Marion Sanford
Marion Sanford
Born（1904年2月9日）February 9, 1904
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
DiedFebruary 1987
Eastbourne, England
Known forSculpture
PartnerCornelia Van Auken Chapin
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship

Marion Sanford (February 9, 1904 - February 1987) was an American sculptor known for her bronze portraits of women engaged in everyday domestic activities.[1][2][3]

Early life and career

Sanford was born to American parents in Guelph, Ontario and was raised on a farm in Warren, Pennsylvania.[2][4] Her artistic education began at Pratt Institute, where she studied painting in 1922.[2][4] She later worked as a stage and costume designer before developing an interest in sculpture.[5] At the Art Students League of New York, Sanford studied sculpture under Leo Lentelli and Robert Laurent, experimenting with the direct-carving method.[4][6] She also worked as an apprentice to artist Brenda Putnam between 1937 and 1940.[2][7] Sanford provided pen and ink illustrations for Putnam's book, The Sculptor's Way, and is referred to by Putnam in that book as "my pupil, assistant and colleague."[2][4][8]

In 1937, Sanford had her first exhibition of sculptures.[5] The same year, her statue Diana was awarded a prize by the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[4] In 1939, she completed a plaster bas-relief of black workers weighing cotton, which had been commissioned with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts for the Winder, Georgia post office as part of a New Deal arts initiative.[2][9] Sanford also was included in the 1939 New York World's Fair exhibition of American art, and won Guggenheim Fellowships in 1941 and 1942.[2][4][7]

Sanford is best known for her "Women at Work" (also referred to as "working women") series of bronze sculptures depicting women doing household chores such as picking apples (Harvest, 1941), preparing food (Butterwoman, 1942) and washing clothes (Scrubwoman, n.d.).[2][10][11] These works were inspired by memories of her Swedish neighbors working on their farm when she was a child in Pennsylvania.[2] In a 1947 interview, Sanford stated that she feels there is a "beauty in movements one makes while performing chores" as well as an "unconscious grace in the succession of movements as the work proceeds."[2][12]

Other notable works include De Profundis (1943), a portrait of a grief-stricken woman for which she received the Watrous Gold Medal at the National Academy of Design, and Dawn (1947), a portrait of a seated teenaged girl, which won another award from the Academy.[2][4][13] In the summer of 1949 she was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Other exhibitions include those at the Newport Art Association, Architectural League of New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[7]

Sanford was a founding member of the Sculptors Guild and also a member in the National Sculpture Society.[6]

Personal life and death

Sanford began working with fellow sculptor Cornelia Chapin in the late 1930s. During the Second World War, they redecorated and maintained the former studio of Gutzon Borglum on 38th Street in New York City.[2] The two artists eventually relocated to Lakeville, Connecticut in 1952.[4] Chapin often modeled for Sanford's work.[5]

After Chapin's death in 1972, Sanford relocated to Eastbourne, England, where she lived and worked until her own death in February 1987.[3][14]

二人の芸術家の文書は、スミソニアン協会のアメリカ美術アーカイブに「マリオン・サンフォードとコーネリア・チャピンの文書、1929-1988」として収蔵されている。[ 5 ]

参考文献

  1. ^ 「マリオン・サンフォードとコーネリア・チャピン」スミソニアン協会。2022年6月22日閲覧。
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k lルビンスタイン、シャーロット・ストライファー (1990). 『アメリカの女性彫刻家：三次元で活躍する女性の歴史』ボストン、マサチューセッツ州：GKホール. pp.  288– 289. ISBN 0-8161-8732-0. OCLC  20756128 .
  3. ^ a b「ボックス1、フォルダ2：マリオン・サンフォード書簡、1939-1988」。マリオン・サンフォードとコーネリア・チャピンの文書、1929-1988：62 – スミソニアン協会アメリカ美術史アーカイブより。
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h「マリオン・サンフォード」。国立デザインアカデミー。
  5. ^ a b c d「マリオン・サンフォードとコーネリア・チャピンの文書、1929-1988」。アメリカ美術史アーカイブ。 2022年6月22日閲覧。
  6. ^ a bプロスケ、ベアトリス・ギルマン (1968).ブルックグリーン・ガーデンの彫刻. マレルズ・インレット、サウスカロライナ州: ブルックグリーン・ガーデン. pp.  462– 465.
  7. ^ a b c「マリオン・サンフォード」ジョン・サイモン・グッゲンハイム記念財団。 2022年6月22日閲覧。
  8. ^パトナム、ブレンダ（1939年）『彫刻家の道：モデリングと彫刻の手引き』ニューヨーク、カナダ、トロント：Farrar & Rinehart社、343ページ。
  9. ^ 「バロー郡博物館の浅浮き彫り - ウィンダー、ジョージア州」。リビング・ニューディール。2022年6月22日閲覧。
  10. ^ 「マリオン・サンフォード『収穫』（1941年）」 PAFA - ペンシルバニア美術アカデミー. 2014年12月28日. 2022年6月22日閲覧。
  11. ^ 「バターウーマン」スミソニアンアメリカ美術館2022年6月22日閲覧。
  12. ^ 「Harvest - Marion Sanford (1904 - 1987)」 . National Academy of Design . 2022年6月22日閲覧。
  13. ^コーリー、エリン (2007). 『アメリカ美術アーカイブ所蔵 マリオン・サンフォードおよびコーネリア・チャピン文書 1929-1988 の検索補助』（PDF） . アメリカ美術アーカイブ.
  14. ^ 「マリオン・サンフォードの彫刻」クレイリー美術館。2022年6月23日閲覧。
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