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Seward Johnson

Seward Johnson (1930–2020) was an American sculptor whose practice encompassed life-size figures, enlarged cultural images and sculptural environments inspired by painting. His atelier documents the Monumental Scale series and his founding of the Johnson Atelier in 1974 and Grounds For Sculpture in 1992. This historical profile focuses on contemporary sculpture and the experience of encountering it in a public landscape. The Grounds For Sculpture record for The Awakening identifies a cast-aluminum collection version dated 2014, numbered 4/8. Its records also distinguish the 2012 aluminum-and-wood God Bless America from the 2003 styrofoam A Turn of the Century. Those object-specific dates, materials and editions must not be applied to every version of the works. The profile does not imply current services by the deceased artist or availability through Big Art Partners.

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monumental figurative sculpture, public sculpture, sculptural environments
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