Frederick Hart
Tabletop Bronzes
Frederick Hart
Cast Marble
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Frederick Hart
Tabletop Acrylics
Lifesize Bronzes
Lifesize Cathedral
Lifesize Acrylics
Frederick Hart
Gallery One Writer's Square
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Denver Colorado Art Gallery
Frederick Hart is recognized worldwide as the most prominent figurative sculptor of the last century.
Beginning his life in Atlanta, and his career in Washington, D.C., Hart was the epitome of the starving artist. He saw that he was spiritually descended by famed figurative masters such as August St. Gaudens and Daniel Chester French, but he failed to realize the fame these artists enjoyed. He toted around Dupont Circle, sculpting girlfriends, kids and buddies but not truly finding his calling. He became despondent with the lack of skill on the "modern" art scene, and more the notion that we had forgotten what it meant for something to be beautiful, timeless and everlasting.
He then discovered the Washington National Cathedral, the seventh largest cathedral in the world, and the only place he could truly surround himself with the Italian master stone carvers who would make him the master. he carried tools, fetched coffee and finally ingratiated himself into the cadre of stone carvers, whose impermeable ranks were so hard to breach. the headmaster himself, Roger Morigi, a temperamental Italian, with a penchant for the "tough-love" way of teaching, took him as an apprentice.
