Howard Newman is a fine artist living in Newport, Rhode Island. He is best known for his drawings and bronze sculptures, which have been compared with Umberto Boccioni’s Futurist* sculpture and Raymond Duchamp-Villon’s mechanical abstractions, and are described as “combining elements of human figures and machines into tightly interlocking geometric shapes that he assembles from separately cast pieces.”

Hilton Kramer of The New York Times wrote “Mr. Newman is something of a phenomenon. His art has the look of something that was born fully matured. It is unusual for a young sculptor to produce work as refined, as assured, as thoroughly knowing, as Howard Newman's.”

Vivian Raynor, also of The New York Times, descr...