Helaine Blumenfeld
| Helaine Blumenfeld | |
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Angels: Harmony, Asthall Manor, Asthall
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Ossip Zadkine |
| Spouse(s) | Yorick Blumenfeld |
| Awards |
Premio Pietrasanta nel Mondo, 2007 Honorary OBE, 2011 |
| Website | helaineblumenfeld |
Helaine Blumenfeld is an American sculptress. She lives in the United Kingdom and works there and in Pietrasanta, in Tuscany in central Italy. She designs large-scale sculptures in marble, which are then executed for her by Tuscan master sculptors. Examples of her work by are in the collections of Clare College, Cambridge, the Courtauld Gallery, the Smithsonian and the Tate, and two large-scale works in marble are installed in Hyde Park, in central London.
Blumenfeld completed a PhD at Columbia University in 1964, and then went to Paris to study art under Ossip Zadkine. Her first solo show was in 1966. In 1985 she had a joint show with Henry Moore in New York.
Blumenfeld is vice-president of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. In 2007 she won the Premio Pietrasanta nel Mondo. She received an honorary OBE in 2011.
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