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Item Ships From: Continental US
From the Pyx Series, Full figure
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
From the Pyx Series, Portrait male unraveling
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Flayed man in decorative frame
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Adam & Eve with close ups
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Bronze Modernist Biomorphic Sculpture Horse, Stand Colin Webster Watson Art Deco
Located in Surfside, FL
Colin Webster Watson (1926-2007, New Zealand), sleeping horse, sculpture, bronze, supported on wooden base, signed, AP
Sculpture Of A Suspended Horse
Colin Webster-Watson (1926, Pa...
Category
1970s Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Defaced graveyard portraits
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Small Pox vessel
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Egyptian bowl
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Courting Cranes 2/50- Kevin Box and Robert J. Lang
By Kevin Box
Located in Napa, CA
“It took two years of tireless experimentation for me to develop the process of casting paper into bronze, another seven years to perfect, and it continues to evolve today.” - Kevin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Flay in a Frame
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Adam & Eve series: Vessel #1
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Feminist Figurative Mixed Media Contemporary Sculpture Warrior Waging Peace 1282
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Warrior Waging Peace: Addressing Protection 1282 - Feminist Figurative Mixed Media Black and Colorful Contemporary Sculpture
Free-standing contemporary sculpture with...
Category
2010s Feminist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
'Flower' original stone Shona sculpture signed by Benjamin Mundara
By Benjamin Mundara
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Flower' is an original fruit serpentine sculpture signed by the Zimbabwean artist Benjamin Mundara. The title 'Flower' in this case is more suggestive than definitive, as the sculpt...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
King of the Rusted Crown
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Exhibited
"Distilled Beauty: Select Artists from the 14th International Art Renewal Center Salon" at American Legacy Fine...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
"Cherry Jell-O" Pop Art Sculpture 20" x 24" x 4" inch Edition 1/1 by Kii Arens
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cherry Jell-O" Sculpture 20" x 24" x 4" inch Edition 1/1 by Kii Arens
ABOUT
One of the most credible and influential in Los Angeles - the award winning Kii Arens, is a critical dri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Mixed Media
Clown Holding Teddy Bear, Unique Bronze Expressionist Sculpture
By Agnes Yarnall
Located in Surfside, FL
Agnes Yarnall LePage, began studying sculpture at the age of 6 at the Liberty Tadd School of Modeling. She went on to study with Charles Grafly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before opening her own studio in the late 1920s, with the support of her parents, Anna B. Coxe and Charlton Yarnall.
Over the years, Ms. Yarnall's work included numerous portraits, human figures and animal sculptures. Among her proudest achievements were busts of George Washington and General Lafayette, displayed at the Valley Forge Historical Society, and of Abraham Lincoln, at the Union League of Philadelphia. She also counted among her premier accomplishments busts she sculpted of Ronald Reagan, Jack Nicklaus and Pope John Paul II. One reviewer who had seen her depictions of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dame Judith Anderson, Carl Sandburg and Sir John Gielgud lauded her work for its ''sensitivity, grace and dynamism," her family said. During her early career Ms. Yarnall studied and worked with such great artists as Boris Blai, Paul Manship and Alexander Archipenko.
In addition to her long career in sculpture, she also was an accomplished poet. Her books included Indian Summer, Hesperides and Other Poems and Pandora and Other Poems. In 1987 Ms. Yarnall was presented with the Living Legacy Award as ''Evocatrix Extraordinary" by the Women's International Center, joining such honorees as Dame Judith Anderson, Clare Boothe...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bust of Alberto Giacometti, Sculpture by Paul von Ringelheim
By Paul von Ringelheim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul Von Ringelheim, Austrian/American (1933 - 2003)
Title: Bust of Alberto Giacometti
Year: Circa 1970
Medium: Painted Plaster
Size: 29.5 x 13 x 17.5 inches
Category
1970s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Paint
'Excited Girl' original Shona stone sculpture signed by Colleen Madamombe
By Colleen Madamombe
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Excited Girl' is an original black serpentine sculpture by the celebrated second generation Shona artist Colleen Madamombe. The sculpture presents a character common to Madamombe's ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Cherry - Bleu Vague
By Cat Sirot
Located in New York, NY
Cat Sirot is a French plastic artist, with a focus on painting and Sculpture. She lives near Paris and works in her Argenteuil Studio. Through her sculptural...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Varnish
Figurative Marble Sculpture, "Kindred"
By TONY GANGITANO
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind Italian white Carerra marble sculpture by San Diego artist Tony Gangitano. Its dimensions are 10" x 25" x 10". It is on a black granite base. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery.
This sculpture is a representation of Mary and Christ...
Category
2010s Italian School Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Marble
Bronze Sculpture Charles Dickens Figure American Boston Figural Modernist
By David Aronson
Located in Surfside, FL
I have seen this piece identified as Wizard and as Micawber from Charles Dickens David Copperfield ("something will turn up")
Aronson, David 1923-
David Aronson, son of a rabbi, was born in Lithuania in 1923 and immigrated to America at the age of five. He settled in Boston, Massachusetts where he studied at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts under Karl Zerbe, a German painter well known in the early 1900s. Aronson later taught at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts for fourteen years and founded the School of Fine Art at Boston University where he is today a professor emeritus. An internationally renowned sculptor & painter, Aronson has won acclaim for his interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Talmud and Kabala. His best known works include bronze castings, encaustic paintings, and pastels. His work is included in many important public and private collections, and has been shown in several museum retrospectives around the country. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th century American artists.
At twenty-two David Aronson had his first one-man show at New York's Niveau Gallery. The next year, six of his Christological paintings were included in the Fourteen Americans exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art where Aronson’s work was included alongside abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell and Isamu Noguchi. In the 1950s, Aronson turned more toward his Jewish heritage for the inspiration for his art. Folklore as well as Kabalistic and other transcendental writings influenced his work greatly. The Golem (a legendary figure, brought to life by the Maharal of Prague out of clay to protect the Jewish community during times of persecution) and the Dybbuk (an evil spirit that lodges itself in the soul of a living person until exorcised) frequently appear in his work.
In the sixties, Aronson turned to sculpture. His work during this period is best exemplified by a magnificent 8’ x 4’ bronze door which now stands at the entrance to Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Foundation Conference Center for the Arts in Racine, Wisconsin. In the seventies and eighties, Aronson continued his work in pastel drawings, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring religion and the frailties of man's nature. During this time, in addition to a traveling retrospective exhibition and many one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston at the Pucker-Safrai Gallery on Newbury Street, Aronson won many awards and became a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. Two years ago he retired from teaching to work full-time in his studio in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
included in the catalog
Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art
Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974.
Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.
Selected Awards
1990, Certificate of Merit, National Academy of Design
1976, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Design
1976, Joseph Isidore Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
1976, Purchase Prize in Drawing, Albrecht Art Museum
1975, Isaac N. Maynard Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design
1973, Samuel F. B. Morse Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
1967, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Fine Arts
1967, Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design
1963, Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of Philadelphia
1961, 62, 63, Purchase Prize, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1960, John Siimon Guggenheim Fellowship
1958, Grant in Art, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1954, First Prize, Tupperware Annual Art Fund Award
1954, Grand Prize, Third Annual Boston Arts Festival
1953, Second Prize, Second Annual Boston Arts Festival
1952, Grand Prize, First Annual Boston Arts Festival
1946, Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
1946, Purchase Prize, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1944, First Popular Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art
1944, First Judge's Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art
Selected Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Bryn Mawr College
Brandeis University
Tupperware Museum, Orlando, Florida
DeCordova Museum
Museum of Modern Art Print Collection, New York
Atlanta University
Atlanta Art...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Horse I - Horse and Rider, Bronze and Artificial Stone on Steel Base
By Jesus Curia Perez
Located in Chicago, IL
Jesús Curiá Perez
Horse I
bronze and artificial stone
23h x 19.75w x 8.25d in
58.42h x 50.16w x 20.95d cm
JCP061
It is seemingly easier to identify with the ideas and thoughts of a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Margaret Roleke, Holy Wars, 2015, children's toys, spray enamel, wood panel
By Margaret Roleke
Located in Darien, CT
Roleke creates politically aware work. Her wall reliefs are composed of multitudes of plastic toys, oddly sexualized Disney characters and Happy Meal trinkets. Through investigation ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Found Objects, Spray Paint, Wood Panel
American Contemporary Wood Sculpture - Linda Stein, Branch Life 724
Located in New York, NY
This sculpture from Linda Stein’s I am the Environment series explores the artist's relationship to the earth and addresses the interconnectedness of all l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Face Mask, " Wood and Cowry Shells created in New Guinea circa 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This mask was created by an unknown artist from New Guinea. It depicts an elongated face with carved wood and cowry shells for eyes.
Mask: 29 x 8 in, incl...
Category
1940s Folk Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
Joy Fragment, Marble Dust, Resin
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
In working his way through the Louvre, The Vatican and other historic art museums, Richard MacDonald is particularly engaged by the ancient pieces and the fragments that remain of th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Repose - figurative bronze sculpture on wood base by Noa Bornstein
By Noa Bornstein
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
A bronze couple is comfortably laying down on a smooth wood base. Edition 3 of 5.
Artist Noa Bornstein describes herself as “a draw-er”. Many of her scu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Esclave Indien Bronze Torchère
By François-Christophe-Armand Toussaint
Located in New York, NY
Bronze oriental male figural torchère with bronze base and gilt patina. This figure exhibited at the Salon from 1850-51. In 1855 it appeared in the A.Collas and Barbedienne society c...
Category
Mid-19th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Surrealist Sculpture, "Nala"
By Cheryl Tall
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original sculpture by San Diego artist, Cheryl Tall. Its dimensions are 6" x 14.5" x 9". A Certificate of Authenticity will follow...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Shiva Standing On The Bull Nandi Wood Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
19th Century Shiva Standing On The Bull Nandi Wood Carving with polychrome paint.
27"hight, 12"width, 18"depth.
A rare figure of Shiva or Shiva standing on the bull Nandi. Bali, 1...
Category
19th Century Symbolist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
La Testa Terracotta Sculpture by Renato Bertelli
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Midcentury painted terracotta abstract figurative sculpture “La Testa” by Italian Futurist artist Renato Bertelli (1900-1974). Initialized “R. B. A-XI”.
Category
Mid-20th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Paint
"Vintage Alarm Clock in Custom Vinyl Slipcover"
Located in New York, NY
“My art explores the similarity between seemingly disparate cultures through the lens of my African American ancestry. I examine my family’s plight shaped by the history of racism a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Bull Moose
By Kent Ullberg
Located in Wimberley, TX
Bull Moose by Kent Ullberg is a commanding bronze sculpture that powerfully captures the raw strength and majestic presence of one of North America's most iconic wildlife species. Th...
Category
Early 2000s Naturalistic Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Modern Sculpture, The Family, Dancing, French German Artist Gerard Koch
Located in Surfside, FL
Untitled (Man, Woman and Child Dancing)
bronze on marble plinth base.
signed and numbered
Gerard Koch was a French Post War & Contemporary sculptor who was born in 1926.
Gérard K...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Vase with Owl, Koi and Deer
By Melanie Sherman
Located in Kansas City, MO
"Vase with Owl, Koi and Deer"
Hand Built & Painted Vase
Materials: Porcelain, Glaze, China Paint, Gold Luster, Gold Leaf, Flocking
Fired: Electric Kiln, Cone 6
Signed (bottom)
COA pr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf, Gold
Morning
By Carol Gold
Located in Loveland, CO
Morning by Carol Gold
Abstract Figurative Bronze 22x8.5x4.5" ed/10
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Carol Gold was born in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up on a dairy farm in western Massachusett...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Scottie
By Leo Sewell
Located in Greenwich, CT
Leo Sewell (b. 1945) is an American "found object" artist. His assemblages of recycled material are in over 40 museums and in private collections worldwide.
Sewell was born in Annap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Owl III, Patinated Bronze Sculpture by Antonovici
By Constantin Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
Antonovici was born in Neamt, Romania on February 18, 1911, and graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Iasi, Romania, in 1939. In 1940, Antonovici studied in Zagreb with the famous Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovici, until his arrest by Italian fascists...
Category
1940s Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Aliens
By Alan Strack
Located in New York, NY
This unique art piece is made of the original 35mm film of the movie, framed in an oak wood frame and lit with lit with RGB color changing LED light that can be controlled and light changed with smartphone app CONTROLLER for iOS and Android system.
“I started by working with the idea of the large film...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Oak, Film, LED Light
Blue Catfish Vase
By Sasha Makovkin
Located in Soquel, CA
A tall, modified columnar vase with incised catfish by Canadian-American ceramist Sasha Makovkin (1928-2003). Made of a white clay body. Glaze in varied shades of gray, blue and green. Signed and titled by the artist including trademark on the bottom: "Makovkin," "Blue Catfish." Dimensions: 14.25 Height x 4.75" Top x 5.13" Base.
Northern California potter Sasha Makovkin, originally from Vancouver, B.C. and of Russian descent, moved to California in 1954 to work at Heath Ceramics in Sausalito in order to get industrial experience. During the 1050s, Makovkin exhibited at the Association of San Francisco Potters and at the San Francisco Art Festivals.
Five years later after arriving in California, Makovkin took some samples of his ceramics to Gumps, a high-end department store in San Francisco. Impressed with his work, Gumps featured Makovkin’s work in the mail floor exhibits for the next three years. He had periods of apprentice with Marguerite Wildenhein at Pond Farm artists’ colony and with Ross Curtis. He also worked for Edith Heath at Heath Pottery...
Category
1990s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Lula - Incredible Gazelle Wall Sculpture from Up-Cycled Materials (Blue + White)
By Yulia Shtern
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Lulu" is a beautiful contemporary sculpture created by the Canadian artist Yulia Shtern. Her work depicts beautifully decaying remnants of species on our planet that are currently endangered. Shtern utilizes common household materials such as produce netting and colored cardboards in her up-cycled process to authenticate her message. An unfortunate truth of our current society that is often forgotten. Shtern creates these beautiful pieces to draw the viewer in and force them to engage with reality head-on. This work is eye-catching with a delicate texture and vibrant colors and would brighten up any room.
Artist's Inspiration: "Saudi Gazelle was native to the northern and western parts of the Arabian peninsula, preferring rocky habitats with shrubs and acacia trees. It lived alongside Mountain Gazelle and Arabian Sand Gazelle. The populations of these other two gazelle species of the Arabian peninsula have been severely diminished over the last few decades, and they both are classified as vulnerable. Gazelles were some of the most frequently depicted animals in the Neolithic art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Cardboard, Magazine Paper
Damas y Caballeros: Manolo Valdes
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Miami, FL
Manolo Valdes
Damas y Caballeros: Manolo Valdes, 2024
This pieces consists in a resin sculpture and a book case containing: one book of etchings by the artist and a study book of his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Dancing Nude Bronze of a Woman "Femme Dansant, 1910"
By Charles Cary Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
Dancing Nude Bronze by Charles Rumsey is one of many figures he depicted of women. He has usually been known for his sculptures of horses, polo players, wildlife and dogs, mainly due to the fact that he was an avid sportman, hunter, and renowned polo player. However, he often depicted women in flattering if not loving ways. Often in movement, sometimes in reflection, in small sizes such as this one of Dancing Nude and also in large outdoor sculptures...
Category
1910s Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Life Boat (Maquette) 7/50
By Kevin Box
Located in Napa, CA
Kevin Box is an internationally-renowned sculptor working in cast bronze, steel, and other metals. His work pushes the boundaries of the casting process and celebrates of the delicac...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
"Golek Puppet (Female), " Wood & Cloth created by Indonesia circa 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek Puppet was created by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 24 1/2" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can ...
Category
Early 20th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Bronze Sculpture Rabbi w Torah Judaica Figure American Boston Figural Modernist
By David Aronson
Located in Surfside, FL
Aronson, David 1923-
David Aronson, son of a rabbi, was born in Lithuania in 1923 and immigrated to America at the age of five. He settled in Boston, Massachusetts where he studied at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts under Karl Zerbe, a German painter well known in the early 1900s. Aronson later taught at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts for fourteen years and founded the School of Fine Art at Boston University where he is today a professor emeritus. An internationally renowned sculptor & painter, Aronson has won acclaim for his interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Talmud and Kabala. His best known works include bronze castings, encaustic paintings, and pastels. His work is included in many important public and private collections, and has been shown in several museum retrospectives around the country. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th century American artists.
At twenty-two David Aronson had his first one-man show at New York's Niveau Gallery. The next year, six of his Christological paintings were included in the Fourteen Americans exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art where Aronson’s work was included alongside abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell and Isamu Noguchi. In the 1950s, Aronson turned more toward his Jewish heritage for the inspiration for his art. Folklore as well as Kabalistic and other transcendental writings influenced his work greatly. The Golem (a legendary figure, brought to life by the Maharal of Prague out of clay to protect the Jewish community during times of persecution) and the Dybbuk (an evil spirit that lodges itself in the soul of a living person until exorcised) frequently appear in his work.
In the sixties, Aronson turned to sculpture. His work during this period is best exemplified by a magnificent 8’ x 4’ bronze door which now stands at the entrance to Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Foundation Conference Center for the Arts in Racine, Wisconsin. In the seventies and eighties, Aronson continued his work in pastel drawings, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring religion and the frailties of man's nature. During this time, in addition to a traveling retrospective exhibition and many one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston at the Pucker-Safrai Gallery on Newbury Street, Aronson won many awards and became a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. Two years ago he retired from teaching to work full-time in his studio in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
included in the catalog
Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art
Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974.
Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.
Selected Awards
1990, Certificate of Merit, National Academy of Design
1976, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Design
1976, Joseph Isidore Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
1976, Purchase Prize in Drawing, Albrecht Art Museum
1975, Isaac N. Maynard Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design
1973, Samuel F. B. Morse Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
1967, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Fine Arts
1967, Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design
1963, Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of Philadelphia
1961, 62, 63, Purchase Prize, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1960, John Siimon Guggenheim Fellowship
1958, Grant in Art, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1954, First Prize, Tupperware Annual Art Fund Award
1954, Grand Prize, Third Annual Boston Arts Festival
1953, Second Prize, Second Annual Boston Arts Festival
1952, Grand Prize, First Annual Boston Arts Festival
1946, Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
1946, Purchase Prize, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1944, First Popular Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art
1944, First Judge's Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art
Selected Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Bryn Mawr College
Brandeis University
Tupperware Museum, Orlando, Florida
DeCordova Museum
Museum of Modern Art Print Collection, New York
Atlanta University
Atlanta Art...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Guitarist
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ULISES JIMENEZ
"GUITARIST"
WOOD, SIGNED
COSTA RICA, C.2005
40 INCHES
Ulises Jiménez Obregón was born in La Mansion de Nicoya, Costa Rica, in November 1953.
He studied Pl...
Category
Early 2000s Cubist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Bronze Sculpture Abstract Brutalist Goat or Ram WPA Artist Mounted on Base
By Benedict Michael Tatti
Located in Surfside, FL
Benedict Tatti (1917-1993) worked in New York city as a sculptor, painter, educator, and video artist. He studied stone and wood carving under Louis Slobodkin at the Roerich Museum. He later attended the Leonardo da Vinci School of Art studying under Attilio Piccirelli. In l939 he taught adult classes with the Teachers Project of the WPA and attended the Art Students League for three and a half years on full scholarship. He studied under William Zorach and Ossip Zadkine and later became Zorach’s assistant. Later in his career, he attended the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts. During World War II, Tatti served in the United States Army Air Force, where he spent three years assigned to variety of projects. In 1948, Benedict Tatti married Adele Rosenberg in New York City.
Throughout his career, Tatti continuously experimented with various media. From 1952-1963, Tatti executed sculptural models of architectural and consumer products for the industrial designers, Raymond Loewy Associates; later he became a color consultant for the firm. In the 1960s, influenced by the Abstract Expressionists, Tatti turned from carving directly in wood and stone to creating assemblage architecture sculptures, using bronze metal and other industrial materials.
He was included in the important show "Aspects de la Sculpture Americaine", at Galerie Claude Bernard Paris, France, in October 1960 along with Ibram Lassaw, Theodore Roszak, David Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Danese Corey, Dorothy Dehner, Lin Emery, Lily Ente, David Hayes, Louise Nevelson, Tony Rosenthal, Richard Stankiewicz, Sam Szafran...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Small All Together Now 11" (One Baaad) 292/500
By Giuseppe Palumbo
Located in Napa, CA
Bronze sculpture, Edition 292 of 500
Giuseppe Palumbo's bronze sculptures are textural, warm, spirited works that capture the essence of each being he portrays. His anthropomorphic ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Troublemaker, Bolting Horse without Rider
Located in Brookville, NY
Kathleen Friedenberg began her professional career as a veterinary surgeon in England, and came to the United States, on a Thouron scholarship, studying human and equine orthopaedics...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
David Hostetler Female Bronze Sculpture Figurative Art Deco Brown
By David Hostetler
Located in Nantucket, MA
David Hostetler cast this bronze from an original wood carving, as most of his bronzes originate. This sculpture was the original model for unique ver...
Category
2010s Art Deco Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Field of Blue
Located in Wimberley, TX
George W. Lundeen's Field of Blue is a poignant bronze sculpture that honors the sacrifices of military families with emotional depth. Standing 23 inches high, this limited-edition p...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cassandra
By Carol Gold
Located in Loveland, CO
Cassandra by Carol Gold
Abstract Figurative Portrait
Bronze 12" x 3.5" x 5" ed/15
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Carol Gold was born in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up on a dairy farm in weste...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Ceramic #42" 2017 original handmade signed unique Talavera ceramic 14x14x2in
By Luis Miguel Valdes
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
"Ceramic #42", 2017
Ceramic in Uriarte's Talavera, Puebla, Mexico
34.5 x 34.5 x 3.6 cm. (13.6 x 13.6 x 1.5 in.)
Hand-signed by author
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Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Abstract Relief: flat sculpture for wall or shelf, painted
By Ava Blitz
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an abstract painted plaster cast relief sculpture designed to be mounted directly to the wall or installed on a shelf. It is reminiscent
of a fossil or natural or scientific curiosity in a "Wunderkammer," or historical cabinet of curiosities. It is signed on the back.
Ava Blitz...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Acrylic
Fallow Deer
By Kent Ullberg
Located in Wimberley, TX
Kent Ullberg's Fallow Deer is an exquisite bronze sculpture that captures the delicate grace and poise of the fallow deer. Measuring 8 inches in height, 6.75 inches in width, and 3 i...
Category
Early 2000s Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Birds
By David Gerstein
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original one of a kind hand carved and painting wall sculpture by Israeli artist David Gerstein.
David Gerstein is an Israeli painter and sculptor. He began as a figurative pai...
Category
1990s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Oil, Wood
"Hemba Stool-Monkeys Zaire, " Carved Wood created circa 1900-1920 in Africa
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Hemba Stool-Monkeys Zaire" is a carved wood stool created in Africa circa 1900-1920. The base of the stool is domed in the middle a column goes upwards to...
Category
Early 20th Century Tribal Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
