Artwork Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Wilfrid Zogbaum (1915-1965) |
Title |
Patia's Gift |
Date |
ca.1960 |
Medium |
Welded metal and stone |
Dimensions |
H: 27", W: 22", D: 10" |
Description |
Best known today as a sculptor, Wilfrid Zogbaum (known as Zog) was born in Newport, RI. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale and began his career as a modernist painter. He spent 1937 traveling and studying in Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship. In the 1940s, after serving as an Army Signal Corps photographer in World War II, he became a successful commercial photographer in New York City, but in 1948 he began to devote himself full time to his art. That year he visited Pollock and Krasner in Springs and decided to buy property nearby, later selling portions of it to fellow artists Willem de Kooning and John Ferren. In the early 1950s he began making sculpture. Many of his constructions feature scrap metal and found machine parts, often combined with beach stones--dubbed Zogstones by his friends--in welded structures. This example was a gift to Patia Rosenberg (1943-2017), the daughter of the art critic Harold Rosenberg and his wife, the writer May Natalie Tabak. The piece was later returned to Zogbaum's son, Rufus, who donated it to the Pollock-Krasner House. Gift of Rufus Zogbaum. |
Catalog Number |
2023.1 |
Object Name |
Sculpture |
Current Exhibition |
Crosscurrents: Selections from the Permanent Collection |