Akron Art Museum
70 East Market Street
Akron, OH 44308-2084
Akron, OH 44308-2084
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1922 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1983 Worthington, Massachusetts. Known for: Whimsical junk assemblages sculpture, industrial elements.
Richard Stankiewicz Dies, Pioneer of 'Junk' Sculpture, by Michae Brenson, Obituary, The New York Times, March 29, 1983. Richard Stankiewicz, the American sculptor whose whimsical scrap-iron... Read full biography
Richard Stankiewicz Dies, Pioneer of 'Junk' Sculpture, by Michae Brenson, Obituary, The New York Times, March 29, 1983. Richard Stankiewicz, the American sculptor whose whimsical scrap-iron constructions made him one of the pioneers of ''junk art'' and assemblage, died of cancer Sunday in... Read full biography
Richard Stankiewicz Dies, Pioneer of 'Junk' Sculpture, by Michae Brenson, Obituary, The New York Times, March 29, 1983. Richard Stankiewicz, the American sculptor whose whimsical scrap-iron constructions made him one of the pioneers of ''junk art'' and assemblage, died of cancer Sunday in Worthington, Mass. He was 60 years old. Mr. Stankiewicz established his reputation by taking pipes, nuts, bolts, screws, clockworks and other scrap from junkyards and welding them into carefully ordered... Read full biography
Richard Stankiewicz Dies, Pioneer of 'Junk' Sculpture, by Michae Brenson, Obituary, The New York Times, March 29, 1983. Richard Stankiewicz, the American sculptor whose whimsical scrap-iron constructions made him one of the pioneers of ''junk art'' and assemblage, died of cancer Sunday in Worthington, Mass. He was 60 years old. Mr. Stankiewicz established his reputation by taking pipes, nuts, bolts, screws, clockworks and other scrap from junkyards and welding them into carefully ordered sculptural compositions that both respected the fragmentary, arbitrary character of the materials and transformed them. ''I take material that is already degenerating, flaking and rusting, and then try to make something beautiful of it,'' Mr. Stankiewicz... Read full biography
Richard Stankiewicz Dies, Pioneer of 'Junk' Sculpture, by Michae Brenson, Obituary, The New York Times, March 29, 1983. Richard Stankiewicz, the American sculptor whose whimsical scrap-iron constructions made him one of the pioneers of ''junk art'' and assemblage, died of cancer Sunday in Worthington, Mass. He was 60 years old. Mr. Stankiewicz established his reputation by taking pipes, nuts, bolts, screws, clockworks and other scrap from junkyards and welding them into carefully ordered sculptural compositions that both respected the fragmentary, arbitrary character of the materials and transformed them. ''I take material that is already degenerating, flaking and rusting, and then try to make something beautiful of it,'' Mr. Stankiewicz said in 1958. ''It should hit people over the head and make them ask, 'What is beauty?' ''. Mr. Stankiewicz's sculptures ha... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (19)
All MuseumsBuffalo AKG Art Museum
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Chrysler Museum of Art
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
480 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215-3886Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
University of Miami
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146McNay Art Museum
6000 North New Braunfels Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78209-0069Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611-2604Museum of Modern Art, New York
11 West 53rd Street
New York City, NY 10019Portland Art Museum, Oregon
1219 Sw Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205RISD Museum
224 Benefit Street
20 North Main Street
Providence, RI 02903-2723Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10128Storm King Art Center
Old Pleasant Hill Road
P.O.Box 280
Mountainville, NY 10953-0280The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797The Dayton Art Institute
456 Belmonte Park North
Dayton, OH 45405Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014