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1941 Newfoundland, Canada - 2024 Manhatten, New York. Known for: Sculptor-geometric abstraction.
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Jackie Winsor, a sculptor in abstract style born in Newfoundland, is the descendant of three hundred years of Canadian ships' captains and farmers. She and her family moved to Boston when she was an... Read full biography
Jackie Winsor, a sculptor in abstract style born in Newfoundland, is the descendant of three hundred years of Canadian ships' captains and farmers. She and her family moved to Boston when she was an adolescent, and later she earned a M.F.A. in art at Douglass College of Rutgers University in 1967.... Read full biography
Jackie Winsor, a sculptor in abstract style born in Newfoundland, is the descendant of three hundred years of Canadian ships' captains and farmers. She and her family moved to Boston when she was an adolescent, and later she earned a M.F.A. in art at Douglass College of Rutgers University in 1967. Winsor is known for her clear geometric figures. Officially her place is among the post-minimalists, but in her work, Jackie Winsor harks back to classical sculpture such as that of Constantin... Read full biography
Jackie Winsor, a sculptor in abstract style born in Newfoundland, is the descendant of three hundred years of Canadian ships' captains and farmers. She and her family moved to Boston when she was an adolescent, and later she earned a M.F.A. in art at Douglass College of Rutgers University in 1967. Winsor is known for her clear geometric figures. Officially her place is among the post-minimalists, but in her work, Jackie Winsor harks back to classical sculpture such as that of Constantin Brancusi. Her sculptures of rope, brick, saplings, and pine have a certain brute strength and power. Characteristic works are a half-dome of bricks set into cement, a bundle of trees wrapped around the middle with hemp (resembling a new form of haystack), a... Read full biography
Jackie Winsor, a sculptor in abstract style born in Newfoundland, is the descendant of three hundred years of Canadian ships' captains and farmers. She and her family moved to Boston when she was an adolescent, and later she earned a M.F.A. in art at Douglass College of Rutgers University in 1967. Winsor is known for her clear geometric figures. Officially her place is among the post-minimalists, but in her work, Jackie Winsor harks back to classical sculpture such as that of Constantin Brancusi. Her sculptures of rope, brick, saplings, and pine have a certain brute strength and power. Characteristic works are a half-dome of bricks set into cement, a bundle of trees wrapped around the middle with hemp (resembling a new form of haystack), a round coil of rope as thick as a truck tire, and a grid of criss-crossed saplings bound at the intersections with unraveled hemp. Often based o... Read full biography
