It is difficult for those growing up within contemporary institutions of culture (museums, universities, art schools, etc) to appreciate the vitality and scope of 20th Century figure sculpture.

It's also difficult, especially for contemporary Americans, to appreciate those qualities of figure sculpture that cannot be found in a wax museum.

(and here is an informative historical essay on that topic - by American sculptor, Michael Keropian)


The problem is that, unless included within the canonical narrative of confrontational Modernism, the figure sculptors of this period have been locked out of major art museums around the world.


Hopefully --- those doors will eventually open to them -- but in the meantime, here are the things that I wish I could see in person.


Being just one, insignificant person -- I feel no compulsion to show things I don't like.


I have a special interest in sculptures of beautiful women -- heroic men -- and anything that approaches a profound, religious sentiment (so I'm especially interested in the liturgical work from the living Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions. - since I've found so little)

But I have no interest in the weird, the hilarious, the ugly, the cutesy, or anything that belongs in an amusement park or museum of contemporary art.

Nor a museum of natural history - which is to say that anatomical accuracy does not interest me either.

So, I really have no interest in 99% of the figure sculpture being made in America today.



So maybe you won't find anything here that interests you -- but if you do -- and if you have taken pictures of things that are similar ---- I would certainly appreciate whatever you can send me.

....Chris Miller, Forest Park, Illinois

































































































































































































































































































































Shahid Hussein












Eja Van Den Berg

























Satoru Kitagou












Waldemar Grzimek












Georg Arfmann












Egidio Casarotti












Alfredo Ceschiatti












Xavier Duver












Tullio Figini












Martin Mayer












Vasyl Yarych












Arvid Knoppel

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