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 haysta...