"Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89". By William Grimes, December 23, 2016, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Kenneth Snelson, a sculptor who... Read full biography
"Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89". By William Grimes, December 23, 2016, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Kenneth Snelson, a sculptor who stitched together aluminum tubes with flexible stainless-steel wires to create seemingly lighter-than-air... Read full biography
"Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89". By William Grimes, December 23, 2016, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Kenneth Snelson, a sculptor who stitched together aluminum tubes with flexible stainless-steel wires to create seemingly lighter-than-air towers, arcs and cantilevers, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89. The cause was prostate cancer, his wife, Katherine, said. Mr. Snelson was a painting student at Black Mountain... Read full biography
"Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89". By William Grimes, December 23, 2016, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Kenneth Snelson, a sculptor who stitched together aluminum tubes with flexible stainless-steel wires to create seemingly lighter-than-air towers, arcs and cantilevers, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89. The cause was prostate cancer, his wife, Katherine, said. Mr. Snelson was a painting student at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the late 1940s when he became enchanted by the lectures on geometric forms delivered by a last-minute substitute teacher, Buckminster Fuller, the futurist inventor and father of the geodesic dome. In an experiment, Early X... Read full biography
"Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89". By William Grimes, December 23, 2016, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Kenneth Snelson, a sculptor who stitched together aluminum tubes with flexible stainless-steel wires to create seemingly lighter-than-air towers, arcs and cantilevers, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89. The cause was prostate cancer, his wife, Katherine, said. Mr. Snelson was a painting student at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the late 1940s when he became enchanted by the lectures on geometric forms delivered by a last-minute substitute teacher, Buckminster Fuller, the futurist inventor and father of the geodesic dome. In an experiment, Early X Piece (1948), Mr. Snelson took two X’s made from propeller-shaped pieces of plywood and suspended one over t... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (33)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
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
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 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
Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
1992
Seitz, William C
250 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists Observed
1986
Stein, Harvey
160 pages
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
SoHo, New York Downtown Mahhattan/Berliner Festwochen (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Block, Rene
431 pages
Beyond Modern Art
1976
Gottlieb, Carla
434 pages
A Decade of Sculpture The 1960s
1974
Busch, Julia
236 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1973
1973
Jaques Cattell Press
927 pages
Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development
1973
Johnson, Charlotte Buel
96 pages (color)
Icons and Images of the Sixties
1971
Calas, Nicolas and Elena
347 pages
American Artists of the 1960's School of Fine Arts, Centenial Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Boston University
60 pages
L'art Vivant aux Etats-Unis (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Fondation Maeght
164 pages (color)
Drawings: Exhibition of Contemporary American Drawings Fort Worth Art Center Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Hopkins, Henry (Preface); Peter Plagens, Essay
84 pages
Twentieth Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Lieberman, William
139 pages (color)
Plus by Minus, Today's Half Centu (Exhibition catalog)