Chilean sculptor
Marta Colvin Andrade
Born 1907 (1907 ) [ 1] [ 2] Chillán, Chile
Died 27 October 1995(1995-10-27) (aged 87–88)[ 1] [ 2] Santiago, Chile
Known for Sculpture
Marta Colvin Andrade (1907–1995) was asculptor fromChillán, Chile .
Marta Colvin Andrade was the daughter of James Colvin of Irish descent and Elvira Andrade of Portuguese descent. After the1939 Chillán earthquake , she lived in Santiago, Chile, and studied at theSchool of Arts . In 1943 she was appointed assistant professor from the sculpture workshop of Julio A. Vasquez and masterLorenzo Domínguez and was officially appointed Professor in 1950. In 1948 she attended the Grande Chaumiere Academie in Paris with masters Ossian Zadkine and Henry Laurens. She went on to live in France for more than thirty years. In 1965 she took part in the firstSao Paulo Biennale .[ 3]
She died in Santiago on 27 October 1995.[ 4]
Sculpture in museum collections [ edit ] Homenaje a la Neurocirugía , sculpture by Marta Colvin. Instituto de Neurocirugía, Providencia, Santiago, ChileHimno al Trabajo Colvin, Marta - Madre Tierra Silvia , 1946, bronze, 80 x 43 x 50 cm,Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art Danza para tu sombra , 1952, granit, 3,5 x 3 x 2,8 m, tomb of the dancer Isabel Glatzel, General Santiago Cemetery[ 5] Buste de Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna , 1952,Square de l'Amérique-Latine , Paris[ 6] Homenaje a la Neurocirugía , 1953, bronze, 3 m tall, Instituto de Neurocirugía, Santiago[ 7] Eslabón , 1956, sycamore wood, 64cm de hauteur,Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes ,Santiago [ 5] Quinchamalí , 1956, wood, 1.27 x 0.55 x 0.5 m; Parque de las Esculturas Marta Colvin de ChillánManutara , 1957, bronze, 1,6 m, Battersea Park,London [ 5] Terra Mater , 1957, bois, 2 m; Pinacoteca de la Universidad deConcepción Andes , 1959, bronze, 0,50 m,Palais du Quirinal ,Rome Yo sostengo tu cruz , 1960, bois, 2,3 m; Benedictine Monastery of the Santísima Trinidad de Las Condes, SantiagoSigno solar / Grand Signe , 1963, Andes stone, 2,4 x 2 x 2,2 m,Musée de la sculpture en plein air , ParisMonumento a Laurita Lagos , 1964, Chillán stone, 3 m, Cimetiere de ChillánLas torres del silencio , 1960-1963, stone, 3,5 x 1,25 x 0,5 m,Musée de sculpture en plein air de Middelheim Vigías , 1968, polished wood, 2 m tall; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago[ 5] Le Grand Signe , 1970, bronze, 2,4 x 2 x 2,2 m, Musée de la sculpture en plein air, ParisMural de Osaka , 1970, stone and copper,Museum of Osaka Puerta del Sol , 1970, red Andes stone, Museum ofPontoise Señal del bosque / Signal en forêt , 1971, wood, 4,5 x 4 x 2 m, Forest ofSénart El árbol de la vida , 1971, stone, Centro CulturalGabriela Mistral , SantiagoCarrefour de l'esprit , 1972, wood, 4,5 x 4 x 2 m, College ofVillepinte Caleuche (Nef) , 1975, Andes stone, 3.5 x 2 x 2 m, port ofSaint-Nazaire Victoire , 1978, stone, 4 x 3 x 2 m, Régiment Bouliac,Bordeaux Léviathan , 1977, wood, 4.5 x 3 x 3 m, Lycée Professionnel "Professeur Clerc" inOutreau (Pas-de-Calais)Mélusine , 1978, stone, 2,5 m, Collège de la Crèche,Niort Rosa de los vientos , 1979, stone, 3,60 x 3 x 3 m, Faculté d'Ontologie de l'Université de ParisHomenaje a los templarios , 1981, stone, 4 x 3,5 x 3 m, Ville Nouvelle deSaint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Espíritu del agua , 1982, bronze, 3 x 2 x 1,5 m, Plaza del General de Gaulle,Marly-le-Roi Vigía del mar , 1983, granite, 6,5 x 3 x 2 m, Fort Crozon,Brest, France Horizonte andino , 1986, stone, 0,21 x 0,46 x 0,16 m, Museo de Artes Visuales, SantiagoMadre Tierra / Pachamama , 1986, red Andes stone, 4.18 x 1.26 x 1.04 m, Museo Parque de las Esculturas de SantiagoHimno al trabajo , 1989, polychromed wood, Cámara Chilena de la Construcción, Santiago[ 5] Señal de oriente y occidente / Signal , 1991, polychromed wood, 3.5 m, Sculpture park ofSéoul Alas al viento , stone, sculpture park, University ofTalca Monumento aSucre , Plaza Sucre, Ñuñoa, Santiago^a b Artes (Chile), Museo Nacional de Bellas; Zárate, Patricio Muñoz; Ivelić, Milan (2009).Centenario: colección Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1910-2010 ISBN 978-956-8890-00-1 ^a b Historia ^ Viñuales, Rodrigo Gutiérrez (9 January 2016).Arte latinoamericano del siglo XX. Otras historias de la Historia ISBN 978-84-15770-83-1 ^ "Marta Colvin is Dead" .New York Daily News . Retrieved9 March 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^a b c d e "Marta Colvin - Artistas Visuales Chilenos, AVCh, MNBA" .www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl .^ "Busto de Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna realizado por Marta Colvin" .Museo Nacional Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna (in Spanish).^ "Revista Chilena de Neurocirugía" (PDF) ,neurocirugiachile.org , La Sociedad de Neurocirugía de Chile, 2016,ISSN 0716-4491
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