Cleveland - Figurative Sculptures

Kristen Newell (American, b. 1989) Venus with Koalas in Her Hair, 2020 Glazed stoneware and acrylic Signed and dated on bottom 14 x 12 x 6 inches Kristen Newell was born in a small town on the coast of Massachusetts, where from a very early age, she demonstrated a strong propensity for the arts. Important additional inspiration came from her family and from the family of a childhood friend, where Kristen found herself surrounded by the work of Paul Manship, her friend’s grandfather and one of America’s greatest sculptors. With increased focus on her art, along with winning numerous awards throughout high school, Newell eagerly enrolled in the arts program at University of Vermont and augmented her studies with a valuable year at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Upon graduation, Newell moved back to Cleveland to begin her art career and started participating in group shows, including River Gallery and the Ohio State...

Thelma Frazier Winter (American, 1903-1977) Woman and Child, c. 1935 Glazed stoneware, painted plaster 14 x 7 x 5.875 inches Thelma Frazier Wint...

From the signed and numbered edition of 6. James Brown's artwork can be found on the collections of: Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris Musee Cantini, Marse...

Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945) Nude Walking, 1930 Bronze Signed and dated on base 17 x 9 x 4 inches Born in Poland March 1, 1891, figurative sculptor Max Kalish came to the United States in 1894, his family settling in Ohio. A talented youth, Kalish enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place award for modeling the figure during studies with Herman Matzen. Kalish went to New York City following graduation, studying with Isidore Konti and Herbert Adams...

Burmese School, 19th Century Buddha Head of the Shan (Tai Yai) Style Wood with red lacquered pigment 25 x 13 x 10 inches dry lacquer form with finely sculpted features such as the e...

Louis Armand Bardery (French, 1879-1952) Muse of Dance Bronze with green and brown patination Signed and stamped with foundry mark 18 x 6 inches Louis Armand Bardery was a student o...

Jules Edmond Masson (French, 1871–1932) Bronze Figure of a Lurcher Dog, 1930 Bronze with brownish green patination, on a fitted stone base The base inset with a bronze plaque reading...

David Deming (American, 20th Century) Contortion Nude Bronze Signed on base 14 x 12 x 9 inches David Deming is a nationally recognized contemporary Ameri...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Walter Sinz (American, 1881-1966) Mother and Child, 1949 Plaster Signed and dated on base 23.5 x 6 x 9 inches Walter A. Sinz was an American sculptor born in Cleveland, Ohio on Jul...

F. Luis Mora (American, 1874-1940) Native American, c. 1930s Ceramic Stamped on bottom, Cowan Pottery 9 x 7 x 5 inches Francis Luis Mora was one of the better-known American artists...

William Mozart McVey (American, 1905-1995) Bubble Bubble Cast bronze with brown patina Signed on back 6.5 x 5 x 2.25 inches 'Double, double toil and tro...

Edris Eckhardt (American, 1905-1998) Vernal Equinox, c. 1975 Bronze Signed on base 16.5 x 4 x 3 inches Born in Cleveland, Ohio January 28, 1905, Edris was given the name Edythe Alin...

Dog in the style of Tang/Sancai, Early 20th Century Drip glaze ceramic 9.5 x 13 inches Sancai is a versatile type of decoration on Chinese pottery using glazes or slip, predominantl...

Max Sandor (Austrian, 1897-1945) Native American Chief, 20th Century Bronze Signed on base 11 x 6 x 4.5 inches

William Zorach (American 1891-1966) First Steps, 1918 Bronze 8.5 x 5 x 4 inches, including base Born in 1887 in Lithuania, William Zorach immigrated with his family to the United States when he was just four years old, settling in Cleveland, Ohio. Zorach displayed an exceptional artistic talent at a young age and, at the recommendation of his seventh-grade teacher, began studying lithography at night at the Cleveland School of Art. It was not long before he was apprenticing at a lithography company in Cleveland. It was there that he realized he wanted to become an artist - to escape the commercial end of the field in which he was suddenly immersed. In 1907, Zorach saved enough money to move to New York and study art at the National Academy of Design, where he received several awards for his paintings and drawings. He continued his studies in Paris in 1910 at La Palette. This year abroad would turn out to be quite fruitful because in Paris he was greatly influenced by the Cubist and Fauvist movements and had several paintings exhibited at the Salon d'Automme. This influence and subsequent success fueled his career back in the states where he was honored with his first one-man exhibition. Due to this new-found stability, he married a young woman he met at school in Paris, and they moved to New York and set up a studio. Shortly after, their work was accepted into the famous 1913 Armory Show. For the next nine years, Zorach continued to think of himself as a painter, although he had already begun to experiment in sculpting. He was experiencing modest success with his painting and was therefore reluctant to abandon it completely. However, he was impelled toward sculpting, and in 1922, he painted his last oil. Zorach's involvement with sculpture began largely be accident. While he was working on a series of wood-block prints, Zorach suddenly became more interested in the butternut panel than the print and turned the panel into a carved relief. With no formal training as a sculptor, Zorach's first sculptures were of wood and his carving tools were primitive, such as a jack-knife. I n fact, his early works have a certain stylized look, suggesting the influence of various primitive arts such as African and American folk. Zorach found his sculptural direction by instinct, but was not unaware of what other sculptors were doing, both here and abroad. He soon allied himself with a growing number of modern sculptors who believed in the esthetic necessity of carving their own designs directly in the block of stone or wood rather than modeling them in clay. From the beginning he found a deep satisfaction in the slow and patient process of freeing the image from its imprisoning block, watching the forms emerge and appear. "The actual resistance of tough material is a wonderful guide," Zorach said in a lecture on direct sculpture in 1930. The sculptor "cannot make changes easily, there is no putting back tomorrow what was cut away today. His senses are constantly alert. If something goes wrong there is the struggle to right the rhythm. And slowly the vision grows as the work progresses." Zorach also found that the material itself had a constantly modifying effect on the artist's vision. The grain of the wood, the markings in the stone, the shape of the log or boulder all set limits and suggested possibilities. He was always sensitive to the characteristic qualities of his material and occasionally let them play a major role in determining his forms. In works such as these, the feel of the original material is preserved in the finished piece and is often heightened by leaving parts of the original surface untouched and other areas roughly marked by the sculptors tools...

Walter Sinz (American, 1881-1966) Zinnia, c. 1930 Plaster Signed on base 9 x 8 x 4 inches Walter A. Sinz was an American sculptor born in Cleveland, Ohio on July 13, 1881. Sinz’s fa...

18th Century Italian Carved Neoclassical Semi Nude Female Busts Wood affixed to wood plinths "Leone Della Torra / Italy Country of Origin" labels on b...

Isidore Romain Boitel (French, 1812 - 1861) "Jeune fille aux colombes et à la corbeille de fleurs". Young girl with doves and basket of flowers Bronze ...

Edwin Willard Deming (American, 1860-1942) Man with Flute and Cougar Cast bronze sculpture with golden brown patina Signed, numbered 9/100, with Fenn F...

Kristen Newell (American, b. 1989) Four Three Two One, 2015 Stoneware, porcelain and acrylic Signed and dated on bottom 16 x 15 x 14 inches Kristen Newell was born in a small town on the coast of Massachusetts, where from a very early age, she demonstrated a strong propensity for the arts. Important additional inspiration came from her family and from the family of a childhood friend, where Kristen found herself surrounded by the work of Paul Manship, her friend’s grandfather and one of America’s greatest sculptors. With increased focus on her art, along with winning numerous awards throughout high school, Newell eagerly enrolled in the arts program at University of Vermont and augmented her studies with a valuable year at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Upon graduation, Newell moved back to Cleveland to begin her art career and started participating in group shows, including River Gallery and the Ohio State...

A limited edition bronze Horse on a black marble base. From the limited edition of 8. Signed 1/8 Paula Blackman has been a bronze sculptor for 30 years working in Cleveland Ohio. ...

Devotion by Nguyen Tuan The Vietnamese master sculptor Nguyen Tuan is internationally known for his seemingly “weightless” figurative sculpture merging Western techniques with trad...

Bronze #80 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-si...

Inspiration by Nguyen Tuan The Vietnamese master sculptor Nguyen Tuan is internationally known for his seemingly “weightless” figurative sculpture merging Western techniques with t...

Melody by Nguyen Tuan The Vietnamese master sculptor Nguyen Tuan is internationally known for his seemingly “weightless” figurative sculpture merging Western techniques with tradit...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Bronze #105 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-s...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Bronze #67 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-si...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...

Bronze #85 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-si...

Bronze #68 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-si...

Bronze #54 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-si...

Cast Iron #86 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life...

Embrace by Nguyen Tuan The Vietnamese master sculptor Nguyen Tuan is internationally known for his seemingly “weightless” figurative sculpture merging Western techniques with tradi...

Contemplation by Nguyen Tuan The Vietnamese master sculptor Nguyen Tuan is internationally known for his seemingly “weightless” figurative sculpture merging Western techniques with...