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"A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance." #Balenciaga This tweet was posted on December 21, 2016.

Arnaldo Pomodoro first trained as an architect and was also a jewelry designer prior to becoming a sculptor. #ArnaldoPomodoro #PublicArt This tweet was posted on July 12, 2023.

Born in Harare, Shona sculptor Wonder Mazhindu learned to carve from his brother Picket Mazhindu Bumhira. After completing his education in 1999, he focused on stone carving and developed a distinctive style. #ZimbabweSculpture This tweet was posted on June 10, 2022.

Born in Northern California and raised in Italy, jeweler and sculptor Peter Macchiarini (1909–2001) trained at the Art Academy in Pietrasanta in marble carving and ornamental art. This image was posted on January 19, 2017. #midcentury #modern #design #petermacchiarini #sfartist #sfhistory#sfarthistory

Born in Northern California, jeweler and sculptor Peter Macchiarini, began a career in the metal arts in 1938. #AModernApproach This tweet was posted on January 19, 2017.

Cast in Bronze: The Sculpture of Arthur Putnam

This nonaviation exhibition was on display between November 2003 and May 2004 in the A-02 International South Cases gallery, located in International Terminal

Decorative arts take many shapes, from lighting and furniture, to serving utensils, storage vessels, and other artistically rendered housewares. This image was posted on December 27, 2016.

Defined by its reverence for nature and emphasis on organic design, Art Nouveau influenced graphic arts, architecture, interior design, and decorative arts. This image was posted on October 06, 2018. #caticons #catsofinstagram #cats #mewseum #caticon #cat #cats #artnouveau #royaldoulton #britain #earthenware #lambeth #hannahbarlow #colbalt #pottery #ceramics #caturday #stoneware #pitcher #vase

Dorr Bothwell (1902–2000) was a Symbolist painter, printmaker, and art teacher who experimented with a variety of media and artistic ideas. This image was posted on September 20, 2022. #californiamodernistwomen #dorrbothwell #california #womenartists #modernism

Dorr Bothwell was a Symbolist painter, printmaker, and art teacher who experimented with a variety of media and artistic ideas. She moved to San Diego as a young girl and took art lessons with the painter and sculptor Anna Marie Valentien. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #DorrBothwell This tweet was posted on September 20, 2022.

Happy Birthday Isamu Noguchi, who was born on this day in 1904 in Los Angeles, California. In 2018, SFO Museum and the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum presented an exhibition on the famed industrial designer and sculptor, “Isamu Noguchi: Inside and Out”. #IsamuNoguchi This tweet was posted on November 17, 2022.

Happy Birthday to the late Isamu Noguchi, who was born on this day in 1904 in Los Angeles, California. This image was posted on November 17, 2022. #isamunoguchi #noguchi

In 1952, following a year living in Mexico, Mary Fuller McChesney (1922 – 2022) and her husband, Abstract Expressionist painter, Robert McChesney (1913–2008), hand-built a small home and two studios on two acres atop Sonoma Mountain near Petaluma, California. This image was posted on July 08, 2022. #californiamodernistwomen #california #womenartists #modernism

Industrial designers refined and streamlined an array of domestic items during the mid-twentieth-century. This image was posted on November 02, 2016. #isamunoguchi #bakelite #industrial #industrialdesign #plastic #zenith

Kent was one of San Francisco’s leading surrealistic sculptors in the 1950s & known for her abstract & biomorphic carvings. #AModernApproach This tweet was posted on December 27, 2016.

Limited edition, bronze animal sculptures were a specialty of many Art Nouveau artists. This image was posted on November 01, 2018. #caticons #catsofinstagram #cats #mewseum #caticon #cat #leonunderwood #modernist #sculptor #sculpture #rembrandtbugatti

Marguerite Wildenhain enrolled in the Berlin School of Fine and Applied Arts where she studied drawing and sculpture. This image was posted on August 10, 2016.

Mary Fuller McChesney (1922 – 2022) was a largely self-taught sculptor and art historian. This image was posted on June 28, 2022. #californiamodernistwomen #california #womenartists #modernism

Mary Fuller McChesney was a largely self-taught sculptor and art historian. After studying philosophy at the @UCBerkeley, she embarked on a more dexterous pursuit and apprenticed with potter William Bragdon at California Faience in Berkeley. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on June 28, 2022.

Murat Brièrre (1938–88) was the first to study under visionary artist Georges Liautaud (1899–1991), and he quickly gained recognition as one of the preeminent metal sculptors of Haiti. #HaitianMetal This tweet was posted on February 28, 2024.

Obert Mukumbi’s brother Kennedy Musekiwa, an accomplished sculptor, encouraged him to work in stone at the young age of twelve to express his feelings and earn a respectable living. He gained further training from sculptor Richard Magwenzi. #ZimbabweSculpture This tweet was posted on October 28, 2022.

Painter and sculptor Henri Marie-Rose had two residencies at #Recology, in 2000 and in 2006 (when he… http://t.co/2fMnzZ2cRI This tweet was posted on July 16, 2013.

Professional sculptor Tererai Murambatsvina (b. 1973) comes from the Masvingo region of Zimbabwe. While attending primary and secondary school, he felt drawn to art and craft. #ZimbabweSculpture #TereraiMurambatsvina This tweet was posted on May 13, 2022.

Professional sculptor Tererai Murambatsvina (b. This image was posted on May 13, 2022. #zimbabwesculpture #zimbabwe #sculpture #tereraimurambatsvina

Rebecca de Quin is drawn to the vast, artistic potential offered by working with silver. This image was posted on March 07, 2019. #britishsilver #rebeccadequin #sterling #sterlingsilver #silverdesign #silver #silversmith #silversmithing

Rembrandt #Bugatti (1884–1916), the son of furniture designer Carlo Bugatti (1856–1940) and younger brother to automobile maker Ettore Bugatti (1881–1947), was one of the most celebrated #animal #sculptors of the early 20th century. #Caticons This tweet was posted on October 31, 2018.

Ruth Asawa formed lifelike, semi-transparent metal sculpture from innovative materials such as looped or tied metal wire. An internationally renowned sculptor, she also created public art and fountains from bronze and stainless steel.#CaliforniaModernistWomen #RuthAsawa This tweet was posted on July 11, 2023.

SFO Museum is saddened to hear that the sculptor and art historian Mary Fuller McChesney, passed away recently at 99 years old. Read more about Mary Fuller McChesney’s amazing life in her New York Times obituary: https://t.co/Z1toCsUbcl This tweet was posted on July 10, 2022.

Sculptor Isamu Noguchi designed the “Radio Nurse” speaker for Zenith as the world’s first baby monitor made of Bakelite. #AModernApproach This tweet was posted on November 02, 2016.

Thank you so much to the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley for lending us objects to support our exhibition “Extra ‘O’”. This image was posted on August 25, 2020. #extrao #museumfromhome #ibibio