Cleveland - Figurative Sculptures

Kristen Newell (American, b. 1989) Four Three Two One, 2015 Stoneware, porcelain and acrylic Signed and dated on bottom 16 x 15 x 14 inches Kristen Newell was born in a small town on the coast of Massachusetts, where from a very early age, she demonstrated a strong propensity for the arts. Important additional inspiration came from her family and from the family of a childhood friend, where Kristen found herself surrounded by the work of Paul Manship, her friend’s grandfather and one of America’s greatest sculptors. With increased focus on her art, along with winning numerous awards throughout high school, Newell eagerly enrolled in the arts program at University of Vermont and augmented her studies with a valuable year at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Upon graduation, Newell moved back to Cleveland to begin her art career and started participating in group shows, including River Gallery and the Ohio State...

“Bast” is A limited edition bronze sculpture of a seated black cat on a black marble base. Black patin From the limited edition of 8. Signed 1/8 Paula Blackman has been a bronze scu...

From the signed and numbered edition of 6. James Brown's artwork can be found on the collections of: Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris Musee Cantini, Marse...

Auguste Moreau (French, 1834-1917) Swan Baby, 19th Century Bronze with reddish gold patination mounted on verdigris marble base Signed on base 6 x 9.5 x 5 inches Auguste Moreau was...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

19th Century Bronze Figure of Crouching Venus or Naked Aphrodite Bronze with dark patination 22.5 x 13 x 11 inches The Crouching Venus is a Hellenisti...

John W. Kearney (American, 1924-2014) Godiva on a Rhinoceros Bronze Signed with monogram to base 6.5 x 3 x 8.5 inches Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he studied at the Cranbrook Acadamy of...

Modern Scorpion Fish, Early 20th Century Bronze on marble base 23 x 22 x 10 inches

Edwin Willard Deming (American, 1860-1942) Man with Flute and Cougar Cast bronze sculpture with golden brown patina Signed, numbered 9/100, with Fenn F...

Mario Spampinato (Italian 1912–2000) Nude Bronze Signed on base 17.5 in. h. x 5.75 in. w. x 6 in. d. The artist was born, raised and trained in Italy. During one of his exhibits (at San Marcos in Rome) the Director of a New York Gallery asked him to come to New York to work for him. The American Consul, before issuing his visa, asked Spampinato to create a bust of him. In exchange, the Consul paid for his passage on the boat to New York. In New York, he worked with his brother Clemente Spampinato who is a well known sculptor as well. After moving to Chicago in 1954, he discovered that there was no foundry in the Midwest that could cast his bronzes. So, he opened his own foundry called the Spampinato Art Foundry, casting in the lost wax process. He also started his own private school (Spampinato Art Workshop, Ltd) and did some teaching at the University of Chicago and conducted seminars at Lawrence University in Kansas. Many of his own works are pictured and cataloged in Volumes 2 & 3 of Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, 1800-1930 by Harold Berman. Between 1959 and 1967, Spampinato recast a number of Charles M Russell...

Lawrence Blazey (American, 1902-1999) Bag of Apples, c. 1950 Ceramic 6 x 14 x 5.5 inches, including base A graduate of the Cleveland School of Art in ...

After Jean Goujon (French, 1510-1568) Bust of Diane de Poitiers, 18th/19th Century Bronze 14 x 7 x 5 inches 22 x 8 x 7 inches, with base Diane de Poitiers was a French noblewoman and prominent courtier. She wielded much power and influence as King Henry II's royal mistress and adviser until his death. Her position increased her wealth and family's status. She was a major patron of French Renaissance architecture...

Kristen Newell (American, b. 1989) Venus with Koalas in Her Hair, 2020 Glazed stoneware and acrylic Signed and dated on bottom 14 x 12 x 6 inches Kristen Newell was born in a small town on the coast of Massachusetts, where from a very early age, she demonstrated a strong propensity for the arts. Important additional inspiration came from her family and from the family of a childhood friend, where Kristen found herself surrounded by the work of Paul Manship, her friend’s grandfather and one of America’s greatest sculptors. With increased focus on her art, along with winning numerous awards throughout high school, Newell eagerly enrolled in the arts program at University of Vermont and augmented her studies with a valuable year at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Upon graduation, Newell moved back to Cleveland to begin her art career and started participating in group shows, including River Gallery and the Ohio State...

Daniel Grantham (American, 20th Century) Jellyfish, 2017 Cedar wood on maple Engraved signature on bottom of base 20 x 6.5 x 6 inches Daniel Grantham was born and raised in Clevela...

Melody by Nguyen Tuan The Vietnamese master sculptor Nguyen Tuan is internationally known for his seemingly “weightless” figurative sculpture merging Western techniques with tradit...

Walter Sinz (American, 1881-1966) Mother and Child, 1949 Plaster Signed and dated on base 23.5 x 6 x 9 inches Walter A. Sinz was an American sculptor born in Cleveland, Ohio on Jul...

Kristen Newell (American, b. 1989) Beast of the Apocalypse, 2019 Glazed stoneware, epoxy and acrylic Signed and dated on bottom 24 x 28 x 10 inches Kri...

Susi Singer-Schinnerl (Austrian-American, 1891-1965) Man with Two Dogs, c. 1925 Ceramic Manufactured by the Wiener Werkstätte, model number 682 Stamped on bottom 13 x 5.5 x 4 inches...

Louis Armand Bardery (French, 1879-1952) Muse of Dance Bronze with green and brown patination Signed and stamped with foundry mark 18 x 6 inches Louis Armand Bardery was a student o...

20th Century Continental School Europa Bronze on stone base 11 in. h. x 8.5 in. w. x 4.5 in. d., overall Inspired by the Greek myth Europa and the Bull Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus...

Isidore Romain Boitel (French, 1812 - 1861) "Jeune fille aux colombes et à la corbeille de fleurs". Young girl with doves and basket of flowers Bronze ...

Helen Beling (American, 1914-2001) Business is Bad Finished plaster 21 x 9 x 9 inches Helen Beling was an American sculptor. Beling was a native of New ...

Walter Sinz (American, 1881-1966) When the Lights Go On Again, 1943 Cast Stone 10 x 4.5 x 8 inches Walter A. Sinz was an American sculptor born in Cleveland, Ohio on July 13, 1881. ...

William Zorach (American 1891-1966) First Steps, 1918 Bronze 8.5 x 5 x 4 inches, including base Born in 1887 in Lithuania, William Zorach immigrated with his family to the United States when he was just four years old, settling in Cleveland, Ohio. Zorach displayed an exceptional artistic talent at a young age and, at the recommendation of his seventh-grade teacher, began studying lithography at night at the Cleveland School of Art. It was not long before he was apprenticing at a lithography company in Cleveland. It was there that he realized he wanted to become an artist - to escape the commercial end of the field in which he was suddenly immersed. In 1907, Zorach saved enough money to move to New York and study art at the National Academy of Design, where he received several awards for his paintings and drawings. He continued his studies in Paris in 1910 at La Palette. This year abroad would turn out to be quite fruitful because in Paris he was greatly influenced by the Cubist and Fauvist movements and had several paintings exhibited at the Salon d'Automme. This influence and subsequent success fueled his career back in the states where he was honored with his first one-man exhibition. Due to this new-found stability, he married a young woman he met at school in Paris, and they moved to New York and set up a studio. Shortly after, their work was accepted into the famous 1913 Armory Show. For the next nine years, Zorach continued to think of himself as a painter, although he had already begun to experiment in sculpting. He was experiencing modest success with his painting and was therefore reluctant to abandon it completely. However, he was impelled toward sculpting, and in 1922, he painted his last oil. Zorach's involvement with sculpture began largely be accident. While he was working on a series of wood-block prints, Zorach suddenly became more interested in the butternut panel than the print and turned the panel into a carved relief. With no formal training as a sculptor, Zorach's first sculptures were of wood and his carving tools were primitive, such as a jack-knife. I n fact, his early works have a certain stylized look, suggesting the influence of various primitive arts such as African and American folk. Zorach found his sculptural direction by instinct, but was not unaware of what other sculptors were doing, both here and abroad. He soon allied himself with a growing number of modern sculptors who believed in the esthetic necessity of carving their own designs directly in the block of stone or wood rather than modeling them in clay. From the beginning he found a deep satisfaction in the slow and patient process of freeing the image from its imprisoning block, watching the forms emerge and appear. "The actual resistance of tough material is a wonderful guide," Zorach said in a lecture on direct sculpture in 1930. The sculptor "cannot make changes easily, there is no putting back tomorrow what was cut away today. His senses are constantly alert. If something goes wrong there is the struggle to right the rhythm. And slowly the vision grows as the work progresses." Zorach also found that the material itself had a constantly modifying effect on the artist's vision. The grain of the wood, the markings in the stone, the shape of the log or boulder all set limits and suggested possibilities. He was always sensitive to the characteristic qualities of his material and occasionally let them play a major role in determining his forms. In works such as these, the feel of the original material is preserved in the finished piece and is often heightened by leaving parts of the original surface untouched and other areas roughly marked by the sculptors tools...

Kristen Newell (American, b. 1989) Maybe She's Not a Straight On Type of Gal, 2022 Stoneware and porcelain Signed and dated on bottom 12 x 9 x 9 inches Kristen Newell was born in a small town on the coast of Massachusetts, where from a very early age, she demonstrated a strong propensity for the arts. Important additional inspiration came from her family and from the family of a childhood friend, where Kristen found herself surrounded by the work of Paul Manship, her friend’s grandfather and one of America’s greatest sculptors. With increased focus on her art, along with winning numerous awards throughout high school, Newell eagerly enrolled in the arts program at University of Vermont and augmented her studies with a valuable year at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Upon graduation, Newell moved back to Cleveland to begin her art career and started participating in group shows, including River Gallery and the Ohio State...

Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945) Nude Walking, 1930 Bronze Signed and dated on base 17 x 9 x 4 inches Born in Poland March 1, 1891, figurative sculptor Max Kalish came to the United States in 1894, his family settling in Ohio. A talented youth, Kalish enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place award for modeling the figure during studies with Herman Matzen. Kalish went to New York City following graduation, studying with Isidore Konti and Herbert Adams...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Inspiration by Nguyen Tuan The Vietnamese master sculptor Nguyen Tuan is internationally known for his seemingly “weightless” figurative sculpture merging Western techniques with t...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Bronze #85 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-si...

A limited edition bronze Horse on a black marble base. From the limited edition of 8. Signed 1/8 Paula Blackman has been a bronze sculptor for 30 years working in Cleveland Ohio. ...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Bronze #80 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-si...

20th Century French School Dancer Patinated bronze 38 x 18.5 x 9 inches Provenance: The Tatti Family Collection

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Bronze #68 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-si...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Bronze #67 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-si...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Bronze #54 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-si...

Bronze #105 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-s...

Devotion by Nguyen Tuan The Vietnamese master sculptor Nguyen Tuan is internationally known for his seemingly “weightless” figurative sculpture merging Western techniques with trad...

Cast Iron #86 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life...

Contemplation by Nguyen Tuan The Vietnamese master sculptor Nguyen Tuan is internationally known for his seemingly “weightless” figurative sculpture merging Western techniques with...

Embrace by Nguyen Tuan The Vietnamese master sculptor Nguyen Tuan is internationally known for his seemingly “weightless” figurative sculpture merging Western techniques with tradi...