Calvin Albert

CHARCOAL DRAWINGS - BRONZE SCULPTURES - TERRA COTTA SCULPTURES - MIXED MEDIUM SCULPTURES

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 serenity and a tension. Powerful – majestic – mysterious works! Calvin was a sculptor of enormous range and integrity! He combined both tools and hand to develop his geometric element of distortion from life-like to emotions!

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HIGHLIGHTS 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.
Before Calvin peacefully passing on June 4, 2007 he lived a fulfilled life.

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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

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 technique development in sculpture, and sculptures by him.

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 TAUGHT at the several SCHOOLS, and his art has been shown at various ONE MAN shows and MUSEUMS, both here and abroad, throughout his career!
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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, N Y C
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

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 TERRA COTTA SCULPTURES. Calvin's terra cotta works were rolled thin on cloth and virtually tossed by him. His sculptures were created in part by using only tools to shape without the normal finger manipulation, while other areas of the same piece were sculpture by hand to give distortions to emotion! Calvin embraced the figurative tradition but with a distinctly abstract attitude using geometric elements!

Calvin's BRONZE SCULPTURES embrace a figurative tradition but with a distinctly abstract attitude. He paid homage to the unfinished works of Michelangelo and adds to this a modernist geometric element to his abstract expressionism! His purposeful distortions is to give the sculpture a sense of emotions!

Calvin's CHARCOAL DRAWINGS on canson paper. He would start with large smudges and let them slowly evolve! His abstract charcoal drawings gave curiously passion of apparitional images. His technique is handled in a mastermind manner of shading life-like in some passages and purposeful distortions to suggest emotion!

Calvin's MIXED MEDIUM is made of resin with gesso, and most are outlined using graphite pencil. While using the figurative tradition he would purposefully use geometric elements and distort the image using his abstract talents to suggest emotion!

Calvin's FIBERGLASS SCULPTURES are distorted to create visual concave and convex formations interrelate in a total three-dimensional work of both subtlety and power!