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George Stanley (April 26, 1903–1973) [ 1 ] is an American sculptor . He designed the Academy Award of Merit , or Oscar, as well as sculpting the Muse Statue at the Hollywood Bowl . Early Life Stanley was born in Acadia Parish, Louisiana in the year 1903. He then moved as a child to California and spent his youth there in the city of Watsonville . Upon graduation from high school Stanley proceeded to study sculpture at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1923 to 1926. He also taught at this school from 1926-1942. Stanley also taught briefly at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts . During his life he completed many public arts works including work for schools such as the Long Beach Polytechnic High School , as well as works for private patrons. Sculpting Career Stanley sculpted a statue of Sir Isaac Newton located at the Griffith Observatory , completed in 1934. This statue was part of a larger work known as the Astronomer's Monument . This work was a public proj...

Robert Graham (August 19, 1938 – December 27, 2008) was a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States . His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure and are featured in public places across America. Graham was born in Mexico City , Mexico on Aug. 19, 1938, to Roberto Pena and Adeline Graham. Roberto Pena died when his son was six years old, and the boy, his mother Adeline, his grandmother Ana, and his aunt Mercedes left Mexico and moved to San Jose, California . Robert Graham began his formal art training at San Jose State University . [1] He continued his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in California , finishing in 1964. Within five years he had one-man exhibitions of his sculpture at important contemporary art galleries in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York City, London, Cologne, and Essen, Germany. He lived in London for a period before settling in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. His first solo exhibition in a museum was at the Dallas Muse...

Jacques Lipchitz (August 22 [ O.S. August 10] 1891 [1] – May 16, 1973) was a Cubist sculptor. Jacques Lipchitz was born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz , in a Litvak family, son of a building contractor in Druskininkai , Lithuania , then within the Russian Empire . At first, under the influence of his father, he studied engineering, but soon after, supported by his mother he moved to Paris (1909) to study at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian . It was there, in the artistic communities of Montmartre and Montparnasse , that he joined a group of artists that included Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso as well as where his friend, Amedeo Modigliani , painted Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz . Living in this environment, Lipchitz soon began to create Cubist sculpture . In 1912 he exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon d'Automne with his first solo show held at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie L’Effort Moderne in Paris in 1920. In 1922 he was ...

Ossip Zadkine ( Russian : Осип Цадкин ; July 14, 1890 – November 25, 1967) was a Belarusian-born artist who lived in France . He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs . Early years and career Zadkine was born as Yossel Aronovich Tsadkin ( Russian : Иосель Аронович Цадкин ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in Vitebsk (now Belarus , then part of the Russian Empire ). His father was Jewish and had converted to the Russian Orthodox religion; his mother was of Scottish ancestry. [ 3 ] After attending art school in London , Zadkine settled in Paris about 1910. There he became part of the new Cubist movement (1914-1925). He later developed his own style, one that was strongly influenced by African art. Zadkine served as a stretcher-bearer in the French Army during World War I , and was wounded in action. He spent the World War II years in America . His best-known work is probably the sculpture "The Destroyed City" (1951-1953), represents a man w...

From the beginning of Berger's essay, "Peter Peri": I knew about Peter Peri from 1947 onwards. At that time he lived in Hampstead and I used to pass his garden where he displayed his sculptures. I was an art student just out of the Army. The sculptures impressed me not so much because of their quality -- at that time many other things interested me more than art -- but because of their strangeness. They were foreign looking. I remember arguing with my friends about them. They said they were crude and coarse. I defended them because I sensed that they were the work of somebody totally different from us. *** Ladislas Weisz was born June 13, 1899 in Budapest , Hungary . Antisemitism caused his family to change their name to the more Hungarian "Péri". When he moved to Germany, he was known as Laszlo Péri . After he moved to England, he adopted the name " Peter Peri ". His grandson, born in 1971, an artist, also has the name Peter Peri . Career...