COUNTERPOINT, 1997 Frederick Elliott Hart (American, 1943-1999)
Signature: signed, dated and numbered on side Medium: acrylic sculpture; (no. 79 from an edition of 350) Dimensions: 15 x 22 x 9in. (38.10 x 55.88 x 22.86cm) Provenance: Exhibited: Literature: Frederick Elliott Hart pioneered the use of clear acrylic resin to create cast figurative sculptures and patented a process in which one clear acrylic sculpture was embedded within another. In 1997 Ha... art presented a unique casting entitled The Cross of the Millennium to Pope John Paul II in a private ceremony at the Vatican. He was a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1985 to 1989 and was awarded an honorary degree from the University of South Carolina and received the Henry Hering Award of the National Sculpture Society in 1987 and Presidential Design Excellence Award in 1988. In 2004, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the U.S. government. His important body of work includes the Washington National Cathedral's Creation Sculptures and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's Three Soldiers. more
COUNTERPOINT, 1997 Frederick Elliott Hart (American, 1943-1999)
Signature: signed, dated and numbered on side Medium: acrylic sculpture; (no. 79 from an edition of 350) Dimensions: 15 x 22 x 9in. (38.10 x 55.88 x 22.86cm) Provenance: Exhibited: Literature: Frederick Elliott Hart pioneered the use of clear acrylic resin to create cast figurative sculptures and patented a process in which one clear acrylic sculpture was embedded within another. In 1997 Ha... art presented a unique casting entitled The Cross of the Millennium to Pope John Paul II in a private ceremony at the Vatican. He was a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1985 to 1989 and was awarded an honorary degree from the University of South Carolina and received the Henry Hering Award of the National Sculpture Society in 1987 and Presidential Design Excellence Award in 1988. In 2004, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the U.S. government. His important body of work includes the Washington National Cathedral's Creation Sculptures and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's Three Soldiers. more
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