American, 20th century, female.
Born 1894, in Mount Healthy (Ohio), according to some sources, in Widdern (Germany).
Sculptor.
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American, 20th century, male.
Born 24 January 1940, in New York.
Painter, sculptor, performance artist, video artist. Multimedia.
Body Art, Conceptual Art.
Vito Acconci was born in the Bronx, New York and lives and works in Brooklyn. He studied at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts and at the University of Iowa. He has taught in various art schools and universities and in particular at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University and the Parsons School of Design in New York....
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American, 19th century, male.
Born c. 1835, near Hollis (Maine); died 1906, in New York.
Sculptor.
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American, 20th century, male.
Born 11 May 1933, in Knoxville (Iowa).
Sculptor.
Arlo Acton studied at the California Institute of Arts. He exhibited in San Francisco in 1962 and was selected for the 1963 Biennale des Jeunes in Paris. He also became a teacher at the University of California in Berkeley in ...
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American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 28 January 1858, in West Concord; died 1945.
Sculptor.
Herbert Adams attended the Massachusetts Normal School of Art in Boston and completed his studies with Mercié in Paris. During his five years in Paris he sculpted his first marble bust, that of his fiancée, Miss Adeline V. Pond. This work earned him a reputation for elegant sculpture and was the start of his fame. He became a member of the Académie Nationale de Dessin. Adams exhibited in Paris, where in ...
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Canadian First Nations (Oji-Cree), 20th century, female.
Born 28 March 1971, in Yorkton (Saskatchewan).
Installation artist, ceramicist, photographer, sculptor, printmaker.
KC Adams studied at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec, where she received her BFA in Studio Arts in 1998. Her artistic practice was further developed through artists’ residencies in Canada, at institutions in Banff, Charlottetown and Winnipeg. During her ...
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American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 3 August 1955, in Bristol (Pennsylvania).
Painter, sculptor, video artist, installation artist.
Lisa Adams studied at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1976; Scripps College, Claremont, California, obtaining a BA in 1977; and Claremont Graduate University, receiving an MFA in ...
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American, 20th century, male.
Born 1913, in New York; died 1993.
Sculptor, assemblage artist.
Peter Agostini studied at the Leonardo da Vinci School in New York. He took part in international collective exhibitions such as the 1963 São Paulo Biennale. After 1960 he held numerous solo exhibitions in New York and a few in Chicago. He taught at Colombia University ...
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American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 8 May 1878, in San Francisco; died 1949, in New York.
Sculptor. Figures. Monuments, equestrian groups.
Robert Ingersolt Aitken studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Sculpture in San Francisco, where he later became a teacher, replacing the sculptor of sporting subjects, Douglas Tilden. He started exhibiting in ...
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American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1864, in Clarendon (New York); died 1926, in Mont Mikeno or Kabale, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo).
Sculptor, photographer. Animals.
Carl Ethan Akeley began working as a taxidermist at the age of 17 at Ward's Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, New York. He later became associate curator at the Roosevelt American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he laid out the African rooms and the Hall of African Mammals was named after him. On trips to Africa for the museum, Akeley observed animals closely. In ...
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American, 19th century, male.
Born 10 July 1825, in Sacoarapa (Maine); died 21 May 1861, in Philadelphia.
Sculptor.
Benjamin Akers' father, a wood turner, was his first teacher. He studied sculpture in Boston and in 1850 opened a studio in Portland in collaboration with the painter Tilton. He carved busts of ...
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American, 19th century, male.
Born 15 November 1836, near Hollis (Maine); died 16 September 1906, in New York.
Sculptor, draughtsman. Busts.
Charles Akers' brother, Benjamin Akers, was his teacher in Rome from 1857 to 1858. He sculpted a large number of busts and medallions of famous men, including ...
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American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1966, in New York.
Sculptor, painter, installation artist. Murals.
Ricci Albenda studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, including courses in architecture, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988. His interest in architecture (as well as in graphic design and physics) figures prominently in his installation art, in which he creates environments which challenge the viewer's spatial perceptions. He uses such materials as fibreglass, wallboard, aluminium and acrylic paint. In his exhibition ...
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American, 20th century, male.
Born 1891, in Waverly (Iowa).
Sculptor.
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American, 20th century, male.
Born 1897, in Chicago; died 1983, in Warrenville (Illinois).
Sculptor.
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American, 20th century, male.
Born 1925, in Elizabethville (New Jersey).
Sculptor. Figures.
Kosta Alex made his first sculpture at the age of 15 and the following year, 1941, he appeared as part of a group at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. In ...
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American, 20th century, male.
Born 1939, in Los Angeles.
Sculptor, painter, collage artist.
Minimal Art, Finish Fetish, Light and Space.
Peter Alexander studied at the University of Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1962, the Architectural Association of London from 1960 to 1962, and the University of California ...
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American, 20th century, male.
Born 1888, in North Attleboro (Massachusetts); died 1961.
Sculptor. Portraits, allegorical subjects. Low reliefs.
Frederick Warren Allen made an allegorical group sculpture for the New York County Court depicting the ideals of justice, courage and wisdom.
New York, 30 Nov 1989...
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American, 20th century, male.
Born 1884, in Orange (New Jersey); died 1915, in Los Angeles.
Sculptor.
