藝術家Reuben NAKIAN (1897-1986) 生平簡歷

出生地： College Point, NY

地址： NYC

职业： Sculptor, graphic artist

教育： Independent Sch. of Art, with Homer Boss & A.S. Baylinson; BAID; ASL, 1912; apprenticed with Paul Manship, 1916-20

展出： WMAA biennials, 1923-66; WMAA, 1926 (1st solo); Downtown Gal., NYC, 1930s (several solo shows); PAFA Ann., 1934, 1946; Egan Gal., NYC, 1949-on (many solo shows); Stewart-Marean Gal., NYC, 1958 (solo); S„o Paulo Bienal, 1961 (over 40 works); Gal. of Art, Wash, DC, 1963 (retrospective); MoMA, 1966 (retrospective); The New American Painting & Sculpture, MoMA, 1969; 34th Venice Biennial, 1968; AIC; Salons of Am. Awards: Guggenheim Found. fellowship, 1930; Ford Found. grant, 1959; prize, S„o Paulo, 1960.

会员： Soc. PS&G.

工作： MoMA; New Sch. AC; Newark Mus.; WMAA; LACMA; alum sculp., facade of Loeb Student Ctr., NYU, 1961; "Voyage to Crete," Lincoln Ctr., NYC

评论： Abstract Expressionist sculptor. Shared a studio with Gaston Lachaise from 1920 to 1923. In the early 1930s, Nakian began a series of portrait busts of artist-friends which led to a commission for busts of Franklin D. Roosevelt and members of his Cabinet. He gained nation-wide attention in 1934 for his life-size plaster statue of Babe Ruth (the work was later destroyed). Joined the WPA in 1936. In the same decade he befriended Arshile Gorky and for a time concentrated his efforts on drawing, producing works responsive to the School of Paris Modernism. By the late 1940s Nakian's sculptural style had changed from his earlier smooth, modernistic stylization to one that was rougher, more calligraphic, and abstract, and bore an affinity with Abstract Expressionism. For his subject matter, Nakian chose erotic themes from classical mythology, producing a series of terra-cotta works based on the Europa and the Bull theme. In the mid-1950s Nakian began treating these themes on a much larger scale, creating powerful, more fully abstract works with coarse-textured bronze surfaces.

来源： WW73; Sam Hunter (ed.), New Art Around the World: Painting and Sculpture (Abrams, 1966); Frank O'Hara, Nakian (exh. cat., MoMA, 1966); Baigell, Dictionary; Craven, Sculpture in America, 640-42; Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, 294-95; Falk, Exh. Record Series.