biografía de Tom HARDY (1921)

Lugar de nacimiento: Redmond, OR

Direcciones: Portland, OR

Profesión: Sculptor

Estudios: Oregon State Univ., 1938-40; Univ. Oregon (B.A., 1942) with Archipenko, summer, 1951 (M.F.A., 1952).

Exposiciones: Third Biennial, S„o Paulo, Brazil, 1955; Am. Watercolors, Drawings & Prints, MMA, 1956; PAFA, 1958, 1962, 1966; MoMA Sculpture Exhib., 1963; WMAA Sculpture Ann., 1964; Exhib. C and Grants, Am. Inst. Arts & Letters, 1968; Kraushaar Gals., NYC, 1970s. Awards: award For Color Lithography, SAGA, 1952; Seattle AM Northwest Ann. Sculpture Award, 1955; Distinguished Service Award, Univ. Oregon, 1964.

Asociaciones: Portland AM; Contemporary Crafts Assn.; Friends MA, Univ. Oregon; Am. Hist. Train Assn.; Maude Kerns AC

Obra: WMAA; SAM; Springfield (MO) Art Mus.; Mus. Art, Ogunquit, ME; Portland (OR) Art Mus. Commissions: sculptures, Oregon Flora (screens), Portland State Univ., 1962, Diving Birds, Fed. Bldg., Juneau, AK, 1964, Duck Fountain, Univ. Oregon, Eugene, 1964, Flight Dorothy Chandler Music Center, Los Angeles, 1965 & wall sculpture, State Dept. Agric., Salem, OR, 1968.

Comentarios: Preferred medium: bronze. Positions: member, bd. dir., Contemporary Crafts Gal., Portland, 1960-71. Teaching: lecturer, Univ. Calif., Berkeley, 1956-58; instr., Calif. School FA, San Fran., 1956-58; assoc. prof. sculpture, Tulane Univ., 1958-59; artist-in-residence, Reed College, 1960-61.

Fuentes: WW73; H. Wurdemann, Recent Art of the West Coast," Art Am. (Feb., 1955); "Metal Sculptures by Tom Hardy," Am. Artist (April, 1955); L. Jones, "Tom Hardy: Sculptor-Craftsman," Creative Crafts (July, 1962); Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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