Pair American Abstract Gilt Bronze Small Swans Sculptures by Jack Zejac

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Pair Beautiful 20th Century American Abstract Gilt Bronze Small Swans Sculptures by Jack Zejac.
Subject in the model abstract form … Read more Pair Beautiful 20th Century American Abstract Gilt Bronze Small Swans Sculptures by Jack Zejac.
Subject in the model abstract form of swans.
Visual beauty such fine craftsmanship.
A feature that stands out are the vibrant rich gilt gold colour of the swans breathtaking
Circa late 20th century 1970's.
Only one of them is signed and numbered 18/95 the other is unsigned but is by the same sculptor.
Made from gilt bronze set on a black acrylic plinth.
Origin from America USA.
Very finely modelled and beautifully cast.
They are each quite heavy weighing 6kg and the other just over 5kg.
His works have sold at auctions around the world up to $20,000 US Dollars.
Jack Zajac (born December 13, 1929) is a Californian West Coast artist who has been concerned with the “Romantic Surrealist tradition”.
”To have a message or an emotional stimulation soaked up by an uncertainty of the Artist’s tool — color — shape — form — which are the punctuation of his message, is a discouraging thing. This is the kind of anemia I’m trying to eliminate.”
Jack Zajac is an American artist who was born December 13, 1929 in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1946, his family moved to southern California. After he graduated from high school, he got a job at Kaiser Steel Mill. This employment helped finance his study of art at Scripps College in Claremont, California from 1949 to 1953.
Though Zajac studied art with Millard Sheets at Scripps College, and was a member of the art community that developed in Claremont, California during the mid-20th century, he was admitted as a special, non-degree seeking student. The reason that he was not admitted as a regular student was because Scripps College was then, and remains today, a women's college. Jack Zajac is married to artist, Corda Eby. They have two children, Aaron Zajac and Christian Zajac and three grandchildren, Camille Zajac, Phoebe Zajac and Jack Zajac. His son, Christian Zajac and granddaughter, Camille Zajac are both artists.
In 1948, Zajac won a scholarship at a California State Fair student exhibition in Sacramento. He was named recipient of the Purchase Prize at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1950, which led to his first one-man exhibit. He is known for his sculptures in bronze and marble, as well as his figurative paintings. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design. He has been an Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, Dartmouth College and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
His sculpture works are in Honolulu Museum of Art. Cowell College at UC Santa Cruz, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), The J Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), Palm Springs Art Museum, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Wildling Museum (Solvang, CA) and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) are among the public collections holding works by Jack Zajac.
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Dimensions in centimetres of each approximate

High (22 cm)
Depth front to back (26 cm)
Width (13 cm)


High (25.5 cm)
Depth front to back (26 cm)
Width (13 cm) See less