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1904 Delaplane, Virginia - 1980 Delaplane, Virginia. Known for: Assemblages, figural sculpture, erotica.
Born 1904, died 1980, Delaplane, Virginia. Steve Ashby lived his entire life in a small town in Virginia, an unincorporated community roughly fifty miles west of Washington, DC. The son of an... Read full biography
Born 1904, died 1980, Delaplane, Virginia. Steve Ashby lived his entire life in a small town in Virginia, an unincorporated community roughly fifty miles west of Washington, DC. The son of an emancipated slave, he was the second of twelve children. Outside of a brief stint as a restaurant waiter,... Read full biography
Born 1904, died 1980, Delaplane, Virginia. Steve Ashby lived his entire life in a small town in Virginia, an unincorporated community roughly fifty miles west of Washington, DC. The son of an emancipated slave, he was the second of twelve children. Outside of a brief stint as a restaurant waiter, Ashby spent most of his life working the soil as a farmer and gardener until he retired in 1950. Although he had tinkered with small-scale wooden sculptures throughout his life, it was only after the... Read full biography
Born 1904, died 1980, Delaplane, Virginia. Steve Ashby lived his entire life in a small town in Virginia, an unincorporated community roughly fifty miles west of Washington, DC. The son of an emancipated slave, he was the second of twelve children. Outside of a brief stint as a restaurant waiter, Ashby spent most of his life working the soil as a farmer and gardener until he retired in 1950. Although he had tinkered with small-scale wooden sculptures throughout his life, it was only after the death of his wife in 1960 that he started to experiment with figural sculptures. Assemblages of found materials such as plywood, lumber, scraps of hardware, discarded children’s toys, and photographs, Ashby’s “fixing ups,” as he called them, combined... Read full biography
Born 1904, died 1980, Delaplane, Virginia. Steve Ashby lived his entire life in a small town in Virginia, an unincorporated community roughly fifty miles west of Washington, DC. The son of an emancipated slave, he was the second of twelve children. Outside of a brief stint as a restaurant waiter, Ashby spent most of his life working the soil as a farmer and gardener until he retired in 1950. Although he had tinkered with small-scale wooden sculptures throughout his life, it was only after the death of his wife in 1960 that he started to experiment with figural sculptures. Assemblages of found materials such as plywood, lumber, scraps of hardware, discarded children’s toys, and photographs, Ashby’s “fixing ups,” as he called them, combined a crude, expressionistic sculptural style with wry humor and occasionally overt eroticism. While two disco dancers innocently flirt on the... Read full biography
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Keywords (11)
Art Method
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Subject
- •Eroticism, Erotica
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC