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"The true story of Vinnie Ream's courage and persistence in the service of art, and in the service of a friend."--Dust jacket, front flap. This book tells the story of Vinnie Ream, an aspiring artist living in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War, who gained a reputation as a sculptor and succeeded in persuading President Abraham Lincoln to sit for her.
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Set in a ghost town in California's Mojave Desert, Seeing Into Stone: A Sculptor's Journey is a memoir about the author's struggle with flaws in her vision, her carvings and her new marriage as she searches for her identity as an artist. Through her fifteen-year apprenticeship with Gordon Newell, a wise and patient stone sculptor, she learns that carving stone and wood can be understood as a metaphor for life: go with the grain and not against it;...
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"Have you ever wondered exactly what your favorite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming illustrated series of books to keep and collect, created in full collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can see what they saw and be inspired to create your own artworks too. In What the Artist Saw: Louise Bourgeois, meet famous French American painter, printmaker, and sculptor Louise Bourgeois....
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For over twenty years I sculpted in wood and when a fire destroyed the work, my career as a carver came to an abrupt end. Even though friends and family assured me I'd soon resume carving, I knew I wouldn't for, besides the physical loss of the pieces, the fire also effectively stifled my creative impulse. I felt myself physically stripped, sliding about on a glassy surface with no grips to grab, no toe holds to catch, but falling, sliding, blaming...
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This is the story of how a farmboy became America's foremost sculptor. After failing at academics, Dan was working the family farm when he idly carved a turnip into a frog and discovered what he was meant to do. Sweeney's swift prose and Fields's evocative illustrations capture the single-minded determination with which Dan taught himself to sculpt and launched his career with the famous Minuteman Statue in his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts....