Grace Knowlton, Sculptor Who Worked 'in the Round,' Dies at 88

Grace Knowlton, Sculptor Who Worked ‘in the Round,’ Dies at 88
A rare female modernist who broke into the masculine culture of outdoor sculpting, she exhibited her spheres at top museums and galleries.
The sculptor Grace Knowlton in 1971 with two of her glazed ceramic spheres. She once said that her “love affair with the sphere” began because she “loved the sphere’s continuous surface to draw on — no edges, no top and no bottom.”Credit...via the Knowlton family
Published Dec. 19, 2020Updated Dec. 21, 2020
Grace Knowlton, a sculptor who favored the elegance of the sphere, and who presented it in multiple materials and distended shapes and in sizes that ranged from the ornamental ball to an eight-foot boulder, died on Dec. 4 at a memory care facility in Old Tappan, N.J. She was 88.

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