Bronze Sculpture James Metcalf

Large and interesting bronze sculpture representing a woman's foot. Signed Dimension without base: 61 cm / 25 Dimensions with base: 69 cm / 25 cm Biography: James Mecalf is an American sculptor born in New York in 1925. He left for Europe with his parents in 1937 and began to take an interest in Various mediaeval techniques. He is very interested in archaic civilizations and is passionate about ancient Greece after meeting the poet Robert Graves. He studied at the Dayton Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. From 1956 to 1957, he set up his studio in Paris, impasse Ronsin, opposite that of Constantin Brancusi who encouraged him. He frequents François Xavier and Claude Lalanne. He traveled to Mexico and in 1966 obtained an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Mexico City. In 1973 he opened with his wife the Mexican sculptor Ane Pellicer art school Adolfo Best Maugard School of Arts in Crafts. Personal Exhibitions: 1958 Galerie Jc de Chaudun Nice -1963Galerie Europe Paris -1964 Albert Loeb Gallery New York 2001 James Gat Gallery New York Collective Exhibitions Collective Exhibitions - 1952 - Goldsmith's Hall, London - 1955 - 3rd Biennale Spanish-American Art, Barcelona - 1961 - International Exhibition of Sculpture, Paris - 1963 - News Sculpture, Paris, Documenta III, Kassel - 1964 - Whitney Museum of American Art. - 1964 - The Surrealist Woman, The Gallery of the Eye, Paris - 2001 - James Metcalf, Ana Pellicer & the Artisans of Santa Clara del Cobre, Queen Sofia Cultural Institute, Madrid; Temple Gallery, Philadelphia Distinctions / Awards - Clark Foundation Award - Copley Foundation Sculpture Award, 1957 Public Order - Acapulco Convention Center - Institute for Foreign Trade, Mexico City Hirshhorn Musem Museums, University of Arizona Museum, New York Hilton Hotel , Yale, Neuberger Museum of Art. Bibliography - Wood engraved for the collection of poems by Robert Graves, "Adam's Rib" - Dictionary of the Sculpture of this Century, Michel Seuphor - History of modern sculpture, Herbert Read - James Metcalf (monograph), Karpel's Arts in America - American sculptures, Ekdahi - American Art Since 1960, Sam Hunter, 1963 - "James Metcalf", Pierre Restany, exhibition Gallery Europe, 1963 - XXth Century Review, P. Courthion, D. Vallier, 1964 - Anthology of Invention Forms, Robert Lebel - Dictionary of Modern Sculpture, Hazan Edition