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 Martin Puryear (born May 23, 1941) is an African American sculptor. He was born in Washington, D.C., and he spent his youth studying practical crafts, learning how to build guitars and furniture. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone from 1964...




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Martin Puryear
10/01/2002: 520 words, approx. 2 pages MCKEE GALLERY For his latest exhibition Martin Puryear made four extraordinary sculptures. Sometimes painted black and sometimes tarred, these wooden vessels all had subliminal power, seeming like props from a mystery play while making uncanny allusions to the sacred and the profane. ...
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 The Boston Globe
The Time Of Martin Puryear
03/25/1990: 2,145 words, approx. 7 pages Before he was even old enough to attend school, Martin Puryear happened to see a travel book with photographs of a yurt, that efficient form of portable housing used by Mongol and Afghan nomads who have to pick up and move on when their...
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 The New York Observer
SoHo Museum Flees Yuppies, as the Met Goes For Baroque
9/18/2007: 663 words, approx. 2 pages A few years back, Robert Hughes, former art critic for Time magazine and Goya biographer, wrote that sculptor Martin Puryear (b. 1941) was America’s greatest living artist, and damned if Mr. Hughes wasn’t close to the mark. New Yorkers will get an opportunity to make...
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 The New York Observer
With Earthy Style and Droll Wit, Kohn\'d5s Sculptures Steal the Show
10/16/2005: 831 words, approx. 3 pages Gabriel Kohn occupies a quizzical, almost willfully marginal patch of artistic terrain. The artist died three decades ago, but I’d never heard his name prior to coming across four of his pieces in An Intuitive View, a somewhat perfunctory array of sculpture culled from the...


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