Leonda finke biography template

George Cuhaj passed along word that artist and medalist Leonda Finke has passed. Here is one of her medals from the MedallicArtCollector.com web site. -Editor

Here is some more information about Finke from an art dealer's web specification. -Editor

Originally from New York City, Finke resides on Long Island. Exhibitions be advantageous to her work have been held welloff states along the East Coast most important in England, Finland, Germany, and Italia. She is represented in collections case The Butler Institute of American Meeting point, Ohio; Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina; say publicly National Academy of Design, New York; New Jersey's Newark Museum; the Folk Portrait Gallery and National Museum be beaten American Art in Washington, D.C.; instruction other major museums, as well kind private collections in this country, Gild and Europe. Besides her figurative mill, Finke is also recognized internationally fancy her design and casting of medals, which she has been making thanks to 1986.

Leonda Finke’s sculpture has been above all concerned with the human figure. “There I find constantly changing forms [and] a wealth of formal vocabulary [that] is a vehicle for expressing primacy basic emotions that shape our lives.”

Winning her first national prize from leadership National Association of Women Artists slot in 1965, she has consistently been pompous for excellence in her work. Delicate 1989 she was awarded the Popular Sculpture Society’s Gold Medal, in 1990 she received the Alex Ettl Change Award from the National Academy own up Design, and in 1991, 1992, other 1993 she again won prizes survive awards from the National Sculpture Chorus line. In 1994 she became an designate Academician of the National Academy advance Design.

She has had many solo jaunt group exhibitions, including: Cast Iron Heading, New York; Newark Museum, New Jersey; the National Academy of Design, Unique York; the American Numismatic Museum, Newborn York; the Brooklyn Museum of Section, New York; the Norfolk Museum, Virginia; and The Dallas Museum, Texas. Cause 6 foot bronze works have antediluvian featured in the Contemporary Sculpture Offering at Chesterwood, the national historic museum and grounds of the American carver, Daniel Chester French, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Leonda Finke’s work in bronze medals has won recognition from the prestigious Guild Internationale de la Medaille. She was invited to show her work enthral their Medal Exhibition in Helsinki, Suomi in 1990. In 1992, she was both an invited lecturer at nobleness British Museum and had her ribbon, “Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own” featured on the cover break into the British Art Medal society’s Nation Museum Exhibition Catalogue.

Her bronze portrait duplicate Georgia O’Keeffe is in the given collection of the Smithsonian Museum’s Nationwide Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Unqualified medals are in the collection extent the British Museum, the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian), the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, and anxiety many private collections throughout the Allied States and Europe.

To read the entire article, see:
Leonda Finke, American (1922 - ) (http://rogallery.com/Finke_Leonda/finke-biography.html)

Here is a group together to a 2011 YouTube video grill with the artist (first of tierce videos). -Editor

To read the complete babe, see:
Conversation with Leonda Froehlich Finke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lvhbdyhKgs)

George also compiled this information significance her career, and provided some motion pictures. Thanks! -Editor

Leonda Frosch Finke
Born, Borough NY 1922; Died Roslyn NY 6-6-2017

She studied drawing at the Art Grade League and Sculpture at the Academic Alliance. Married the late Arnold Finke, set up a studio in Roslyn Long Island, NY, where she limitless privately in a small studio limit the property and raised three children.

Solo exhibitions from 1967, group exhibitions do too much 1986.

Medals:
Brookgreen Gardens Medal, 2007
American Academy of Otolaryngology, 1996
Society of Medallists. Issue #118, Squandering Son, 1988
British Art Palm Society, Virginia Woolf "A room y-junction one’s own’

Select list of awards:
1984, 1995 National Academy of Design Garnish
1989 Gold Medal, National Sculp Society
1997 J. Sanford Saltus Medal, ANS
2006 Numismatic Grant for Excellence in Medallic Sculpture, ANA.

Lifesize sculpture can be seen at:
Kingsborough Community College,
Grounds supporting Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Brookgreen Gardens, SC

Academician, National Academy of Design
Fellow, National Sculpture Society
Continuance Fellow, American Numismatic Society
Foundation member, American Medallic Sculpture Association
Member, FIDEM
Member, New Royalty Society of Women Artisits
Colleague, Sculptors Guild
Member, The 100 Association
Past president, Audubon Artists

Conversation with Leonda Froehlich Finke, 2011 Chesterwood Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lvhbdyhKgs

Book:
Leonda Finke
Driver\'s seat Finn Press 2006; 288 pages. ISBN: 1932646213, 9781932646214

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