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Grand Rapids Art Museum, Published 1997. Paperback, 68 pp.; 28 x 28 cm; illustrated throughout with color plates of sculpture and paintings.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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In Very Good condition. Oversized square white pictorial paper covers, front showing a black and white checkered sphere on a pale ground, rear repeating the image with the grounds reversed. Light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild shelf wear, and rubbing with some color loss along edges of rear cover. A more prominent diagonal crease runs in from the bottom corner of the rear cover. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Kinnebrew is a Grand Rapids sculptor whose Fish Ladder at the Sixth Street Dam, a walkthrough concrete sculpture that doubles as a working fish passage, is one of the city's landmarks and now has a park named for it. He also designed the Grand Rapids city logo still carried on street signs and municipal vehicles, and did design work for the Howard Miller Clock Company in Zeeland. This catalogue accompanied Kinnebrew: One Man, Many Visions, the first collaboration between the Frederik Meijer Gardens and the Grand Rapids Art Museum, shown at both sites in the autumn of 1997. It gathers fifty works in fabricated steel, bronze and cast iron, running from hard-edged geometric solids sited on lawns to heavily worked figurative bronzes, alongside the surrealist and social commentary paintings he had lately turned to. Curated by E. Jane Connell, with contributions from Kay Redfield Jamison of Johns Hopkins, author of Touched with Fire, the Chicago critic Michael Bulka, the art historian Sue Taylor, and Kinnebrew's long-time mentor Duncan Littlefair. Color plates throughout, closing with a biography whose collections list runs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim, the Walker Art Center and the Library of Congress. Kinnebrew took the first Michigan Governors' Award given in sculpture, in 1976, and National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1973 and 1974. Designed by BBK Studio, underwritten by The Dexter Foundation.