VOA News - National Gallery of Art Showcases Sculptures of Martin Puryear

Jul 31, 2008 at 2:15 AM

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Over a career that has spanned more than three decades, Martin Puryear has gained international acclaim as a sculptor. Now the National Gallery of Art, in his hometown of Washington, D.C., is paying tribute to the artist with a major retrospective. VOA's Susan Logue reports.Puryear's sculptures Mus (foreground) and Old Mole suggest the familiar although they are abstract Hand-crafted from wood, wire, rawhide and tar, many of Martin Puryear's sculptures look like they might be tools, but it isn't quite clear how they would be used. Others are reminiscent of animals, boats or primitive shelters."He has always made objects that look like they should have a name, but we can't name them. They seem like something we know, but not really," says Ruth Fine, National Gallery of Art curator of special projects in modern art.

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