Mary Callery is known for her linear, open sculptures that are like drawings in metal. Her stick-figure acrobats and figures, poised in hair-edge equilibrium, or arranged in frieze-like bands, move in space and invite air to flow between their outlines.
Callery came from a wealthy background. Born in New York City and raised in Pittsburgh, she was the daughter of James Callery, president of the Diamond National Bank and chairman of the board of the Pittsburgh Railways Company. She became (showing 500 of 4083 characters). |
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