biografía de Richard E. FILIPOWSKI (1923-2008)

Lugar de nacimiento: Poland

Direcciones: Lexington, MA

Profesión: Sculptor, painter, educator

Estudios: Inst. Design, Illinois Inst. Tech. with Moholy-Nagy, 1942-46 (B.A.).

Exposiciones: Inst. Design, Illinois Inst Tech., 1947 (1st solo, "From Plane to Structure"); AIC;Boston Arts Festival, 1958 (first prize for sculpture); "Art for U.S. Embassies," Inst Contemporary Art, Boston, 1966; Nat. Exhib. Art, Ogunquit, ME, 1967 (McLean Award); Fitchburg(MA) Art Mus., 1968 (solo); State Univ. NY College Oneonta, NY, 1969 (solo); Outdoor Sculpture Exhib., De Cordova Mus., Lincoln, MA, 1972; Joan Peterson Gal., Boston, 1970s

Obra: Addison Gallery Am. Art, Andover, MA; State St. Bank & Trust Co., Boston; Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co.; Chase Manhattan Bank, NYC; First Nat. Bank, Boston. Commissions: sculptural ark, Temple B'rith Kodesh, Rochester, NY, 1962; sculptural cross, Trinity Lutheran, Chelmsford, MA, 1963; sculpture, Atlantic, Sheraton Corp., Prudential Center, Boston, 1964; sculptural cross, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran, Phila., 1965; sculpture, Echo, Revere Copper & Brass Corp., New York, 1965.

Comentarios: Preferred media: bronze, brass, silver, steel, aluminum. Teaching: Inst. Design, Illinois Inst. Tech., 1946-50; Harvard Graduate Sch., 1950-53; assoc. professor, MIT, 1953-60s.

Fuentes: WW73; Katherine Kuh, Abstract & Surrealist American Art (AIC, 1948); Patricia Boyd Wilson, The Home Forum, Christian Science Monitor 1965; Phoebe Cutler, Richard Filipowski's Sculpture, Harvard Art Review 1967. More recently, see American Abstract Art, 182