December 23, 2020
Jack Lenor Larsen
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. December 22, 2020 Weaver, designer, collector, gardener, author, world traveler, entrepreneur, teacher, and cultural scholar, Jack Lenor Larsen was mentor to textile connoisseurs, designers, artisans and artists throughout his eventful and gratifying 93 years. He died peacefully on the evening of December 22, 2020, of natural causes in East Hampton, N.Y., at LongHouse Reserve, the 16-acre garden and arts center that is his legacy. Larsen’s, companion of more than 30 years, Peter Olsen, was at his side.
A memorial service will be announced in the near future.
For those who wish to honor Larsen, he would appreciate nothing more than a contribution to the Jack Lenor Larsen Endowment Fund, established to support the maintenance of and programming at his beloved LongHouse Reserve.
Grace Knowlton, Sculptor Who Worked âin the Round,â 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.