Oak Figurative Sculptures

A stunning hand-made oak sculpture aviation model featuring a jet airplane. Rounded stepped oak wood base with compass marquetry, a flying albatross bird, and marked "Cognac". Cognac...

Sculptural female figure, designed by Laurids Lonborg for IKEA in the 1980's - can be used as a coat rack, art, or home decor. The female has ...

Well-crafted and sacred work of religious art.  This modest size and all hand-carved corpus of Christ is mounted on an oak cross and this fine example is in good condition. The cros...

Carved oak library sculpture "Knowledge" by American modernist William Ehrich. An early work by the artist. Unsigned. This was the artists first sculture in wood. Provenance: illustrated on his son's website, "Ehrich.us" William Ehrich is a strong sculptor in wood and stone. His practice and teaching in Buffalo and Rochester have had a marked influence on the quality of the glyptic arts in their regional shows in those communities. Coming to the United States from Germany in 1929, Ehrich worked for three years before first showing his sculpture in a Western New York exhibition. This appearance brought him artistic favor and gained for him the patronage of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Weiss of Buffalo - who helped him to continue his creative work. The sculptured portraits of Noel and Mary, on page 23, are of their children. In addition to these commissions, the Weisses own a number of other pieces by Ehrich. In 1937, after several years of teaching at Buffalo, Ehrich was invited to Rochester, New York, to give instruction in modeling and sculpture at the Memorial Art Gallery and the University of Rochester. Sometime later, the sculptor moved permanently to Rochester where he continues to teach and practice. Besides exhibition pieces, Ehrich executes portraits and memorials, and when architecture and building Revive, he hopes to do architectural sculpture - a field in which he was active in Germany before coming here. His first one-man show in New York, at the Clay Club in 1941, elicited favorable notices from the critics. Emily Genauer likened his work to that of Barlach; others remarked on his Fine craftsmanship and versatility in a variety of materials; all of them commented on the artist's creative and interpretive talents. The Lillian Fairchild Award of Rochester, given annually to a resident of Rochester contributing the most meritorious work in the fields of art, music and literature, was awarded to Ehrich in 1942. Both the Albright Art Gallery and the Memorial Art Gallery have purchased representative pieces of his sculpture for their permanent collections. The following notes on technique have been contributed by the artist: "To begin with, it might be of some interest that I was born at the tail end of the last century when Impressionism was flourishing. As a small boy I liked to whittle, and early I went to art classes doing ship carving...