Description:
CALVIN ALBERT – ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST - PROMINENT ARTIST AND SCULPTOR
This outstanding Charcoal work measures 30" x 20". It is matted and framed measuring 37 1/2" x 27 1/4". This piece weighs 5 lbs and is signed by the late Calvin Albert!
Calvin's CHARCOAL DRAWINGS on canson paper. He would start with large smudges and let them slowly evolve! His abstract charcoal drawings gives curiously passionate of apparitional images.
This piece is part of a very large collection of Calvin's works including Charcoals Drawings, Bronze, Terra Cotta and Resin with Gesso Sculptures. Please inquire about additional pieces and prices.
*** See below for further biography information about Calvin Albert. ***
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Calvin's works afforded him many AWARDS including but not limited to:
1944 Haass Prize, Detroit Institute of Arts
1953 International Hororable Mention, London
1954 Forst Award for Sculpture, Audubon Artists
1954 Audubon Artists Sculpture
1966 Guggenheim Fellowship
National Academy of Design
1975 National Institute of Arts and Letters
1975 American Academy of Arts and Letters
Calvin's Sculpture COMMISSIONS included but not limited to:
1954 Art Doors and Candelabra: Steinberg House, N.Y.C.
1955 Outdoor Candelabra: Temple Israel, Tulsa, OK
1957 Eternal light and Candelabra: Temple Israel, Bridgeport, Conn.
1959 Crucifix, Tabernacle and Candlesticks: St. Paul's Church, Peoria, Ill.
1974 Façade Relief, Congregation Emanuel of Grand Rapids
Calvin taught at the following places through out his career:
Institute of Design in Chicago
New York University
Brooklyn College
About the artist:
CALVIN ALBERT was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1918.
He studied in Chicago with Archipenko and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy before moving to New York with his wife in 1947.
He taught at several schools before going to Pratt Institute in 1950. There Calvin was a Professor of Art and Head of the Graduate Sculpture program. He retired as PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF PRATT INSTITUTE in 1985 and later moved to Florida.
He was a prominent SCULPTOR and an ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST, although he walked his own line between representation and abstraction. His figures have muscular form; and simultaneously have a serenity and a tension. Powerful – majestic – mysterious works!
Lent by Calvin Albert and filmed by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution is Calvin's study of developments in sculpture and sculpture training, including writings by Calvin's own experiments with casting work being done in art schools, and areas of possible development in sculpture and sculptures by him.
A quote from Calvin Albert 1982:
"MY WORK BEGINS WITH IMPROVISATION, A SPONTANEOUS DEVELOPMENT OF FORMS. THE SHAPES PROVOKE NEW IMAGES, AND GRADUALLY I BRING OUT WHAT I FIND IN THE MATERIAL".
Calvin also was given, in 1961-62, by the American Commission for Cultural Exchange with ITALY, a Fulbright Research Grant; and to the American Academy in Rome where he worked a guest artist. In 1963 and 1965 he received Tiffany Grants.
Calvin's works have been shown at various ONE MAN shows and MUSEUMS, both here and abroad, throughout his career including but not limited to:
American Federation of Arts
Art Institute in Chicago
Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Detroit Institute of Arts
Jewish Museum, N Y C
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Musee Nationale d'Art Moderne, Paris
Museum of Modern Art, N Y C
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Crafts
Museum of Fine Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art
Michigan State University
New World School of the Arts, Miami, Fl
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
University of North Carolina
University of Georgia
University of Illinois
University of Nebraska
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Aaron Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, N.Y.
Benton Gallery, Southampton, N.Y.
Bologna–Lani Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y.
Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris
Galleria George Lester, Rome, Italy
Gaumann Cicchino Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York City
Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Ingber Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y.
Landmark Gallery, N Y C
Laurel Gallery, N Y C
Library Gallery, Fair Lawn, N J
Light at the Beach Gallery, Southampton, N.Y.
Newhouse Gallery, Staten Island, N.Y.
Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Ca.
Peter Drew Gallery, Boca Raton, Fl.
Puma Gallery, N Y
Stable Gallery , N Y C
Tate Gallery, London
Theobald Gallery, N Y C
Tower Gallery
Vered Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y.
Wm. Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art
