"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The sculpting process for Shona artists starts by locating a stone and excavating it before sketching a rough shape in charcoal. The sculptor then begins to chip away at the stone using a chisel and hammer. #ZimbabweSculpture #Zimbabwe #Sculpture
This tweet was posted on September 12, 2022.