• The Modern Art Foundry is an historic foundry in Astoria, Queens, New York, founded in 1932 by John Spring. His descendants continue to operate the business...
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    Maman (sculpture) (category Spiders in art)
    Maman at Tate Modern is not always on display. Bourgeois chose the Modern Art Foundry to cast the sculpture because of its reputation and work. The sculpture...
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    Wonderland in person. The sculpture was originally cast at the Long Island Modern Art Foundry in the Steinway Mansion. The sculpture is unique because visitors...
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    Standing Woman (category Sculptures in the Museum of Modern Art (New York City))
    Tuileries Garden. All but the cast owned by the Museum of Modern Art were made at the Modern Art Foundry, Queens, New York. Lachaise envisioned Standing Woman...
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    Steinway Village. Limited tours of the factory are available. The Modern Art Foundry, a foundry, is located in Astoria. In addition to Bohemian Hall, the Astoria...
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    Chinese art Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in China, Greater China or by Chinese artists. Art created by Chinese residing...
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  • tons, sunk in bedrock to a depth of 23 to 25 feet., It was cast at Modern Art Foundry, Astoria Queens, NY. The sculptor, Robert Berks, known for his portrait...
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    philanthropist George Delacorte in honor of his wife, and forged in the Modern Art Foundry in Queens, New York. It is favored by children who enjoy climbing...
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    in Queens National Register of Historic Places listings in Queens Modern Art Foundry "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic...
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    eternal flame of God's Holy Spirit." The sculpture was founded by Modern Art Foundry in New York. In 1959, the 50th anniversary year of Scouting, Lyndon...
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    Nasser Azam (category British modern sculptors)
    palette. In 2010 Azam purchased the Morris Singer Art Foundry and relaunched it as the Zahra Modern Art Foundry. Many of Azam's works during the period 2008...
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    Auswandererdenkmal in Bremerhaven in 1985. The statues were cast at Modern Art Foundry in New York City. Bremerhaven is an appropriate site for the statue...
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    Equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson (Washington, D.C.) (category Vandalized works of art in Washington, D.C.)
    Jacksonville, Florida in 1987, near Jacksonville Landing. It was cast by the Modern Art Foundry of Long Island City, New York. The original statue stands at the center...
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    (Wiebking, 1930) Bodoni Modern + italic (R. Hunter Middleton, 1936), probably the most faithful recutting. Damon Type Foundry offered a Bodoni under the...
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    a work of art, Benjamin establishes that artistic reproduction is not a modern human activity, such as the industrial arts of the foundry and the stamp...
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    Statue of George Washington (Indianapolis) (category Indiana Statehouse Public Art Collection)
    Northeast corner of sculpture, east side, lower rear: The Modern Art Foundry, Inc. (Foundry mark) 1986 New York, New York Front/south side of base: GEORGE...
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  • type foundry based in Berkeley, California, that was founded in 1985 by husband-and-wife team Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko. The type foundry grew...
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    Central Park's version of the sculpture is signed "J. SUÑOL"; it bears the foundry mark of Federico Masriera, Barcelona, 1892. Arcidi, Philip (December 1993)...
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    Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (category Sculptures in the National Gallery of Art)
    cast. The casting took place at the Hébrard foundry in Paris from 1920 until 1936 when the Hébrard foundry went bankrupt and closed. Thereafter, "Hébrard"...
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  • cast at UAP's Polich Tallix foundry. Tow Row, a bronze fishing net sculpture in front of the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art by Judy Watson. Gilded Cage...
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    (ATF) Co. was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85 percent of all type manufactured in the United...
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    Soho Foundry is a factory created in 1775 by Matthew Boulton and James Watt and their sons Matthew Robinson Boulton and James Watt Jr. at Smethwick, West...
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    buildings, constructed to accommodate workers at the nearby West Point Foundry (itself a Registered Historic Place today). The town is the birthplace...
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  • establishment ..." ("Cincinnati Type Foundry," Ohio State Journal And Columbus Gazette; Date: 07-06-1826") Cornell, Alice M. (2001). Art as Image: Prints and Promotion...
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  • dedicated in honor of immigrant mothers on October 1, 1960 by the Modern Art Foundry. The Bowman and The Spearman [1], SIRIS. Buck, Diane M. and Virginia...
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    Henry W. Maxwell Memorial (category Vandalized works of art in New York City)
    Historical Park in Cornish, New Hampshire. The new plaque was cast at the Modern Art Foundry, with a rededication of the memorial held on June 25, 1996. The bronze...
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  • commissions 1844 to 1900 Archived 2011-08-09 at the Wayback Machine, Zahra Modern Art Foundries George Gammon Adams, brief biography and list of works at the National...
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  • Belgium, where they lived until 2017. In 2018, Luo opened the Luo Lirong Foundry in Bologna, Italy. 2016 Bonheur simple, 5.9 x 7.5 x 5.5 inch, bronze sculpture...
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    was installed in 1956. It was cast in bronze at Long Island City's Modern Art Foundry. The statue was designed to accompany an outdoor center for story-telling...
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    Solomon R. Guggenheim (category 19th-century art collectors)
    collecting art in the 1890s, and he retired from his business after World War I to pursue art collecting. He eventually focused on modern art under the...
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