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Mark Sponenburgh

Mark Sponenburgh (Born 1916) is active/lives in Oregon, Michigan.  Mark Sponenburgh is known for Sculptor-animal.

A faculty member at the University of Oregon in Eugene, he made sculpture of beach logs and roots that suggested animal forms. He left Oregon for a period to head an art school in Pakistan and later returned to teach at Oregon State University.

He was born in Cadillac, Michigan and studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Wayne State University, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the University of London, and the University of Cairo.

In 1990, he and his wife donated several-hundred fine and decorative art objects to Willamette University as a study collection for students.

His work is in the Detroit Institute of Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in Egypt. He has exhibited a the The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and from 1951 to 1953 had a Fulbright Scholarship.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Mark Sponenburgh


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
Art School
  • Cranbrook Academy of Art, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Fulbright Grant, Fellowship
Chronology
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Animal Specialty
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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