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Nancy Stevenson Graves (1940 - 1995) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts. Nancy Graves is known for Mod sculptor, mod figure painter.
A sculptor of animals and American Indian shamanistic objects, filmmaker, and painter, Nancy Graves had a highly successful and varied career, primarily in New York City. In her abstract work, she united her interest in anthropology, totemic objects, cartography, and biomorphic shapes.
She was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and became a graduate of Vassar College in 1961 and then Yale University's School of Art and Architecture. Graves won a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship for painting, allowing her to spend a year in Paris in 1964-65. In the next few years, she traveled in North Africa and the Near East and lived and worked in Florence, Italy where she did her first signature work, which was sculptures of life-size Bactrian camels.
In 1966, she moved to New York City and further experimented with ways to produced these sculptures by building wood and steel armatures, covering them with skins of animal embryos, stuffing the skins with polyurethane to form humps, and tinti ...
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Kenzo Okada
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Joel Elias Shapiro
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Julian Stanczak
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Al Held
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Pavel (Tchelitchev) Tchelitchew
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Lucas Samaras
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Billy Al Bengston
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Nicholas Krushenick
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Robert Cottingham
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John Angus Chamberlain
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Larry Stuart Bell
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Isamu Noguchi
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Enrico Donati
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Claes Thure Oldenburg
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Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman
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Alfred Julio Jensen
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Helen Frankenthaler
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Frank Stella
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Larry Zox
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Mark di Suvero
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Paul Terence Feeley
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Richard Serra
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Christopher Mallory Wilmarth
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Larry Poons
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Nancy Graves
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Art Method
Easel Painting
Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Acrylic Paint
Aluminum/Aluminium
Assemblage
Bronze
Colored Pencil
Mixed Media, Multi Media
Oil Paint
Steel, Stainless Steel
Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Figurative, Human Figure
Abstraction, Abstract
Art Subject
Animals, Mammals
Figure, Figurative Humans
Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
Africa
Art School
Art Students League of New York, Student
Yale University School of Fine Art and Architecture, Student
Awards/Recognition
Fulbright Grant, Fellowship
Chronology
Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
Karen and Robert Duncan Collection, Lincoln NE
Added Description
Figure Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
Knoedler Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
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