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Ursula von Rydingsvard | |||
| Born
1942 in Deensen, Germany Lives and works in New York, NY |
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| Bowl with Sacks, 1998 | ||||
| cedar
wood with graphite 35 x 60 x 60 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the R. C. Kemper Charitable Trust and Foundation 1998.4a–c |
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| German-born sculptor von Rydingsvard emigrated to
the United States in 1950 after living in refugee camps with her family
following World War II. Rejecting the industrial materials favored by Minimalists,
she began working with cedar in 1976. Using four-by-four-inch beams, she
cuts, stacks, and secures them to one another, then carves them into abstract
yet suggestive forms. To give them a weathered appearance, she finished
the forms by rubbing them with powdered graphite. |