Beloosesky Gallery is interested in purchasing sculpture by Saul Baizerman.
Please call (917) 749-4577 or email us at info@beloosesky.com
A sculptor born in Vitebsk, Russia, Saul Baizerman created small, simplified human forms from chunky, squared off materials. His style was primarily realistic, and he chose urban themes including a series called "City and the People," hammered sculptures based on observations of contemporary life. Later he focused on the heroic nude figure.
He had one year of formal art training in Russia and coming to New York in 1910, he studied at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design, and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. After 1920, he developed his signature technique of hammering metal sheets into shapes.
He traveled widely in Europe during the 1920s and had a one-man show at the Dorien Leigh Galleries in London in 1924. In 1933, he had his first exhibition in the United States, held at the Eighth Street Gallery in New York. A major studio fire in 1931 destroyed most of his early small bronzes.
From 1934 to 1940, he taught sculpture, drawing, and anatomy at his Baizerman Art School. In 1949, the Whitney Museum made their first purchase of his work, and in 1953, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis organized a major traveling retrospective of his work. He died of cancer in 1957.
Biography from the Archives of Askart
Museums
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Sand Diego Museum of Art
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Center, Kansas, Missouri