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Born 1949 San Diego, California. Known for: Abstract mixed-media horse sculpture.
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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Art Method
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Art Pottery
- •Bronze
- •Ceramic Art, Porcelain, Design and/or Decoration
- •Ceramics
- •Copper, Coppersmithing
- •Found Objects, Junk, Recycles
- •Metal, Metalwork, Metal Plates, Metal Point
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Plaster
- •Steel, Stainless Steel
- •Wire
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Horses: Equestrian Genre, in Landscape and/or Portraits
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Art Teacher
- •Wayne Thiebaud
Chronology
- •Early 21st Century
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Anna and Frank Hall Collection, Sheldon Gallery, Lincoln
- •Hallmark Cards, Inc.
- •Karen and Robert Duncan Collection, Lincoln NE
- •Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Horse Subject Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art