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1922 Boston, Massachusetts - 2008 Boston, Massachusetts. Known for: Portrait and abstract sculpture and painting.
Kahlil Gibran (`ka-lil j-'brän) 1922-2008 (sometimes known as Kahlil George Gibran - note the artist's preferred Americanized spelling of his first name) was a painter and sculptor born in Boston,... Read full biography
Kahlil Gibran (`ka-lil j-'brän) 1922-2008 (sometimes known as Kahlil George Gibran - note the artist's preferred Americanized spelling of his first name) was a painter and sculptor born in Boston, Massachusetts; he lived in that city all his life. A student of the painter Karl Zerbe at the School... Read full biography
Kahlil Gibran (`ka-lil j-'brän) 1922-2008 (sometimes known as Kahlil George Gibran - note the artist's preferred Americanized spelling of his first name) was a painter and sculptor born in Boston, Massachusetts; he lived in that city all his life. A student of the painter Karl Zerbe at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibran first received acclaim as a magic realist painter in the late 1940s when he exhibited with other emerging artists later known as the "Boston Expressionists."... Read full biography
Kahlil Gibran (`ka-lil j-'brän) 1922-2008 (sometimes known as Kahlil George Gibran - note the artist's preferred Americanized spelling of his first name) was a painter and sculptor born in Boston, Massachusetts; he lived in that city all his life. A student of the painter Karl Zerbe at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibran first received acclaim as a magic realist painter in the late 1940s when he exhibited with other emerging artists later known as the "Boston Expressionists." . Called a "master of materials," as both artist and restorer, Gibran turned to sculpture in the mid-fifties. In 1972, in an effort to separate his identity from his famous relative and namesake, the author of The Prophet, Gibran Kahlil Gibran, who... Read full biography
Kahlil Gibran (`ka-lil j-'brän) 1922-2008 (sometimes known as Kahlil George Gibran - note the artist's preferred Americanized spelling of his first name) was a painter and sculptor born in Boston, Massachusetts; he lived in that city all his life. A student of the painter Karl Zerbe at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibran first received acclaim as a magic realist painter in the late 1940s when he exhibited with other emerging artists later known as the "Boston Expressionists." . Called a "master of materials," as both artist and restorer, Gibran turned to sculpture in the mid-fifties. In 1972, in an effort to separate his identity from his famous relative and namesake, the author of The Prophet, Gibran Kahlil Gibran, who was cousin both to his father Nicholas Gibran and his mother Rose Gibran, the sculptor co-authored with his wif... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Bas Relief, Wall Mounted Sculpture
- •Direct Carver, Hand Carving
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Aluminum/Aluminium
- •Bronze
- •Charcoal
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Iron, Cast Iron
- •Marble
- •Oil Paint
- •Steel, Stainless Steel
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Portrait Bust Sculpture
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Statue Sculpture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Jamaica
- •Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Association
- •Copley Society of Boston-
- •National Sculpture Society
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Copley Master, Copley Society
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
- •Sculpture Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Copley Society of Boston
- •National Institute of Arts and Letters
- •National Sculpture Society-
- •Provincetown Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts