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Biography of Nancy Stevenson GravesName: Nancy Stevenson GravesBirth Date: December 23, 1940 Death Date: October 21, 1995 Place of Birth: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: sculptor, artist, filmmaker, painter, printmaker, stage designer Nancy Stevenson Graves The American sculptor Nancy Stevenson Graves (1940-1995) established herself with the life-sized, realistic camel constructions she developed between 1965 and 1969. Using a multiplicity of materials and a wide range of sources, she focused her talents on filmmaking, painting, printmaking, stage designing, and watercolor as well as sculpture.Nancy Stevenson Graves was born on December 23, 1940, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where her father worked as assistant to the director of the Berkshire Museum. Her early exposure to this institution where art, history, and science were presented under the same roof profoundly influenced her later work. She attended Vassar College, majoring in English literature and studying painting and drawing (B.A. 1961), but it was not until she entered the Yale School of Art and Architecture that the intense, competitive world of a fine arts education became available to her. She earned B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees at Yale.After graduation in 1964 she received …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…works have also been included in numerous groups shows.Graves died in New York on October 21, 1995, a victim of cancer. At the time of her death, she was married to Avery L. Smith. Further Reading The most comprehensive book on the sculpture of Nancy Graves is The Sculpture of Nancy Graves: A Catalogue Raisonné, edited by the Fort Worth Art Museum (1987) in conjunction with their exhibition of her work. Two additional exhibition catalogues of interest are Nancy Graves: A Survey 1969/1980 by Linda Cathcart (1980) and Nancy Graves: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, 1980-85 by Debra Bricker Balken (1986). Information related to Graves' work in the years immediately preceding her death was drawn from news articles in The Boston Globe and The New York Times.Two articles of particular significance are Avis Berman, "Nancy Graves' New Age in Bronze," Artnews (February 1986) and Lucy Lippard, "Distancing: The Films of Nancy Graves," Art in America (November/December 1975). |