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Dorothea H. Denslow
Dorothea "Miss Dee" Henrietta Denslow (December 14, 1900 – April 26, 1971) was an American sculptor, and educator. She was the founder of the Clay Club (later known as the SculptureCenter) in New York City. Biography Dorothea Henrietta Denslow was born on December 14, 1900, in New York City, to parents Cornelia Julia (née Smith) and Henry Carey Denslow. Her father was a bird Taxidermy, taxidermist, and painter who worked as a natural history curator at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, and she art studied under him. At age fourteen she started exhibiting her artwork. She was partly raised in Hartford, Connecticut, and in 1923, she was a member of the Connecticut Academy Fine Arts. Denslow attended the Art Students League of New York. In 1928, Denslow founded the Clay Club (later known as the SculptureCenter), which was her studio and it was also used as a meeting space and young artists workshop founded at 1841/2 Brooklyn Ave. in Brooklyn, initially in the basement of the Br ...
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city.
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Elsa Hutzler
Elsa may refer to: ELSA (acronym) *ELSA Technology, a manufacturer of computer hardware * English Language Skills Assessment * English Longitudinal Study of Ageing * Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects research *European Law Students' Association *European League of Stuttering Associations *Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Australia, a group in the history of the Lutheran Church of Australia *Experimental light-sport aircraft (E-LSA) People * Elsa (given name), a female given name * Pedro Elsa (1901–unknown), Argentine Olympic athlete Characters * Elsa (''Frozen''), fictional character from the Disney animated franchise, ''Frozen'' * Elsa von Brabant, a character in the 1850 Richard Wagner opera ''Lohengrin'' Places * Elsa, California, a place in California, U.S. * Elsa, Texas, U.S. * Elsa, Yukon, Canada Other * 182 Elsa, an asteroid * ''Elsa'' (album), debut album of Elsa Lunghini * Elsa (river), Tuscany, Italy * Elsa the lioness, subject of the book and film ''Born Free'' ...
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1900 Births
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2100. Summary Political and military The year 1900 was the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Two days into the new year, the U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announced the Open Door Policy regarding China, advocating for equal access for all nations to the Chinese market. The Galveston hurricane would become the deadliest natural disaster in United States history, killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people, mostly in and near Galveston, Texas, as well as leaving 10,000 people homeless, destroying 7,000 buildings of all kinds in Galveston. As of 2025, it remains the fourth deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. An ongoing Boxer Rebellion in China escalates with multiple attacks by the Boxers on Chines ...
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Mountainhome, Pennsylvania
Mountainhome is a census-designated place (CDP) in Barrett Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,182 at the 2010 census. Geography Mountainhome is located at (41.177450, -75.266749). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), all land. Laura Randall described Mountainhome as "not a walkable kind of place, but it has several cafes, shops, and attractions like the Pocono Playhouse and Callie's Candy Factory." Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,169 people, 491 households, and 315 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 566 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 95.47% White, 2.74% African American, 0.26% Native American, 0.51% Asian, 0.68% from other races, and 0.34% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.05% of the population. There were 491 households, out of w ...
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Ibram Lassaw
Ibram Lassaw (May 4, 1913 – December 30, 2003) was an Egyptian-born American sculptor of Russian heritage, known for non-objective construction in brazed metals. Early life and education Lassaw was born on May 4, 1913, in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian Jewish émigré parents. He moved to the United States in 1921, and the family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a United States citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club (now SculptureCenter) with Dorothea H. Denslow, and later at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and other artists. He also attended the City College of New York.Philips, Lisa. ''The Third Dimension: Sculpture of the New York School''. Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984, p. 76. Career Influenced by his study of art history and readings in European art magazines, Lassaw began to make sculpture in the late 1920s. He was among th ...
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Harry Holtzman
Harry Holtzman (June 8, 1912 – September 25, 1987) was an American artist and founding member of the American Abstract Artists group. Early life At the age of fourteen, Holtzman visited the ''Société Anonyme’s'' 1926 “International Exhibition of Modern Art” at the Brooklyn Museum and developed an early interest in advanced art with the guidance and encouragement of a high school teacher. At sixteen, in 1928, he began attending the Art Students League of New York and became an active participant in League activities, serving as a monitor and contributing to the quarterly magazine. At a membership meeting in early 1932, Holtzman’s remarks against the xenophobia of the League’s director were instrumental in carrying a membership vote that brought George Grosz and Hans Hofmann to teach at the League. At the close of this meeting, Burgoyne Diller, a Hofmann protégé, taken by Holtzman’s independence of mind, introduced himself, beginning an important lasting r ...
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Frank Eliscu
Frank Eliscu (July 13, 1912 – June 19, 1996) was an American sculptor and art teacher who designed and created the Heisman Memorial Football Trophy in 1935 when he was only 23 years old. The first Heisman Trophy, a strong young bull of a football player cast in bronze, was presented to a college football player in 1935, and is considered one of the greatest honors a college athlete can receive. Over the years the Heisman Committee has paid tribute to Eliscu and his creation several times, and in 1985, the Heisman Committee invited him to speak at the 50th Anniversary Heisman ceremonies.AEJV.com/artists/e/frank_eliscu-biography.php Eliscu amassed a body of work that spans from public fountains to ex-President Gerald Ford's inaugural medal (later given as a gift to Leonid Brezhnev when Ford visited Russia), to the five-story bronze frieze that decorates the glass panes above the doors to the Library of Congress. This massive sculpture won the Henry Hering Memorial Medal from t ...
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Louise Nevelson
Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine), she emigrated with her family to the United States in the early 20th century. Nevelson learned English at school, as she spoke Yiddish language, Yiddish at home. By the early 1930s she was attending art classes at the Art Students League of New York, and in 1941 she had her first solo exhibition. Nevelson experimented with early conceptual art using found objects, and experimented with painting and printing before dedicating her lifework to sculpture. Usually created out of wood, her sculptures appear puzzle-like, with multiple intricately cut pieces placed into wall sculptures or independently standing pieces, often 3-D. The sculptures are typically painted in monochromatic black or white. A prominent figure in the internationa ...
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Sahl Swarz
Sahl Swarz (May 4, 1912 – October 24, 2004) was an American sculptor and arts educator. His preferred materials were steel and bronze. Biography Sahl Swarz was born on May 4, 1912, in New York City, to Jewish emigrants to the United States from the Austrian part of the partitioned Poland.サール・シュワルツ / Sahl Swarz (1912~2004)
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He studied under the instruction of of The Clay Club (which has become the ), of which Swarz was assistant director ...
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Beonne Boronda
Beonne Drew Boronda (1911–2012) was an American sculptor, and educator. She was active in the arts in Connecticut and was the president of the Mystic Art Association and founder of the Mystic Outdoor Art Festival. Her father was artist Lester D. Boronda. She primarily lived in New York City, and in Mason's Island near Mystic, Connecticut. She also known by her married name Beonne Boronda Liebig. Life and career Beonne Drew Boronda was born on May 23, 1911, in Monterey, California. Her mother was Ruby Elizabeth Drew, and her father was noted artist Lester David Boronda. The Boronda family is a prominent Californios, Californio family, who were early settlers from Spain in Monterey County, California. Around 1912, the family moved to New York City, where he parents opened a Spanish colonial-style wrought iron furniture and decors store. In 1915, their family bought a property in Mason's Island in Connecticut, as a vacation home. At the age of ten in 1921, she had her first solo ...
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Yvonne Forrest
Yvonne is a feminine given name, the female form of Yvon, which is derived from the French name Yves and Yvette. It is from the French word ''iv'', meaning "yew" (or tree). Since yew wood was used for bows, Ivo may have been an occupational name meaning "archer". Yvonne/Ivonne is also a Spanish girl name. This name first arrived in England with the Norman invasion, along with variations such as Yvette and male versions of the same name. It was reintroduced into English-speaking countries in the early 20th century. It is currently 173rd in the United States popular names list. It has also lost popularity in France, where in 1900 it was the 7th most popular name. Yvonne has several name days: May 26 in Sweden and December 11th in Ireland and Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and ...
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