FREDERICK ELLIOTT HART (USA, 1943 -1999).
"Heroic spirit", 1991.
Resin. Copy 403/1000.
With wooden box for transport.
Signed "Hart" on the base.
Measurements: 66 x 40 x 37 cm; 58 x 89 x 60 cm (box).
Frederick Elliott Hart was an American sculptor, known for his public monuments and for his sculptures at the Washington National Cathedral. With little formal education, he developed his skills on the job, learning ancient techniques from master carvers. Many of his larger pieces were carved in marble or Italian limestone, or cast in bronze. Throughout his career, Hart explored themes of beauty and spirituality, consciousness and identity, sculpting in transparent and semi-transparent acrylic materials using a process he patented.
Strongly influenced by the dramatic poses of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Anna Hyatt Huntington, as well as the naturalism of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French, Hart's style was also shaped by that of Auguste Rodin, especially in the way he conveyed movement.