand crafted Native American painted bark and twig basket having rustic bentwood handles.
Note: Pair is available.
Category
Early 20th Century Tribal North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Twig
American Edwardian Modern Sterling Silver Oval Picture Frame
Located in New York, NY
American Edwardian Modern sterling silver picture frame, ca 1910. Oval window in same surround with canted interior border and flat sides. Two ball supports. Simple and unadorned for...
Category
Early 20th Century Edwardian North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Small Blue Glass Water Bag - Hyperreal glass sculpture by Dylan Martinez
Located in East Quogue, NY
NEW RELEASE! Blue Series - Hyperreal small blue water bag glass sculpture, solid and hollow glass by Dylan Martinez.
Size: 10.25 x 6 x 3.75 inches
Dylan Martinez' hyperreal sculpt...
Category
2010s Minimalist North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
Pair Vintage Tiffany & Co. Ceramic Weaved Baskets, 1960
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
Pair Vintage Tiffany & Co. Ceramic Weaved Baskets, 1960.
Creamy white ceramic footed baskets made by Tiffany & Co. stamped on bottom in blue.
Measure 4.5" tall to handles and 4" diam...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
A Marble Bird Sculpture By Maitland Smith
By Maitland Smith
Located in London, GB
A marble Sea Gull sculpture in tessellated Emporador Italian marble with brass accents by Maitland Smith USA circa 1980
Captured in movement, great scale and form.
Category
1980s Modern Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Brass
Aged Brass and Acrylic Waste Basket and Tissue Holder by Charles Hollis Jones
By Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Palm Springs, CA
1970’s Glamorous antique brass and lucite basket and tissue holder by American renowned designer Charles Hollis Jones.
In original vintage condition shows minor wear consistent wit...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Pair of Traditional American Colonial Sterling Silver Candlesticks
Located in New York, NY
Pair of traditional American Colonial sterling silver candlesticks. Each: Spool socket with detachable bobeche on baluster shaft with knops and flange; domed foot. Six shells on bobeche and foot. Marked “Sterling” with retailer’s stamp (“Metropolitan Museum Reproduction...
Category
Late 20th Century American Colonial North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Spatial Spiral: Crawl - Abstract spiral ceramic sculpture by Michael Boroniec
Located in East Quogue, NY
Spatial Spiral "Crawl" ceramic sculpture by Michael Boroniec - ceramic, glaze
Michael Boroniec’s “Spatial Spiral” series is an adventure in three dimensions and expands the concept ...
Category
2010s Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Cartier Country Chic Sterling Silver Basket with Enameled Strawberries
By Cartier
Located in New York, NY
Midcentury Modern sterling silver basket. Retailed by Cartier in New York. Rectangular with straight sides. Plain rim and fixed c-scroll handle with “stitched” rims. Woven strips. Ov...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Large Fossilized Whale Vertebrae
Located in Bradenton, FL
Natural weathered fossilized Whale Vertebrae. One section / specimen. Possibly sperm whale. Likely 19th century.
Category
19th Century Organic Modern Antique North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Bone
A large Marble Perched Crane Sculpture By Maitland Smith
By Maitland Smith
Located in London, GB
A large perched crane bird sculpture in tessellated Emporador marble and brass by Maitland Smith USA. Great scale, size and caught in perfect movement this modernist stylised sculptu...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Brass
1960s Mid Century Modern Abstract Metal "Wall Jewelry" Sculpture Harry Bertoia
By Harry Bertoia
Located in Peoria, AZ
MAGNIFICENT!
BRUTALIST HANDWORKED
SCULPTED METAL WALL ART
Attributed to Harry Bertoia.
INCREDIBLE WELDS, WORKMANSHIP & DESIGN!
HUGE!
Approximately 42" x 35" and up to 8" Deep...
Category
Mid-20th Century Brutalist North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Antique American Victorian Classical Sterling Silver Loving Cup Trophy
By Frank W. Smith, Theodore B. Starr
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Classical sterling silver loving cup, ca 1890. Baluster bowl with flared rim and raised foot. High-looping capped double-scroll handles. Exuberant embossed and cast ornamen...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
A Set Of Tea Candle Holders In Tessellated Marble And Brass By Maitland Smith
By Maitland Smith
Located in London, GB
A pair of tea candle holders in tessellated marble and brass inlay. Supported on rectangle bases the stems with segmented marble uprights with stylis...
Category
1980s Modern Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Brass
Wood valet tray vanity tray catchall tray home office dresser kitchen in stock
Located in Sacramento, CA
This stylish artisan wood valet tray, vanity tray or catchall tray for home, office, dresser or kitchen is a collectable among home decorators. For home, office, dresser or kitchen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Craftsman North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Sapele Wood
Andy Warhol "after" Pop Art Campbell's Soup Can, 1960
By Andy Warhol
Located in Chicago, IL
In the style of Andy Warhol "after pop art" Campbell's Soup Can, 1960
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Circa 1850 American Document Box of Historical Importance Boston
Located in Hudson, NY
This historically important, American leather clad document box, was made in Boston in the mid nineteenth century. The box belonged to, Samuel Francis Smith (October 21, 1808 – Novem...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Classical Antique North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Leather, Pine, Linen
Jim Rose Barn House Structure, Welded Steel Sculpture Made with Salvaged Steel
By Jim Rose
Located in Chicago, IL
This is a welded steel sculpture made by furniture creator Jim Rose. It is sustainable design created from salvaged and recycled steel panels left over from his larger projects. Thes...
Category
2010s Folk Art North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Steel
condesita pedestal plaster bowl in bone by öken house studios
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Organic sculptural minimalist plaster bowl on foot made of plaster in bone color and sealed with matte sealer.
Each piece is an individual, hand-crafted by Palm Desert based plaster...
Category
2010s Organic Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Plaster
Dora Maar Centerpiece Pedestal Bowl
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Serve Surrealism. Our larger-than-life Dora Maar Centerpiece Pedestal Bowl is the grand head-turner every dining experience deserves. Inspired by Dora Maar, the French photographer, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Organic Earthen Textured Modern Ceramic Vase, Vessel
By Skoby Joe
Located in La Jolla, CA
Joseph Skoby is a Southern Californian whose work is inspired by the nature of his native state. His ceramics, created in his own lush garden, recall his intimate dance with the ocea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mid-Century Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Clay
Hand Blown Glass Ashtray 'Circling Mountains in Clear'
By Fort Makers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Handmade by Jason Bauer and Romina Gonzales
Materials: Glass
Dimensions: H 2" x W 4" x D 4"
Small, but substantial, this solid glass catchall features smoothed peaks surroundin...
Category
2010s North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Blown Glass
Don Reitz Studio Ceramic Vase
By Don Reitz
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Large ceramic tea bowl with abstract design.
Signed on the bottom “Reitz”.
Measures: 4.5" H x 5.25" D.
Don Reitz (1929-2014) is recognized as one of the most important and influ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Mexican Modernist Mixed Metal and Abalone Scorpion Dish
By Sanborns, Los Castillo, William Spratling, Los Castillos
Located in Houston, TX
Mexican Modernist mixed metal and Abalone Scorpion dish.
Large Mexican modernist or Mexican midcentury mixed metal and abalone scorpion dish, bowl or...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Stainless Steel, Copper, Brass
"Mourning Victory, " Sculpture by Daniel Chester French, Lincoln Memorial Artist
By Daniel Chester French
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the loveliest and most poignant sculptures ever created by an American artist, this study for the Melvin Memorial by Daniel Chester French, most famed for his beloved figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial...
Category
Early 1900s Belle Époque Antique North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Plaster
Wulfenite From Arizona // 2.42 Lb.
Located in New York, NY
From a newer pocket from the Rowley Mine in Arizona — famous for the unbelievable orange coloring and brilliant luster of their wulfenites — this wulfenite specimen also features sec...
Category
2010s North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal
Handbuilt Ceramic Sculpture, Pod Composite 'Black Coal' in Matte Black
By Helena Starcevic Ceramics
Located in New York, NY
Hand Built Ceramic Sculpture, "Black Coal". A composite of hollow, elongated, pointed oval or elliptical shapes, individually hand-formed clay parts, attached together and fused during the firing. This is a dark stoneware with a black underglaze revealing all the scrapes and marks of the clay underneath. The individual parts are all different, together they create a landscape inspired by the huge bare boulders of the Anza Borrego...
Category
2010s Organic Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Tell Me That You Love Me, Objet d'Art Box with Opening Door and Small Portraits
By John Seubert
Located in Chicago, IL
Self-taught artist John Seubert, AKA John Dolly, repurposes objects he uncovers as he rehabs older homes in Chicago. This piece, with it's titled "Tell Me That You Love Me" embossed ...
Category
2010s Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Reclaimed Wood, Paint
Patinated Cast Iron Biomorphic Planter 'Cala' By Bradley Bowers
By Bradley L. Bowers
Located in New York, NY
This curvaceous, biomorphic sculptural cast iron planter has a rich, varied "living" patina stemming from the natural rusting of iron. Suitable for indoor or outdoor use.
Additional...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Organic Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
Summer Pear, Bronze Sculpture with Textured Golden Surface on Concrete Base
By Mary Block
Located in Chicago, IL
An oversized bronze pear sits upon a circular concrete base in Mary Block's unique work entitled Summer Pear. This one of a kind bronze sculpture is perfe...
Category
2010s Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Cement, Bronze
LC Tiffany Green Opal & Hooked Feather Art Glass Footed Favrile Vase, circa 1901
By Louis Comfort Tiffany
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Offering this scare, decorated Louis Comfort Tiffany favrile gold & lime opal art glass footed vase with gold hooked feather decoration. This vase features a bulbous, tapered body wi...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Art Glass
Giant Excedrin Pill Pop Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Monumental vintage Excedrin pill in cream plaster/ceramic. 3.75" diameter. Likely used as a store display. Whimsical desktop object or paperweight. Green felted bottom. Great piece o...
Category
1970s Vintage North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Plaster, Paint
I Need a Boy-Toy, Vanity Mirror, Mixed Media Objet D'art
By John Seubert
Located in Chicago, IL
Self-taught artist John Seubert, AKA John Dolly, uses objects he uncovers as he rehabs older homes in Chicago. This piece has two frames that are hinged together. A mirror adorns the outside. When opened, the right panel has a primitive figure painting while the left has a metal plaque with the phrase "I Need a Boy Toy" stamped into it. When closed, the back panel is stamped with "Like I Need a Refrigerator" and signed.
John Seubert
I Need a Boy-Toy (Like I Need a Refrigerator)
mixed media
12.50h x 8.50w x 1.50d in
31.75h x 21.59w x 3.81d cm
JSE074
In the early Nineties, John Seubert was living in a former hotel in a high-rise building on St. James Place in Chicago. The apartment was tiny, as hotel rooms tend to be, and clad with paper-thin walls allowing sound to pass from one apartment to the other. At the time, John’s artwork consisted of pounding copper sheets into tables which was a noisy endeavor to say the least. Following several noise complaints from the neighbors, John had a dream that he was living in a ramshackle house but with plenty of room to work and no attached neighbors. The following day after lunching at the McDonalds in Lincoln Park, John wandered the neighborhood a came upon a shabby, falling-down old Victorian house. He located the real estate agent, put in an offer, and weeks later was pushing a shopping cart full of his belongings to his new home.
This 144-year-old Painted Lady provided a blank canvas for this inimitable artist. For many years the house remained so empty that John was able to ride his Japanese fold up bike throughout the 1st floor. “Some people want to have sex...
Category
Early 2000s Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Reclaimed Wood, Paint, Mirror
Machined Aluminum Conceptual, Minimalist Tabletop Sculpture by Visibility Office
By Visibility Studio
Located in New York, NY
Sleek, machined aluminum "mirror", a semi-functional and fully-conceptual tabletop sculpture by New York City-based industrial design studio Visibility Office. Please note, this list...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Aluminum
Fountain of Lies, Objet d'Art with Painting and Found Objects
By John Seubert
Located in Chicago, IL
Self-taught artist John Seubert, AKA John Dolly, uses objects he uncovers as he rehabs older homes in Chicago. This piece has a figurative painting mounted as a shrine then set upon a corinthian capital and a granite stand. A metal plaque at the top as well as at the bottom give the piece it's title 'The Fountain on Lies".
John Seubert
The Fountain of LIes
mixed media
Measures: 22.50h x 13.50w x 4d in
57.15h x 34.29w x 10.16d cm
JSE069
In the early Nineties, John Seubert was living in a former hotel in a high-rise building on St. James Place in Chicago. The apartment was tiny, as hotel rooms tend to be, and clad with paper-thin walls allowing sound to pass from one apartment to the other. At the time, John’s artwork consisted of pounding copper sheets into tables which was a noisy endeavor to say the least. Following several noise complaints from the neighbors, John had a dream that he was living in a ramshackle house but with plenty of room to work and no attached neighbors. The following day after lunching at the McDonalds in Lincoln Park, John wandered the neighborhood a came upon a shabby, falling-down old Victorian house. He located the real estate agent, put in an offer, and weeks later was pushing a shopping cart full of his belongings to his new home.
This 144-year-old Painted Lady provided a blank canvas for this inimitable artist. For many years the house remained so empty that John was able to ride his Japanese fold up bike throughout the 1st floor. “Some people want to have sex...
Category
Early 2000s Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Paint, Reclaimed Wood
50 Million Year Old Fossil Fish Mural from the Green River Formation, Wyoming
By Green River Fossil Company
Located in Logan, UT
This unique fossil mural features two Diplomystus dentatus, a Cockerellites liops (formerly known as Priscacara), and seven Knightia eocaena; these fish are all Eocene era fossils dating back about 50 million...
Category
2010s North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Limestone
Pair of White Porcelain Kawa Vessels, Tactile, Organic, Leather Cast Ceramics
By Luft Tanaka
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pair of Kawa Vessels. 1 x 10inch height and 1 x 12 inch height.
Tactile and textured organic porcelain vase with an glossy glazed interior surface. Works well as a pair or individua...
Category
2010s Organic Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Clay, Ceramic, Porcelain
"Curvature", Hand Built Ceramic Sculptural Organic Form in Subtle Matte White
By Jerilyn Virden
Located in Chicago, IL
Using the vernacular of the vessel, I use earthenware clay to create intimate spaces. Each form employs a language that reveals its intentions. My interest lies in the slight shifts ...
Category
2010s Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Autumn Pear, Bronze Sculpture with Textured Golden Surface on Concrete Base
By Mary Block
Located in Chicago, IL
An oversized bronze pear sits upon a concrete base in Mary Block's unique work entitled Autumn Pear. This one of a kind bronze sculpture is perfect in its imperfect shape as only nat...
Category
2010s Modern North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Cement, Bronze
Art Deco Style Box with Ebony Veneer, with Inlays in Bronze and Springwood
By Loyzaga
Located in Mexico, Ciudad de México
Box built in springwood with ebony veneer, with inlays in bronze and springwood.
Influence came from Marion Dorn ´s design of the black and cream geometric patterned rug lounge of Th...
Category
2010s Art Deco North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Yongjin Han, Untitled, Sculpture in Bronze, United States, 1996
By Yongjin Han
Located in New York, NY
Yongjin Han was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1934. After the Korean War—in which he fought, lying about his age in order to enlist—he was one of six students admitted to the sculpture program at the Seoul National University. At the time of his enrollment little of his native city remained intact; nonetheless, he had never felt more responsible to his work, firm in the conviction that artistic expression is every bit as essential to life and human nature as eating, drinking, or breathing.
One of Han’s teachers was Kim Chong Yung, a pioneer of Korean abstract sculpture, and by the time of his graduation he had adopted the abstraction that had seized both Europe and the United States several years before. . In 1967 he relocated to the USA, where he studied at Dartmouth and Columbia. Over the course of his long career the artist returned to Korea with frequency and made extended stays in Japan and Europe.
Trips to Korea signified something more than mere homesickness: Han’s work, though made largely in America, remained grounded in his rich cultural heritage. Korea rests on a bedrock of granite, and freestanding sculpture produced of the stone has for centuries demarcated sites of historical and religious significance. Han’s sculpture bridges this past with modernity. Richard A. Born, former Curator at the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, has said that Han “brought Korea’s tradition of direct stone carving out of figuration into a refined, non-objective abstraction.”
For his part, Han put very little stock in designations; his focus, instead, was on the stone itself. His pieces explore a certain harmonization with nature. Han, when describing his work, said, "As stone has been around since the beginning of time, it has much to teach us if we care to slow down and listen." He believed that each stone has its own history, character, and energy and that his task was to draw out these inherently spiritual qualities. He described his process as a “dialogue” with his material: "The stone tells me it has an itch in a certain spot, so I scratch it—and we both feel better!"
Han worked alone and with manual tools, and the process is arduous. Carving stone this way takes time, and, what’s more, required great force—yet Han’s sculptures, even the monumental ones, are, as friend and fellow artist David Parker says, “all gentle grace and warmth” … [the sculptor] “engages with the stone as an equal—like wayfarers meeting on a path, Han and a stone spend time together and when they part, both are marked and changed forever.”
Yongjin Han's career spanned decades and continents, and included several prestigious large-scale public commissions. In Seoul his work can be found at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the IE Young Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whanki Museum, the Ewha Woman’s University Museum, Posong High School, and the 88 Olympics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Jim Rose Barn House Structure, Welded Steel Sculpture Made with Salvaged Steel
By Jim Rose
Located in Chicago, IL
This is a welded steel sculpture made by furniture creator Jim Rose. It is sustainable design created from salvaged and recycled steel panels left over from his larger projects. These sculptures reference traditional American Folk Art barn...
Category
2010s Folk Art North American Decorative Objects
Materials
Steel
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