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Pair of solid brass minimalist candlesticks by Canadian designer Martha Sturdy. The pair features a square tube stem on a square base. Labeled Martha Sturdy. Dimensions Each candle...

Pair of solid brass minimalist candlesticks by Canadian designer Martha Sturdy. The pair features a square tube stem on a square base. Labeled Martha Sturdy. Dimensions Each candle...

This is an original Martha Sturdy vase, she is a well known listed Canadian artist who creates these handmade masterpieces that are very collectible. Her signature brass artist tag i...

A truly exceptional, signed early pair of monumental Martha Sturdy earrings—arguably the most recognizable and collectible form she ever created. Dating from the mid-1980s Vancouver ...

Vintage Martha Sturdy Blackened Gilt Bronze Patinated Bowl, Signed Offered is an organic modern blackened and gilt bronze patinated bowl by Canadian sculptor and jewelry designer M...

A museum-worthy example of early Martha Sturdy wearable art, this fully signed geometric charm bracelet dates to the mid-1980s, a period when Sturdy’s bold sculptural jewelry electri...

This powerful piece by Martha Sturdy, created specifically for B&B Italia, is a striking exploration of texture and form. Known for her unique abstract works, Sturdy's artistic caree...

Set Of gold whistler round lamp with silk shade by Studio Sturdy This classic and elegant design is made form hand cast resin and a beautiful brass neck & finial finished with our...

Sleek modern dark amber brown tone acrylic vessel by Studio Nova, circa 1980's. This large sculptural rectangular block form vase is molded from translucent resin / acrylic which all...

Ruth Todd (1909-2006, American Woman Artist) one of Colorado’s most prominent avant-garde artists and played a significant role in Colorado’s art history. Known for painting and collage. Still life with lemon and banana on kitchen table. Ruth Thomas Todd was born in 1909 in Sanford, North Carolina. She arrived in New York City in the 1930s where she began her career as a fashion model supporting herself as she attended classes at the Art Students League. For reasons of health she moved to Colorado Springs to treat her condition. During her recuperation she started to draw and studied under famous American abstract painter Robert Motherwell, who was teaching at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at the time. By the 1950s, her career as an abstract expressionist painter was blooming. She was one of Colorado’s most visible and avant-garde artists. Ruth married Littleton Todd, a poet and a woodworker. In 1953, Todd traveled to Europe (Paris, France) to study art and to paint. Littleton Todd opened a design studio in Denver where he manufactured and sold modern furniture. She would incorporate sawdust and other found materials from the workshop imbued with oil paint into her abstract work to create unique topographies and patterns. She showed at numerous Gilpin County Art Exhibitions, the Denver Art Museum, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Women’s College, the University of Colorado, Boulder, the Colorado State Fair, and the Jewish Community Center. Among the Colorado Modernists that she exhibited with were Vance Kirkland, Frank Vavra, Martha Epp, Ardis Sturdy...