Hawthorne Tree II
Isaac Witkin
1990
MATERIAL: metal: bronze
DIMENSIONS: overall: 112 in x 88 in x 59 in
EDITION: Unique
CREDIT: Grounds For Sculpture, Gift of The Seward Johnson Atelier
© Estate of Isaac Witkin, photo: Ken Ek
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Isaac Witkin is principally known for his soft-edged, organic bronze pieces, such as 'HawthorneTree II’, generated from Witkin’s improvised explorations of experimental foundry techniques in which molten bronze is directly poured onto a bed of sand. He would later weld the cooled bronze shapes together to complete the sculpture: “Rather than beginning with a drawing, my ideas are always conceived three-dimensionally. My language is generated from the free flow of metal drawn in molten states onto beds of sand.”
