Sculptor Richard Stankiewicz, born in Philadelphia in 1922, was most closely associated with the Assemblage movement. He studied with Hans Hofmann at the Hoffman School between 1945 and 1949, and, in Europe, with Fernand Leger in 1950 and Ossip Zadkine in 1950-51.
After his return to the United States, he began to create works from scrap metal and discarded mechanical and household equipment, integrating their forms into compositions that could be both formally elegant and witty ("Kabuki (showing 500 of 1114 characters). |
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