Three Bowls
- Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park
Three Bowls, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1990-1997, no cat.
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, August 30, 1997-March 1, 1998, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 9, 1998-March 28, 1999, Indianapolis Museum of Art, May 1999-April 2000, no cat.
The roughly hewn, steeply vertical surfaces of Three Bowls bring to mind weathered, rocky cliffs. Ursula von Rydingsvard reinforces this impression by dusting the wood with black graphite, which silvers as it ages.
Von Rydingsvard sculpts intuitively and without drawings or models to guide her process. She creates each sculpture directly from a mental image thaevolveses as she works. The artist stated, "I am drawn to that part of the world where manmade walls erode away in a way where there is no longer a strict line between that which man has made and that which nature has made."
Commissioned from the artist by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1990-1997;
With Galerie Lelong, New York, by 1999;
Purchased from Galerie Lelong by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO in 1999.
"A New Sculpture for the Garden." Star Tribune, June 20, 1990.
Dore Ashton, et al. The Sculpture of Ursula von Rydingsvard (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996): 42, (repro.).
Michale Brenson and Deborah Emont Scott, Ursula von Rydingsvard (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1997): 6, 7, (repro.).
Jan Garden Castro, "Arts" Iowa Architect (October-December 1998).
Kellie Houx, "Sculptor helps resurface piece 'Three Bowls'." The Wednesday Sun (September 20, 2006). Deborah Emont Scott, ed.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008): 235, (repro.).
