Vintage American School Artist Vincent Glinsky Nude Sculpture, composite, 13 1/2" High.
Vincent Glinsky was born in Russia in 1895 and immigrated to America as a young man. There he underwent formal training at the Beaux Art Institute in New York. After receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship*, Glinsky left America to settle in Italy, and following that, in France, where he was accorded a one-man show.Returning to America during the height of the Great Depression, Glinsky found work as a WPA* artist, and also as an architectural artist. As his reputation grew, so did his following, and throughout his career Glinsky was sought out as a master teacher. He eventually served on the faculties of Columbia University, New York University and Brooklyn College.Trained in the high classical practice, Glinsky does work that is not concerned with passing fashions, but rather with the time honored traditions of sculpting. In an artistic climate where today's fashions are tomorrow's forgottens, Glinsky's direct-carved work has an enduring solidity and value. He worked in various media (stone, wood, terra cotta*, watercolor, lithograph*) and in several styles (Beaux Arts* Neo-classical*, WPA, abstract*).Glinsky's sensitivity and craft found their natural expression in figurative work for which he was best known. His human forms are intended to exude a warmth and animation that belie their construction in stone, wood, and bronze.In speaking of his working methods, Enid Bell, in an article on Glinsky in the American Artist magazine wrote: "Glinsky's figurative sculpture accords with his own synthesis of the body, long evolved from observation studies, rather than with the actuality of a posed model. His procedure is to establish the configuration in a three-dimensional model small enough to permit spontaneous manipulation. This is the basis of the larger sculpture, but it is never exactly copied, for modifications or even considerable changes are naturally impelled by the increased dimensions, the difference in material, and an ever alert evaluation."

13.5 x 1 in

10 lb