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Milton Elting HebaldNew York, New York, 1917 - 2015, West Hollywood, California

http://miltonhebald.com/

After 50 Years Abroad, Acclaimed Sculptor, Milton Hebald, Has Returned to the United States

Milton Hebald, the award-winning contemporary baroque sculptor from New York City, has

returned to United States at the age of 91. Los Angeles, CA (PRWeb) September 24, 2008

-- Milton Hebald, the award-winning contemporary baroque sculptor from New York City, has returned to United States at the age of 91. His acclaimed sculptures, in various mediums such as bronze, wood and terracotta, are inspired by the different forms of love: familial, platonic, romantic and erotic; ultimately conveying his unswerving faith in mankind by the humor and passion he molds into his forms.

After winning the Prix de Rome at the American Academy in 1953, Milton Hebald settled in Bracciano, Italy.

Remaining committed to his roots in New York, Hebald was commissioned for various public works for the city. In 1961 Pan Am commissioned Hebald to create a "Zodiac Screen" for their terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport, which at 220 feet was the largest sculpture in the world. Another notable Hebald sculpture is the iconic "Romeo & Juliet" bronze that stands in front of the Delacourt Shakespeare Theatre in New York's Central Park. Milton Hebald also has a great presence throughout the United States and abroad, including many public works in Los Angeles, Florida and Italy. Perhaps one of Hebald's most prized sculptures is the headstone he was commissioned to build by the family of James Joyce. As a scholar of Joyce and his works, Hebald's sculpture is a famed rendition of the prolific writer. The sculpture still rests on top of Joyce's grave in Zurich, Switzerland. Milton Hebald currently resides in the emerging arts community of Culver City, California, where he continues to sculpt in terracotta, producing several new sculptures each month. He recently donated a terracotta bust of the American poet, Walt Whitman, to the Culver City Senior Center, the location of his current studio.

Milton Hebald is represented by the Harmon-Meek Gallery in Naples, a gallery that has represented him since 1969. The Harmon-Meek Gallery opens for the 2008 arts season on October 20th. Hebald will also have an exhibition in Los Angeles in 2009. Hebald's works can also be seen in the permanent collections of the Whitney and the Smithsonian.

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Milton Elting Hebald was born May 24, 1917 in New York

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Source: Askart.com

A sculptor working primarily in bronze but also in plaster, terra cotta, and wood, Milton Hebald does figural pieces that have strong diagonal lines and Baroque theatricality. He is interested in the roots of sculpture from the eastern Mediterranean tradition through the Renaissance and Baroque periods, especially Bernini of Rome. His most famous work is the Zodiac group, a 220-foot-long bronze in the Pan American Terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport.

Source: Wichita State University, Kansas

Milton Hebald began sculpting in grammar school. After brief studies at the Art Students League in 1927 and the National Academy of Design in 1931, he transferred to the Beaux Arts Institute of Design in 1932, where he worked in the style of direct carving. At the conclusion of his three-year study at the Institute, Hebald taught classes through Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Federal Art Project. He served in the military in 1945, and in 1946 accepted a position at Cooper Union. Hebald taught at Cooper Union until 1953 while teaching concurrently at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art. In 1955, he received the Prix de Rome and spent a year residency at the American Academy in Rome. The Roman Baroque exerted a strong influence on Hebald during his first year; as Frank Getlein, the artist's biographer, has stated, "Hebald practices the Baroque, extols the Baroque, and thoroughly enjoys the Baroque, while at the same time gently mocking its pretensions and contrasting its grandeurs with human frailties." Hebald continues to live in Rome.

(of Wichita's sculpture of same title):

Harvest shows Hebald's "identification with his Roman past" in the Baroque curves that dominate every contour of the work. A mother and child pick fruit from a tree limb above; the sculpture may also act as a fountain, which delicately showers the figures from hidden holes in the limb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Hebald 2-24-2011

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Milton Hebald (born May 24, 1917) is a sculptor who specializes in figurative bronze works. Twenty-three of his works are displayed in public in New York City, including the statues of Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest in front of the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.[1] His major work is a 220-foot (67 m) , 12-piece "Zodiac Screen", then the largest sculpture in the world, commissioned by Pan-American Airlines for its terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, and now owned and stored by the New York Port Authority.

Early lifeHebald was born in New York City on May 24, 1917. He studied at several New York art schools, starting at the age of ten, including the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design.[2] In New York City he taught at the Art Students League, The Cooper Union, American Artists School, and privately . He also taught at the Skowhegan School of Art, in Maine, and at the University of Minnesota. He has been a guest lecturer and teacher at many other academic institutions.

Hebald had his first one-man show at the age of 20, in New York City. He is currently exclusively represented by the Pushkin Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Hebald was awarded the Prix de Rome Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome in 1955, 1956 and 1957. He stayed in Italy, living in Rome, with his wife, painter, Cecille Rosner Hebald, until 1970 when they moved to Bracciano, 25 miles outside Rome. In 2004, six years after his wife's death, he returned to the United States. As of 2008[update], Hebald lives in Los Angeles.[2]

WorkHebald created a series of pieces in 1960 featuring representations of the Zodiac on the exterior of the Pan American World Airways Worldport at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. A 200-foot-long (61 m) and 24-foot-high (7.3 m) windscreen in front of the terminal's entrance was adorned with bas relief representations of the 12 signs of the zodiac, visible from both outside and inside the terminal building.[3] When it was created, it was the largest such work in the world.[4] As part of renovations, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey removed the sculptures, which sit unused in a hangar at the airport.[5]

Hebald has created a pair of statues in front of Central Park's Delacorte Theatre. The bronze unveiled in 1966 features Prospero, the protagonist of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. The piece was a gift of George T. Delacorte Jr., who also donated the Delacorte Theatre.[6] A 14-foot (4.3 m) bronze of Prospero and Miranda by Hebald was dedicated in Central Park in honor of Joseph Papp, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival.[7] Hebald's sculpture of Romeo and Juliet was dedicated outside the Delacorte Theater in 1977.[8]

Hebald created a bust of operatic tenor Richard Tucker for Richard Tucker Park, located in front of Lincoln Center, at the corner of Broadway and Columbus Avenue at 66th Street. Dedicated on April 20, 1980, the statue consists of a larger-than-life size bronze portrait on a 6-foot-high (1.8 m) granite pedestal.[9][10] The original 1978 proposal for a seven-foot statue of Tucker, depicted in the role of Des Grieux in the opera Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini, had been opposed by a member of Manhattan Community Board 7, who felt that the piece should have been placed in the Metropolitan Opera Hall of Fame, and not on public property.[11]

In Zurich, Switzerland, Hebald was commissioned to do a life sized, full figure portrait of James Joyce, for Joyce's tomb. He also made a bust of British novelist Anthony Burgess, to whom he once also sold a house near Rome. In Los Angeles, two of his bronze works were commissioned for the Adam's sculpture garden surrounding the Stuart Ketchum YMCA, the "Olympiad" in tribute to the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles, and "Handstand", depicting an acrobatic young boy which echos the "Y" logo.

References

1.^ Home page, Milton Hebald. Accessed October 28, 2008.

2.^ a b Milton Hebald, New York City Statues. Accessed October 30, 2008.

3.^ Knox, Sanka. "IDLEWILD SKYLINE GETS AN ADDITION; New Pan Am Terminal Looks Like Parasol to Motorists Approaching Airport", June 3, 1960. Accessed October 28, 2008.

4.^ "BIOGRAPHY for Milton Hebald", AskART.com. Accessed October 28, 2008.

5.^ Staff. "Outrage.(Pan American airport terminal in disrepair)", Architectural Review, December 2000. Accessed October 28, 2008.

6.^ The Tempest, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, December 1, 2001. Accessed October 28, 2008.

7.^ Staff. "Statue in Park Dedicated to Papp", The New York Times, June 26, 1973. Accessed October 28, 2008.

8.^ Romeo and Juliet, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, December 27, 2001. Accessed October 28, 2008.

9.^ Richard Tucker, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed August 17, 2008.

10.^ Richard Tucker, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed August 17, 2008.

11.^ Pace, Eric. "Tucker Statue for Park Studied", The New York Times, May 9, 1978. Accessed August 17, 2008.