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Frederick Hart (sculptor)

Frederick Elliott Hart (November 3, 1943 – August 13, 1999) was an American sculptor. The creator of hundreds of public monuments, private commissions, portraits, and other works of art, Hart is most famous for Ex Nihilo, a part of his Creation Sculptures at Washington National Cathedral, and The Three Servicemen (also known as The Three Soldiers), at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.[1]

Frederick Hart
Born
Frederick Elliott Hart

November 3, 1943
Atlanta, Georgia
DiedAugust 13, 1999 (1999-08-14) (aged 55)
Baltimore, Maryland
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of South Carolina (Did not graduate)

George Washington University (Did not graduate)

American University (Did not graduate)
Known forSculpture
Notable workEx Nihilo, Washington National Cathedral;
The Three Soldiers, Vietnam Veterans Memorial; James Earl Carter Presidential Statue, Georgia State Capitol
Ex Nihilo (1978–1984)

Working within the figurative tradition of American Beaux-Arts sculpture, Hart's approach was that of a craftsman. With little formal schooling, he developed his skills on the job, learning ancient techniques from master carvers.[2]

Hart modeled his work in clay. Many of his larger pieces were carved in Italian marble or limestone, or cast in bronze. Throughout his career, Hart explored themes of beauty and spirituality, consciousness and identity, sculpting in transparent and semi-transparent acrylic materials using a process he patented.[3][1]

Strongly influenced by the dramatic poses of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Anna Hyatt Huntington, as well as the naturalism of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French,[4] Hart's style was also shaped by that of Auguste Rodin,[5] especially in the way he conveyed movement, experimented with abstract forms, and pushed the boundaries of traditional figurative art.[6][7][8]

According to J. Carter Brown, Director Emeritus of the National Gallery of Art, “It is breathtaking to see an artist with the technical abilities and devotion to craft of Frederick Hart combine these gifts with an ability to go to the brink with them, but somehow keep the inner, emotional, intellectual and spiritual force of the work dominant."[9] In the words of Tom Wolfe: “Rick is—and I do not say this lightly—America’s greatest sculptor.”[10]

Early life edit

Frederick "Rick" Hart was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Joanna Elliott, and Frederick William Hart, a heavy drinker who had served in the United States Navy during World War II.[11] Hart's older brother, also named Frederick William, died as an infant. Hart's mother contracted scarlet fever and died in 1945, when Hart was two.[12]

As he grew up, and his relationship with his father suffered, Hart became known as a troublemaker, and he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother and aunt in Horry County, South Carolina.[13] Hart's father began working as a newspaper reporter in Atlanta, and married Myrtis Mildred Hailey in 1947. Half-sister Chesley Hart was born in 1949. In 1956, they moved to Virginia, near Washington, D.C., and Hart rejoined his family. Although his relationship with his father continued to deteriorate, Hart and his half-sister Chesley became good friends.[14]

Hart was an avid reader, but a troubled student. After failing ninth grade, he was sent back to South Carolina to live with his Aunt Essie, and to repeat the school year. Teachers were worried he would fail out of high school. The principal was almost certain that he would. He challenged Hart to take the A.C.T. to show how little he knew. When Hart achieved a near-perfect score, the principal was stunned. In 1959, he helped sixteen-year-old Hart gain early admission to the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.[15]

At the same time, the Civil Rights Movement was gathering strength, and the campaign to desegregate South Carolina's school system began. In Columbia, in 1961, African-American students led 250 in a protest march against racial segregation.[15] Hart was the only white student to join them:

“I was just walking by,” Hart said. “I happened to know some of the demonstrators. They were from Benedict College, a black school in Columbia. I went over and started talking to them. That irritated the volunteer police (who were used for riot control). They told me to move along. At that point, I said, ‘Screw you.’ And I joined the demonstration.”[16]

Hart was expelled from the University of South Carolina, thrown in jail, and then chased out of town by the Ku Klux Klan.[16]

Artistic career edit

In 1965, Hart’s sister, Chesley, was diagnosed with leukemia. Because her parents were unable to cope with the illness, Chesley's Aunt Grace became her caregiver. Hart tried to stem his family’s disintegration by helping Aunt Grace as much as he could.[12] The next year, when she was just 16, Chesley died.[12]

In the turbulent period after her death, Hart “stumble[d] into a sculpture class at the Corcoran School of Art, and [was] blown away.”[12] Mourning Chesley shaped what Hart would later describe as his “moral responsibility” as an artist.[17] As he said: Art must ”give hope to the darkness.”[18] It ”must be a part of life. It must be an enriching, ennobling and vital partner... It should be a majestic presence in everyday life."[17]

Hart dropped out of the Corcoran, then attended art classes at American University in Washington, D.C., but dropped out again before receiving a degree.[19] While working at Giorgio Gianetti Studio of Architectural Sculpture, he assisted sculptors Felix de Weldon, Carl Mose, Don Turano, and Heinz Warnecke.[12][1] Hart was also using his time in Washington, D.C., as an opportunity to study the public art of the nation's capital, and absorb the naturalistic style of sculptor Daniel Chester French.[4][6]

Toward the end of the 1960s, Hart began work on one of his earliest and most personal sculptures, Family. Years later, Hart would say that Family was for him a way to come to terms with Chesley's death; it was an effort to represent an idea of stability, to capture a sense of belonging.[14] The first casting Hart presented as a gift to his girlfriend in 1969.[14] Stylistically, Family signals Hart's tendency to straddle the line between Classical and Romantic sculptural traditions. The heavy pyramidal form of Hart's Family evokes the solidity of French's Abraham Lincoln, but the raw, earthy contours set it apart, and situate it within the Romantic tradition of Rodin.

Washington National Cathedral edit

In 1967, Hart took a job as a clerk in the mail room at Washington National Cathedral. He did so for the specific purpose of pestering Roger Morigi.[20] Morigi was the Cathedral's legendary master carver, an Italian immigrant who had carved the iconic frieze of the United States Supreme Court Building.[21] "Highly respected, [Morigi] was a temperamental perfectionist who didn't tolerate incompetence and wasn't shy about sharing his opinions."[22] Hart wanted Morigi to take him on as an apprentice. In time, it worked: Morigi became his mentor. Not only that, he became a father figure to Hart, who had long been estranged from his own parents.[20]

"Working at the cathedral was the best experience of my learning life," Hart said. "It taught me 'how' to work. I wanted to know and feel the discipline—the mastery of stone carving—and I learned that in the hours of working up on the scaffolding in the heat of summer and through the winter."[4] At first, Morigi put Hart to work on floral ornaments, primarily ceiling bosses. Because they were so high up, and far from view, any rookie mistakes would be less noticeable there, but for Hart, this meant scaling more than ten stories of scaffolding, and working high up off the ground.[20] As his training progressed, Morigi gave him more responsibilities. Hart carved reliefs, motifs, and gargoyles, and sculpted a figure of Erasmus.[23] He was on his way to becoming a master carver himself when the Cathedral Building Committee announced a major competition.

Creation Sculptures edit

In 1971, the Washington National Cathedral Building Committee held a competition to determine the appearance of the west façade, the main entrance of the Cathedral. This was not just an important commission, it was a radical break with tradition. In the past, the west façade of a Christian cathedral typically featured a depiction of the Last Judgment; however, the Cathedral Building Committee wanted Washington National Cathedral to be the exception. Instead of the traditional image of judgment and destruction, they wanted to emphasize a message of love and affirmation, and so they specifically asked artists to focus on the theme of Creation.[23]

To an ambitious young artist like Hart, it was an irresistible opportunity: a compelling theme, and a chance to see his own work carved in limestone over the main entrance of the Cathedral. Interestingly, too, the committee was willing to consider nonrepresentational, avant-garde designs, so for three years, Hart sketched in clay.[24] His original tympanum design (from early 1974) was a wide, bare space, from which a woman's face emerges. The Cathedral Building Committee rejected this submission, as well as those of all the other artists. Only three sculptors were invited to submit new proposals. Hart was not one of them.[24] Undeterred, Hart submitted a revised design of his own. Guided by the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and the idea of a dynamic universe, whirling into existence, Hart developed a revolutionary, unifying vision for the entire west façade.[24] To the committee's approval, he submitted new models for the central tympanum, for the left and right tympana, and for the figures on the trumeaux below them.[25]

In developing Ex Nihilo—the central sculpture, by far the largest of the group—Hart studied the combination of figurative and abstract forms in Rodin’s massive sculpture, The Gates of Hell.[26][27] The final, full-size version of Ex Nihilo spans 21 feet, and stands two stories high.[2] "The spiraling forms that recur throughout Hart's Ex Nihilo suggest the spirals that are found in nature—in sunflower heads, nautiluses, hurricanes, and galaxies."[28] Hart intended the title as a double reference to Aristotle ("out of nothing nothing can be made") and the Bible ("everything is made out of nothing").[29]

For the central trumeau, Hart sculpted an image of Adam, and for the tympana on either side, day and night.[30] As a complete sculptural ensemble, the Creation Sculptures constitute "the most monumental commission for religious sculpture in the United States in the twentieth century."[2]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial edit

After laboring over the Creation Sculptures for ten years, with the project approaching completion at last, Hart began to look around Washington, D.C., for new jobs.[1] To submit a proposal for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Hart teamed up with architect Sheila Brady.[31] Just as in the competition for the Cathedral Building Committee, Hart's initial plan was not accepted. His team placed third.[31] However, in response to the controversy over the winning architect's design, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund tasked Hart, as the most highly ranked sculptor in the competition, to provide a sculptural component.[32] Hart conceived a sculpture of three soldiers "not at the apex [of the wall], as originally planned[,] but 400 feet away from the wall as if looking for their own names."[33]

Hart had become a master carver in 1974, and instead of continuing to work exclusively as a carver, he hoped to build on the success he had already won with more commissions sculpting national monuments.[5] He would bring with him the time-honored techniques he had learned at the Cathedral, as an artisan among artisans, even as he acquired a stronger sense of his own destiny as an original artist, a sense of confidence in his own creative vision and capabilities. Of his work on The Three Soldiers, Hart said he would put the “folds of those fatigue jackets and pants up against the folds of any [carved] medieval angel you can find.”[34]

James Earl Carter Presidential Statue edit

In the 1981 competition to design the Carter Presidential Library, Hart was a principal of the winning team with Jova, Daniels, and Busby Architects (Atlanta, Georgia), and EDAW Landscape Design Firm (Alexandria, Virginia).[5] Hart was asked to provide a portrait of President Jimmy Carter, and on June 7, 1994, the statue of Jimmy Carter was unveiled at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta.[2] Among the guests were Governor Zell Miller, President Carter, and Mrs. Rosalynn Carter. Hart said:

"I am greatly honored to have been selected to sculpt President Carter, a man who served our country in so many ways. From the Camp David Accords and SALT II treaty, that were among the achievements of his presidency, to the myriad projects he has since undertaken on behalf of human and environmental needs.

"In honor of President Carter’s past work as a farmer as well as his environmental initiatives, and his work on behalf of grassroots organizations, I have sculpted him in bronze on a low pedestal, in an informal pose, dressed in khakis with his sleeves rolled up... The gestures of the figure refer to the generosity of Carter’s nature, his eagerness to share a vision of justice, and his unpretentious delight in spreading a message of brotherhood."[35]

Carter said he liked the portrayal: "It was that image that put me in the White House and the governor's office, and I hope I can remain . . . (like that) in the future," he said.[36]

Works in acrylic edit

In 1972, Hart opened his own sculpture studio, to create original artwork, and execute commissioned pieces.[5] Hart modeled his figurative style on the dramatic poses and sensuous expressions that he admired in the work of the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.[27] Many were cast in bronze, some were carved in marble or limestone, but especially after the success of Herself (1984), Hart focused more and more on developing entirely new media for sculpture, using transparent and semi-transparent acrylic materials.[1][37]

As seen in Elegy (1990), Hart developed an original process for embedding one acrylic sculpture in another.[3] With the liquid look of ice sculptures, and their capacity to refract light, these pieces are perhaps his most distinctive. In these, according to Hart, “The sculpture is defined purely by light.” It is a “very delicate sense of image… suggestive of dreams, memories, and visions.”[38]

“All the clear acrylic resin works are really the offspring of the Cathedral work,” Hart said. “They deal with being and non-being. In the Cathedral, the figures emerge from something that is tangible, from a mass of stone. But more beautifully, in a sense, the clear acrylic figures emerge and disappear.” According to Hart, the innovative sculptural medium creates a “relationship between light and form, and a sense of mystery around being and non-being.”[38]

In honor of the Pope's fifty years of priesthood, Hart presented an acrylic work titled The Cross of the Millennium to Pope John Paul II in a ceremony at the Vatican in 1997. When it was unveiled, Pope John Paul II called the sculpture “a profound theological statement for our day.”[38] Hart sculpted a smaller version of The Cross of the Millennium, cast and released as a limited edition.[38]

Hart hoped to use acrylic on a monumental scale, for a public art project, but died before he was able to do so.[39] Today, much of what he sculpted in acrylic remains in private collections.[40] Among these pieces, Hart's later works tend to be "distinguished by an allusive rather than representational nature."[40]

Later life edit

Hart supported local civic groups and environmental causes.[41] He donated sculpture to benefit the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS and Operation Smile. In 1995 he created and donated a memorial portrait of African-American educator Ruby Middleton Forsythe, to honor the local hero who devoted her life to teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in a small town in South Carolina, where Hart had grown up.[42]

While researching the Creation Sculptures, Hart studied the Book of Genesis, and became a Roman Catholic.[15] He married Lindy Lain on December 1, 1978, in a civil ceremony, and on June 2, 1980, their marriage was blessed at Saint Matthew's Cathedral.[12] First son Frederick Lain Hart was born June 21, 1980, and second son Alexander Thaddeus Hart was born January 7, 1983.[12]

In 1997, Washington National Cathedral asked Hart to join a lawsuit accusing a major motion picture company of copyright infringement for the appropriation of Ex Nihilo in the 1997 film The Devil's Advocate.[41] Over the course of the initial proceedings, "it soon became clear that the filmmakers had simply placed Ex Nihilo on a computer template, removed one figure, and then manipulated the figures."[43]

However, Hart was cautious because in the 1990s plaintiffs in suits against major corporations were sometimes ridiculed in the media as part of public relations campaigns funded by the corporations themselves.[44] "During sessions at US Federal Court over the case that winter, the strain on Hart was wincingly visible."[45] As stress and mounting legal fees took a toll on Hart's health, in 1998, he suffered a stroke.[46]

A federal judge ruled that unless a settlement could be reached the film's video release would be delayed until the case went to trial; the motion picture company then agreed to edit the scene for future releases, and to attach stickers to unedited videotapes to indicate they intended no relation between the sculpture in the film and Hart's work.[47]

After his stroke, “Hart had pursued a rigorous regimen of physical therapy to regain the use of his left arm. He worked as arduously on his rehabilitation as he had on any work he ever created. Expecting to recover fully, he continued to sculpt almost every day... He was unaware that cancer was invading his body. Three weeks before he died, he became debilitated by pneumonia. It wasn't until a couple of days before the end that the rapidly spreading cancer was discovered.”[46]

Hart died on August 13, 1999, two days after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital diagnosed him with cancer.[15]

Awards and accolades edit

  • (1980) awarded a patent for inventing a unique process of embedding one acrylic sculpture within another.[3]
  • (1985) appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a seven-member committee that advises the U.S. Government on matters pertaining the arts, and guides the architectural development of the nation's capital.[48]
  • (1986) appointed to the Board of Trustees, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture Collection.
  • (1987) received the Henry Hering Award from the National Sculpture Society for sculpture in an architectural setting, shared with architect Philip Frohman (for Washington National Cathedral work).[1]
  • (1987) participated in an invitational exhibit of works in Philadelphia in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.
  • (1988) received the quadrennial Presidential Design Excellence Award (for Vietnam Veterans Memorial work).[1]
  • (1993) received an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of South Carolina for his "ability to create art that uplifts the human spirit, his commitment to the ideal that art must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life, his skill in creating works that compel attention as they embrace the concerns of mankind, and his contributions to the rich cultural heritage of our nation."[1]
  • (1998) received the first annual Newington-Cropsey Foundation Award for Excellence in the Arts.
  • (2004) awarded (posthumously) the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States Government, “for his important body of work—including the Washington National Cathedral's Creation Sculptures and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's Three Soldiers—which heralded a new age for contemporary public art.”

Legacy edit

According to art historian James M. Goode, "the most significant new figurative works to grace public spaces in Washington during the late twentieth century were created by Frederick Hart."[49] While working with new materials made possible by modern technology, Hart championed craftsmanship and naturalism, and explored new themes. He is admired for his "animated compositions" and "attention to detail."[49] At the time of its dedication, Hart's The Three Soldiers was the first representation of an African American on the National Mall.[50]

Throughout his career, Hart collaborated with sculptor Jay Hall Carpenter. Once Hart's assistant, now an award-winning artist in his own right, Carpenter has produced sculpture for the State Department, the Smithsonian Institution, and Canterbury Cathedral. His recent work includes a portrait of Jim Henson.[51] From 1996 to 1999, Hart’s assistant was the Russian-born sculptor Mikael F. Sogoian.[52][53]

In his later years, Hart became the center of a group of like-minded artists, poets, and philosophers striving to move beyond the Modernist and Post-Modernist categories which dominated the 20th century.[15] Crediting Hart for a renewal of interest in the human figure in art in the early twenty-first century, one art critic and historian wrote in 2005 that “The work of Frederick Hart is changing the world of art.”[8][54]

Also in 2005, Songs of Grace was acquired by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2008, the University of Louisville and the Louisville Ballet, Louisville, Kentucky, premiered the ballet, Between Stillness, inspired by the sculpture, Ex Nihilo.[55] In September of the same year, Ex Nihilo, Fragment No.8 was installed at the Lightner Museum in Saint Augustine, Florida.[10]

In May 2019 The Frederick Hart Studio Museum opened in Nashville, Tennessee.[10]

Notable works edit

Gallery edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Frederick E. Hart". United States Commission of Fine Arts. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d Tom Wolfe, "The Idealist," in Frederick Hart: Sculptor (Hudson Hills Press, 1994), p. 13.
  3. ^ a b c US 4347270, Hart Frederick E, "Decorative article", published 1982-08-31 
  4. ^ a b c Homan Potterton, "Metamorphosis: Stone Carver to Artist" in Frederick Hart: Sculptor (Hudson Hills Press, 1994), p. 19.
  5. ^ a b c d The Emerging Flame: The Work and Philosophy of Frederick E. Hart (Frederick E. Hart Sculpture Group, 1989).
  6. ^ a b Donald Martin Reynolds, "Apotheosis of the Human Figure: An Aesthetic of Evolutionary Humanism" in Frederick Hart: Sculptor (Hudson Hills Press, 1994), p. 63.
  7. ^ James F. Cooper, "The Re-enchantment of Public Art" in Frederick Hart: Sculptor (Hudson Hills Press, 1994), p. 70.
  8. ^ a b Michael Novak, "Beauty Is Truth: The Changing of the Tides" in Frederick Hart: Changing Tides (Hudson Hills Press, 2005), p. 1.
  9. ^ J. Carter Brown, Frederick Hart: Sculptor (Hudson Hills Press, 1995), p. 11.
  10. ^ a b c "Museum Celebrating Renowned 20th Century Sculptor Frederick Hart to Open at Belmont". Belmont University. December 5, 2018. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  11. ^ "Hart at Brookgreen Gardens". Frederick Hart – Sculptor. January 13, 2019. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g "Frederick Hart: Chronology". Frederick Hart (official website). Retrieved December 26, 2018.
  13. ^ Tom Wolfe, "The Idealist," in Frederick Hart: Sculptor (Hudson Hills Press, 1994), p. 12.
  14. ^ a b c "Chesley Hart: 1949–1966". Frederick Hart – Sculptor. January 13, 2019. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  15. ^ a b c d e Tom Wolfe, Obituary: "The Lives They Lived: Frederick Hart," January 9, 2019, at the Wayback Machine New York Times Magazine, January 2, 2000.
  16. ^ a b David Zinman, "Life in Horry," The Horry Independent, April 2, 1998, 5A.
  17. ^ a b "Frederick Hart: Installations". Frederick Hart (official website). Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  18. ^ "Frederick Hart". Art Quotes. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  19. ^ Irvin Molotsky, "Frederick Hart, 56, Designer of Vietnam Statue," New York Times, August 17, 1999, C2.
  20. ^ a b c "Mr. Hart and Master Morigi". Frederick Hart – Sculptor. January 13, 2019. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  21. ^ Tony Mauro, "The Supreme Court's Own Commandments," Legal Times, March 2, 2005.
  22. ^ The Master Carver Gargoyle, Washington National Cathedral (official website).
  23. ^ a b Homan Potterton, "Metamorphosis: Stone Carver to Artist" in Frederick Hart: Sculptor (Hudson Hills Press, 1994), p. 20.
  24. ^ a b c "The Origin of Ex Nihilo". Frederick Hart - Sculptor. December 14, 2018. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  25. ^ "Washington National Cathedral". Frederick Hart (official website). Retrieved January 5, 2015.
  26. ^ Frederick Turner, "On Ex Nihilo" in Frederick Hart: The Complete Works (Butler Books, 2007), p. 24.
  27. ^ a b "Inspired by the Past: Rodin and Bernini". Frederick Hart – Sculptor. January 13, 2019. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  28. ^ Frederick Turner, "Evolution Out of Chaos: The Creation Sculptures" in Frederick Hart: Sculptor (Hudson Hills Press, 1994), p. 60.
  29. ^ Frederick Turner, "Evolution Out of Chaos: The Creation Sculptures" in Frederick Hart: Sculptor (Hudson Hills Press, 1994), p. 59.
  30. ^ Barbara Matusow, "The Passion of Frederick Hart," Washingtonian, November 1998, p. 54.
  31. ^ a b Robert Doubek, Creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: The Inside Story (McFarland and Company, Inc, 2015), p. 127.
  32. ^ Robert Doubek, Creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: The Inside Story (McFarland and Company, Inc, 2015), p. 212.
  33. ^ James M. Goode, Washington Sculpture: A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation's Capital (Johns Hopkins, 2008), p. 780.
  34. ^ "Attention to Detail". Frederick Hart – Sculptor. January 14, 2019. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  35. ^ "Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the James Earl Carter Presidential Statue". Frederick Hart – Sculptor. January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  36. ^ "Statue of a Casual Jimmy Carter Is Formally Unveiled in Georgia". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
  37. ^ Paul Richard, "Frederick Hart's Heavenly Bodies," Washington Post, August 20, 2000, G1.
  38. ^ a b c d "Frederick Hart: Acrylic". Frederick Hart (official website). Retrieved December 26, 2018.
  39. ^ Robert Chase, "Transcending Tradition: The Cast Acrylic Resin Works" in Frederick Hart: Sculptor (Hudson Hills Press, 1994), p. 78.
  40. ^ a b Robert Chase, "Transcending Tradition: The Cast Acrylic Resin Works" in Frederick Hart: Sculptor (Hudson Hills Press, 1994), p. 76.
  41. ^ a b Jennifer Ordonez, “Portrait of the Artist as a Successful Man,” Fauquier News/Loudon Extra, December 28, 1997, p. 15.
  42. ^ FREDERICK HART BIOGRAPHY, November 3, 2020.
  43. ^ James Reston, Jr., A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial (Arcade, 2017), p. 183.
  44. ^ Paul Ruiz, “Crying Over Spilled Coffee,” Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, May 1, 1995.
  45. ^ James Reston, Jr., A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial (Arcade, 2017), p. 184.
  46. ^ a b Esther and Franklin Schmidt, “Passion for Tradition”, Art and Antiques, October 1999, p. 93.
  47. ^ Sylvia Moreno, “Studio Settles Suit Brought by Sculptor,” Washington Post, February 14, 1998, M1.
  48. ^ Thomas E. Luebke, Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (United States Commission of Fine Arts, 2013)
  49. ^ a b James M. Goode, Washington Sculpture: A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation's Capital (Johns Hopkins, 2008), p. 316.
  50. ^ "Art and Justice". Frederick Hart – Sculptor. December 14, 2018. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  51. ^ "Jim Henson Memorial". Jay Hall Carpenter. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  52. ^ "Frederick E. Hart Bio". Frederick E. Hart Foundation for Educational Opportunity. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  53. ^ "Sogoyan". Sogoian. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  54. ^ "Meet the Art World's Rising Stars". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
  55. ^ Carolyn Mooney, The Chronicle Review, March 21, 2008.

Bibliography edit

External links edit

  • Official website
  • New York Times Magazine Obituary by Tom Wolfe

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Frederick Elliott Hart November 3 1943 August 13 1999 was an American sculptor The creator of hundreds of public monuments private commissions portraits and other works of art Hart is most famous for Ex Nihilo a part of his Creation Sculptures at Washington National Cathedral and The Three Servicemen also known as The Three Soldiers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D C 1 Frederick HartBornFrederick Elliott HartNovember 3 1943Atlanta GeorgiaDiedAugust 13 1999 1999 08 14 aged 55 Baltimore MarylandNationalityAmericanEducationUniversity of South Carolina Did not graduate George Washington University Did not graduate American University Did not graduate Known forSculptureNotable workEx Nihilo Washington National Cathedral The Three Soldiers Vietnam Veterans Memorial James Earl Carter Presidential Statue Georgia State CapitolEx Nihilo 1978 1984 Working within the figurative tradition of American Beaux Arts sculpture Hart s approach was that of a craftsman With little formal schooling he developed his skills on the job learning ancient techniques from master carvers 2 Hart modeled his work in clay Many of his larger pieces were carved in Italian marble or limestone or cast in bronze Throughout his career Hart explored themes of beauty and spirituality consciousness and identity sculpting in transparent and semi transparent acrylic materials using a process he patented 3 1 Strongly influenced by the dramatic poses of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Anna Hyatt Huntington as well as the naturalism of Augustus Saint Gaudens and Daniel Chester French 4 Hart s style was also shaped by that of Auguste Rodin 5 especially in the way he conveyed movement experimented with abstract forms and pushed the boundaries of traditional figurative art 6 7 8 According to J Carter Brown Director Emeritus of the National Gallery of Art It is breathtaking to see an artist with the technical abilities and devotion to craft of Frederick Hart combine these gifts with an ability to go to the brink with them but somehow keep the inner emotional intellectual and spiritual force of the work dominant 9 In the words of Tom Wolfe Rick is and I do not say this lightly America s greatest sculptor 10 Contents 1 Early life 2 Artistic career 2 1 Washington National Cathedral 2 2 Creation Sculptures 2 3 Vietnam Veterans Memorial 2 4 James Earl Carter Presidential Statue 2 5 Works in acrylic 3 Later life 4 Awards and accolades 5 Legacy 6 Notable works 7 Gallery 8 References 9 Bibliography 10 External linksEarly life editFrederick Rick Hart was born in Atlanta Georgia to Joanna Elliott and Frederick William Hart a heavy drinker who had served in the United States Navy during World War II 11 Hart s older brother also named Frederick William died as an infant Hart s mother contracted scarlet fever and died in 1945 when Hart was two 12 As he grew up and his relationship with his father suffered Hart became known as a troublemaker and he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother and aunt in Horry County South Carolina 13 Hart s father began working as a newspaper reporter in Atlanta and married Myrtis Mildred Hailey in 1947 Half sister Chesley Hart was born in 1949 In 1956 they moved to Virginia near Washington D C and Hart rejoined his family Although his relationship with his father continued to deteriorate Hart and his half sister Chesley became good friends 14 Hart was an avid reader but a troubled student After failing ninth grade he was sent back to South Carolina to live with his Aunt Essie and to repeat the school year Teachers were worried he would fail out of high school The principal was almost certain that he would He challenged Hart to take the A C T to show how little he knew When Hart achieved a near perfect score the principal was stunned In 1959 he helped sixteen year old Hart gain early admission to the University of South Carolina in Columbia South Carolina 15 At the same time the Civil Rights Movement was gathering strength and the campaign to desegregate South Carolina s school system began In Columbia in 1961 African American students led 250 in a protest march against racial segregation 15 Hart was the only white student to join them I was just walking by Hart said I happened to know some of the demonstrators They were from Benedict College a black school in Columbia I went over and started talking to them That irritated the volunteer police who were used for riot control They told me to move along At that point I said Screw you And I joined the demonstration 16 Hart was expelled from the University of South Carolina thrown in jail and then chased out of town by the Ku Klux Klan 16 Artistic career editIn 1965 Hart s sister Chesley was diagnosed with leukemia Because her parents were unable to cope with the illness Chesley s Aunt Grace became her caregiver Hart tried to stem his family s disintegration by helping Aunt Grace as much as he could 12 The next year when she was just 16 Chesley died 12 In the turbulent period after her death Hart stumble d into a sculpture class at the Corcoran School of Art and was blown away 12 Mourning Chesley shaped what Hart would later describe as his moral responsibility as an artist 17 As he said Art must give hope to the darkness 18 It must be a part of life It must be an enriching ennobling and vital partner It should be a majestic presence in everyday life 17 Hart dropped out of the Corcoran then attended art classes at American University in Washington D C but dropped out again before receiving a degree 19 While working at Giorgio Gianetti Studio of Architectural Sculpture he assisted sculptors Felix de Weldon Carl Mose Don Turano and Heinz Warnecke 12 1 Hart was also using his time in Washington D C as an opportunity to study the public art of the nation s capital and absorb the naturalistic style of sculptor Daniel Chester French 4 6 Toward the end of the 1960s Hart began work on one of his earliest and most personal sculptures Family Years later Hart would say that Family was for him a way to come to terms with Chesley s death it was an effort to represent an idea of stability to capture a sense of belonging 14 The first casting Hart presented as a gift to his girlfriend in 1969 14 Stylistically Family signals Hart s tendency to straddle the line between Classical and Romantic sculptural traditions The heavy pyramidal form of Hart s Family evokes the solidity of French s Abraham Lincoln but the raw earthy contours set it apart and situate it within the Romantic tradition of Rodin Washington National Cathedral edit In 1967 Hart took a job as a clerk in the mail room at Washington National Cathedral He did so for the specific purpose of pestering Roger Morigi 20 Morigi was the Cathedral s legendary master carver an Italian immigrant who had carved the iconic frieze of the United States Supreme Court Building 21 Highly respected Morigi was a temperamental perfectionist who didn t tolerate incompetence and wasn t shy about sharing his opinions 22 Hart wanted Morigi to take him on as an apprentice In time it worked Morigi became his mentor Not only that he became a father figure to Hart who had long been estranged from his own parents 20 Working at the cathedral was the best experience of my learning life Hart said It taught me how to work I wanted to know and feel the discipline the mastery of stone carving and I learned that in the hours of working up on the scaffolding in the heat of summer and through the winter 4 At first Morigi put Hart to work on floral ornaments primarily ceiling bosses Because they were so high up and far from view any rookie mistakes would be less noticeable there but for Hart this meant scaling more than ten stories of scaffolding and working high up off the ground 20 As his training progressed Morigi gave him more responsibilities Hart carved reliefs motifs and gargoyles and sculpted a figure of Erasmus 23 He was on his way to becoming a master carver himself when the Cathedral Building Committee announced a major competition Creation Sculptures edit In 1971 the Washington National Cathedral Building Committee held a competition to determine the appearance of the west facade the main entrance of the Cathedral This was not just an important commission it was a radical break with tradition In the past the west facade of a Christian cathedral typically featured a depiction of the Last Judgment however the Cathedral Building Committee wanted Washington National Cathedral to be the exception Instead of the traditional image of judgment and destruction they wanted to emphasize a message of love and affirmation and so they specifically asked artists to focus on the theme of Creation 23 To an ambitious young artist like Hart it was an irresistible opportunity a compelling theme and a chance to see his own work carved in limestone over the main entrance of the Cathedral Interestingly too the committee was willing to consider nonrepresentational avant garde designs so for three years Hart sketched in clay 24 His original tympanum design from early 1974 was a wide bare space from which a woman s face emerges The Cathedral Building Committee rejected this submission as well as those of all the other artists Only three sculptors were invited to submit new proposals Hart was not one of them 24 Undeterred Hart submitted a revised design of his own Guided by the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the idea of a dynamic universe whirling into existence Hart developed a revolutionary unifying vision for the entire west facade 24 To the committee s approval he submitted new models for the central tympanum for the left and right tympana and for the figures on the trumeaux below them 25 In developing Ex Nihilo the central sculpture by far the largest of the group Hart studied the combination of figurative and abstract forms in Rodin s massive sculpture The Gates of Hell 26 27 The final full size version of Ex Nihilo spans 21 feet and stands two stories high 2 The spiraling forms that recur throughout Hart s Ex Nihilo suggest the spirals that are found in nature in sunflower heads nautiluses hurricanes and galaxies 28 Hart intended the title as a double reference to Aristotle out of nothing nothing can be made and the Bible everything is made out of nothing 29 For the central trumeau Hart sculpted an image of Adam and for the tympana on either side day and night 30 As a complete sculptural ensemble the Creation Sculptures constitute the most monumental commission for religious sculpture in the United States in the twentieth century 2 Vietnam Veterans Memorial edit Main article The Three Soldiers After laboring over the Creation Sculptures for ten years with the project approaching completion at last Hart began to look around Washington D C for new jobs 1 To submit a proposal for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Hart teamed up with architect Sheila Brady 31 Just as in the competition for the Cathedral Building Committee Hart s initial plan was not accepted His team placed third 31 However in response to the controversy over the winning architect s design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund tasked Hart as the most highly ranked sculptor in the competition to provide a sculptural component 32 Hart conceived a sculpture of three soldiers not at the apex of the wall as originally planned but 400 feet away from the wall as if looking for their own names 33 Hart had become a master carver in 1974 and instead of continuing to work exclusively as a carver he hoped to build on the success he had already won with more commissions sculpting national monuments 5 He would bring with him the time honored techniques he had learned at the Cathedral as an artisan among artisans even as he acquired a stronger sense of his own destiny as an original artist a sense of confidence in his own creative vision and capabilities Of his work on The Three Soldiers Hart said he would put the folds of those fatigue jackets and pants up against the folds of any carved medieval angel you can find 34 James Earl Carter Presidential Statue edit In the 1981 competition to design the Carter Presidential Library Hart was a principal of the winning team with Jova Daniels and Busby Architects Atlanta Georgia and EDAW Landscape Design Firm Alexandria Virginia 5 Hart was asked to provide a portrait of President Jimmy Carter and on June 7 1994 the statue of Jimmy Carter was unveiled at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta 2 Among the guests were Governor Zell Miller President Carter and Mrs Rosalynn Carter Hart said I am greatly honored to have been selected to sculpt President Carter a man who served our country in so many ways From the Camp David Accords and SALT II treaty that were among the achievements of his presidency to the myriad projects he has since undertaken on behalf of human and environmental needs In honor of President Carter s past work as a farmer as well as his environmental initiatives and his work on behalf of grassroots organizations I have sculpted him in bronze on a low pedestal in an informal pose dressed in khakis with his sleeves rolled up The gestures of the figure refer to the generosity of Carter s nature his eagerness to share a vision of justice and his unpretentious delight in spreading a message of brotherhood 35 Carter said he liked the portrayal It was that image that put me in the White House and the governor s office and I hope I can remain like that in the future he said 36 Works in acrylic edit In 1972 Hart opened his own sculpture studio to create original artwork and execute commissioned pieces 5 Hart modeled his figurative style on the dramatic poses and sensuous expressions that he admired in the work of the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini 27 Many were cast in bronze some were carved in marble or limestone but especially after the success of Herself 1984 Hart focused more and more on developing entirely new media for sculpture using transparent and semi transparent acrylic materials 1 37 As seen in Elegy 1990 Hart developed an original process for embedding one acrylic sculpture in another 3 With the liquid look of ice sculptures and their capacity to refract light these pieces are perhaps his most distinctive In these according to Hart The sculpture is defined purely by light It is a very delicate sense of image suggestive of dreams memories and visions 38 All the clear acrylic resin works are really the offspring of the Cathedral work Hart said They deal with being and non being In the Cathedral the figures emerge from something that is tangible from a mass of stone But more beautifully in a sense the clear acrylic figures emerge and disappear According to Hart the innovative sculptural medium creates a relationship between light and form and a sense of mystery around being and non being 38 In honor of the Pope s fifty years of priesthood Hart presented an acrylic work titled The Cross of the Millennium to Pope John Paul II in a ceremony at the Vatican in 1997 When it was unveiled Pope John Paul II called the sculpture a profound theological statement for our day 38 Hart sculpted a smaller version of The Cross of the Millennium cast and released as a limited edition 38 Hart hoped to use acrylic on a monumental scale for a public art project but died before he was able to do so 39 Today much of what he sculpted in acrylic remains in private collections 40 Among these pieces Hart s later works tend to be distinguished by an allusive rather than representational nature 40 Later life editHart supported local civic groups and environmental causes 41 He donated sculpture to benefit the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS and Operation Smile In 1995 he created and donated a memorial portrait of African American educator Ruby Middleton Forsythe to honor the local hero who devoted her life to teaching in a one room schoolhouse in a small town in South Carolina where Hart had grown up 42 While researching the Creation Sculptures Hart studied the Book of Genesis and became a Roman Catholic 15 He married Lindy Lain on December 1 1978 in a civil ceremony and on June 2 1980 their marriage was blessed at Saint Matthew s Cathedral 12 First son Frederick Lain Hart was born June 21 1980 and second son Alexander Thaddeus Hart was born January 7 1983 12 In 1997 Washington National Cathedral asked Hart to join a lawsuit accusing a major motion picture company of copyright infringement for the appropriation of Ex Nihilo in the 1997 film The Devil s Advocate 41 Over the course of the initial proceedings it soon became clear that the filmmakers had simply placed Ex Nihilo on a computer template removed one figure and then manipulated the figures 43 However Hart was cautious because in the 1990s plaintiffs in suits against major corporations were sometimes ridiculed in the media as part of public relations campaigns funded by the corporations themselves 44 During sessions at US Federal Court over the case that winter the strain on Hart was wincingly visible 45 As stress and mounting legal fees took a toll on Hart s health in 1998 he suffered a stroke 46 A federal judge ruled that unless a settlement could be reached the film s video release would be delayed until the case went to trial the motion picture company then agreed to edit the scene for future releases and to attach stickers to unedited videotapes to indicate they intended no relation between the sculpture in the film and Hart s work 47 After his stroke Hart had pursued a rigorous regimen of physical therapy to regain the use of his left arm He worked as arduously on his rehabilitation as he had on any work he ever created Expecting to recover fully he continued to sculpt almost every day He was unaware that cancer was invading his body Three weeks before he died he became debilitated by pneumonia It wasn t until a couple of days before the end that the rapidly spreading cancer was discovered 46 Hart died on August 13 1999 two days after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital diagnosed him with cancer 15 Awards and accolades edit 1980 awarded a patent for inventing a unique process of embedding one acrylic sculpture within another 3 1985 appointed to the U S Commission of Fine Arts a seven member committee that advises the U S Government on matters pertaining the arts and guides the architectural development of the nation s capital 48 1986 appointed to the Board of Trustees Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture Collection 1987 received the Henry Hering Award from the National Sculpture Society for sculpture in an architectural setting shared with architect Philip Frohman for Washington National Cathedral work 1 1987 participated in an invitational exhibit of works in Philadelphia in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the U S Constitution 1988 received the quadrennial Presidential Design Excellence Award for Vietnam Veterans Memorial work 1 1993 received an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of South Carolina for his ability to create art that uplifts the human spirit his commitment to the ideal that art must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life his skill in creating works that compel attention as they embrace the concerns of mankind and his contributions to the rich cultural heritage of our nation 1 1998 received the first annual Newington Cropsey Foundation Award for Excellence in the Arts 2004 awarded posthumously the National Medal of Arts the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States Government for his important body of work including the Washington National Cathedral s Creation Sculptures and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial s Three Soldiers which heralded a new age for contemporary public art Legacy editAccording to art historian James M Goode the most significant new figurative works to grace public spaces in Washington during the late twentieth century were created by Frederick Hart 49 While working with new materials made possible by modern technology Hart championed craftsmanship and naturalism and explored new themes He is admired for his animated compositions and attention to detail 49 At the time of its dedication Hart s The Three Soldiers was the first representation of an African American on the National Mall 50 Throughout his career Hart collaborated with sculptor Jay Hall Carpenter Once Hart s assistant now an award winning artist in his own right Carpenter has produced sculpture for the State Department the Smithsonian Institution and Canterbury Cathedral His recent work includes a portrait of Jim Henson 51 From 1996 to 1999 Hart s assistant was the Russian born sculptor Mikael F Sogoian 52 53 In his later years Hart became the center of a group of like minded artists poets and philosophers striving to move beyond the Modernist and Post Modernist categories which dominated the 20th century 15 Crediting Hart for a renewal of interest in the human figure in art in the early twenty first century one art critic and historian wrote in 2005 that The work of Frederick Hart is changing the world of art 8 54 Also in 2005 Songs of Grace was acquired by the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg Russia In 2008 the University of Louisville and the Louisville Ballet Louisville Kentucky premiered the ballet Between Stillness inspired by the sculpture Ex Nihilo 55 In September of the same year Ex Nihilo Fragment No 8 was installed at the Lightner Museum in Saint Augustine Florida 10 In May 2019 The Frederick Hart Studio Museum opened in Nashville Tennessee 10 Notable works editCreation Sculptures including Ex Nihilo West facade of Washington National Cathedral Commissioned in 1974 and dedicated between 1978 and 1984 James E Webb Bronze bust of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Administrator James E Webb for the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution 1982 The Three Soldiers Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D C Dedicated in 1984 Fauquier County Veterans Memorial 40 bronze collaboration with sculptor Jay Hall Carpenter in Warrenton Virginia 1991 James Earl Carter Presidential Statue Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta Georgia Dedicated in 1994 Senator Richard B Russell sculpture Rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington D C Dedicated in 1996 The Cross of the Millennium Acrylic sculpture presented to Pope John Paul II in 1997 in honor of 50 years of priesthood Songs of Grace Acrylic sculpture acquired in 2005 for the permanent collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg Russia Three Soldiers Detail Bronze sculpture installed in 2008 and dedicated by Jan C Scruggs Founder Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund at the Veterans Memorial Plaza Apalachicola Florida Gallery edit nbsp Ex Nihilo central tympanum Creation Sculptures Washington D C nbsp Adam central trumeau Creation Sculptures Washington D C nbsp Richard B Russell Russell Senate Office Building Washington D C References edit a b c d e f g h Frederick E Hart United States Commission of Fine Arts Retrieved January 29 2019 a b c d Tom Wolfe The Idealist in Frederick Hart Sculptor Hudson Hills Press 1994 p 13 a b c US 4347270 Hart Frederick E Decorative article published 1982 08 31 a b c Homan Potterton Metamorphosis Stone Carver to Artist in Frederick Hart Sculptor Hudson Hills Press 1994 p 19 a b c d The Emerging Flame The Work and Philosophy of Frederick E Hart Frederick E Hart Sculpture Group 1989 a b Donald Martin Reynolds Apotheosis of the Human Figure An Aesthetic of Evolutionary Humanism in Frederick Hart Sculptor Hudson Hills Press 1994 p 63 James F Cooper The Re enchantment of Public Art in Frederick Hart Sculptor Hudson Hills Press 1994 p 70 a b Michael Novak Beauty Is Truth The Changing of the Tides in Frederick Hart Changing Tides Hudson Hills Press 2005 p 1 J Carter Brown Frederick Hart Sculptor Hudson Hills Press 1995 p 11 a b c Museum Celebrating Renowned 20th Century Sculptor Frederick Hart to Open at Belmont Belmont University December 5 2018 Retrieved January 7 2019 Hart at Brookgreen Gardens Frederick Hart Sculptor January 13 2019 Retrieved January 15 2019 a b c d e f g Frederick Hart Chronology Frederick Hart official website Retrieved December 26 2018 Tom Wolfe The Idealist in Frederick Hart Sculptor Hudson Hills Press 1994 p 12 a b c Chesley Hart 1949 1966 Frederick Hart Sculptor January 13 2019 Retrieved January 15 2019 a b c d e Tom Wolfe Obituary The Lives They Lived Frederick Hart Archived January 9 2019 at the Wayback Machine New York Times Magazine January 2 2000 a b David Zinman Life in Horry The Horry Independent April 2 1998 5A a b Frederick Hart Installations Frederick Hart official website Retrieved January 14 2019 Frederick Hart Art Quotes Retrieved January 14 2019 Irvin Molotsky Frederick Hart 56 Designer of Vietnam Statue New York Times August 17 1999 C2 a b c Mr Hart and Master Morigi Frederick Hart Sculptor January 13 2019 Retrieved January 15 2019 Tony Mauro The Supreme Court s Own Commandments Legal Times March 2 2005 The Master Carver Gargoyle Washington National Cathedral official website a b Homan Potterton Metamorphosis Stone Carver to Artist in Frederick Hart Sculptor Hudson Hills Press 1994 p 20 a b c The Origin of Ex Nihilo Frederick Hart Sculptor December 14 2018 Retrieved January 15 2019 Washington National Cathedral Frederick Hart official website Retrieved January 5 2015 Frederick Turner On Ex Nihilo in Frederick Hart The Complete Works Butler Books 2007 p 24 a b Inspired by the Past Rodin and Bernini Frederick Hart Sculptor January 13 2019 Retrieved January 15 2019 Frederick Turner Evolution Out of Chaos The Creation Sculptures in Frederick Hart Sculptor Hudson Hills Press 1994 p 60 Frederick Turner Evolution Out of Chaos The Creation Sculptures in Frederick Hart Sculptor Hudson Hills Press 1994 p 59 Barbara Matusow The Passion of Frederick Hart Washingtonian November 1998 p 54 a b Robert Doubek Creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial The Inside Story McFarland and Company Inc 2015 p 127 Robert Doubek Creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial The Inside Story McFarland and Company Inc 2015 p 212 James M Goode Washington Sculpture A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation s Capital Johns Hopkins 2008 p 780 Attention to Detail Frederick Hart Sculptor January 14 2019 Retrieved January 15 2019 Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the James Earl Carter Presidential Statue Frederick Hart Sculptor January 10 2019 Retrieved January 15 2019 Statue of a Casual Jimmy Carter Is Formally Unveiled in Georgia Los Angeles Times Retrieved January 10 2019 Paul Richard Frederick Hart s Heavenly Bodies Washington Post August 20 2000 G1 a b c d Frederick Hart Acrylic Frederick Hart official website Retrieved December 26 2018 Robert Chase Transcending Tradition The Cast Acrylic Resin Works in Frederick Hart Sculptor Hudson Hills Press 1994 p 78 a b Robert Chase Transcending Tradition The Cast Acrylic Resin Works in Frederick Hart Sculptor Hudson Hills Press 1994 p 76 a b Jennifer Ordonez Portrait of the Artist as a Successful Man Fauquier News Loudon Extra December 28 1997 p 15 FREDERICK HART BIOGRAPHY November 3 2020 James Reston Jr A Rift in the Earth Art Memory and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial Arcade 2017 p 183 Paul Ruiz Crying Over Spilled Coffee Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting May 1 1995 James Reston Jr A Rift in the Earth Art Memory and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial Arcade 2017 p 184 a b Esther and Franklin Schmidt Passion for Tradition Art and Antiques October 1999 p 93 Sylvia Moreno Studio Settles Suit Brought by Sculptor Washington Post February 14 1998 M1 Thomas E Luebke Civic Art A Centennial History of the U S Commission of Fine Arts United States Commission of Fine Arts 2013 a b James M Goode Washington Sculpture A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation s Capital Johns Hopkins 2008 p 316 Art and Justice Frederick Hart Sculptor December 14 2018 Retrieved January 15 2019 Jim Henson Memorial Jay Hall Carpenter Retrieved January 19 2019 Frederick E Hart Bio Frederick E Hart Foundation for Educational Opportunity Retrieved August 2 2020 Sogoyan Sogoian Retrieved August 2 2020 Meet the Art World s Rising Stars Wall Street Journal Retrieved June 16 2019 Carolyn Mooney The Chronicle Review March 21 2008 Bibliography editFrederick Hart Sculptor Hudson Hills Press 1995 ISBN 1 55595 120 1 Frederick Hart Changing Tides Hudson Hills Press 2005 ISBN 978 1 55595 233 4 Frederick Hart The Complete Works Butler Books 2007 ISBN 1 884532 85 3External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Frederick Hart Official website New York Times Magazine Obituary by Tom Wolfe Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Frederick Hart sculptor amp oldid 1201663125, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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