Born in San Diego, California, on the day of the 75th running of the Kentucky Derby, Deborah Butterfield credits this event as determining her career as a modernist sculptor of horses. Her work is a... Read full biography
Born in San Diego, California, on the day of the 75th running of the Kentucky Derby, Deborah Butterfield credits this event as determining her career as a modernist sculptor of horses. Her work is a combination of abstraction and reality. She uses found objects*, related to both horses and the... Read full biography
Born in San Diego, California, on the day of the 75th running of the Kentucky Derby, Deborah Butterfield credits this event as determining her career as a modernist sculptor of horses. Her work is a combination of abstraction and reality. She uses found objects*, related to both horses and the discards of modern society, and applies these symbolic objects to armaments that are realistic shapes of horses' bodies. The overall effect is of a large, strong, loveable animal, gentle and calm, and it... Read full biography
Born in San Diego, California, on the day of the 75th running of the Kentucky Derby, Deborah Butterfield credits this event as determining her career as a modernist sculptor of horses. Her work is a combination of abstraction and reality. She uses found objects*, related to both horses and the discards of modern society, and applies these symbolic objects to armaments that are realistic shapes of horses' bodies. The overall effect is of a large, strong, loveable animal, gentle and calm, and it is obvious from the gentle personality conveyed by the objects that she has a strong affinity and understanding of her subjects. Butterfield received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of California at Davis where she was a student of... Read full biography
Born in San Diego, California, on the day of the 75th running of the Kentucky Derby, Deborah Butterfield credits this event as determining her career as a modernist sculptor of horses. Her work is a combination of abstraction and reality. She uses found objects*, related to both horses and the discards of modern society, and applies these symbolic objects to armaments that are realistic shapes of horses' bodies. The overall effect is of a large, strong, loveable animal, gentle and calm, and it is obvious from the gentle personality conveyed by the objects that she has a strong affinity and understanding of her subjects. Butterfield received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of California at Davis where she was a student of modernists William T Wiley, Robert Arneson, and Wayne Thiebaud. Her training in ceramics and sculpture inc... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (34)
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A Legacy of Giving: The Anna and Frank Hall Collection (The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln) (Exhibition catalog)
2012
Embury, Stuart; Brandon K. Ruud; Norman Geske; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Introduction
80 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
2005
Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro)
246 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Deborah Butterfield
2003
Gordon, Robert
0 pages (color)
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Deborah Butterfield
1996
Stofflet, Mary
72 pages (color)
The Art of the Horse
1995
Fairley, John
192 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection
1993
Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors)
414 pages (color)
Horses The Art of Deborah Butterfield (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Kuspit, Donald/Marcia Tucker
96 pages (color)
American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions
1990
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
638 pages
Yesterday and Tomorow California Women Artists
1989
Moore, Sylvia (editor)
378 pages
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream
1988
Rosen, Randy, et al
300 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985
Albright, Thomas
349 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
Dallas Museum of Art Selected Works
1984
Bromberg, Anne R
219 pages (color)
The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How
1984
DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones
320 pages
New Art
1984
Freeman, Phyllis
207 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Fifty Northwest Artists (photos of artists by Marsha Burns)
1983
Guenther, Bruce
118 pages (color)
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Trenton, Patricia
197 pages (color)
Animals in American Art 1880's-1980's (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Nassau County Museum
64 pages (color)
Art in the Seventies
1980
Lucie-Smith, Edward
128 pages (color)
Gardens of Art: The Sculpture Park at the Frederik Meijer Gardens