Lain Hart Gallery
Sculpture by Frederick Hart
Visionary works celebrating the beauty of fine art
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About the Artist
Frederick Hart
1943 - 1999
Guided by an earnest passion to “explore the domains of existence, and capture the deep resonances of our commonality,” sculptor Frederick Hart created hundreds of public monuments, memorials, portraits, and other works of art in stone and bronze.
“Hart’s figures embody hope, reassuring us about the future of art and humankind.”
1967
Seeking work as an apprentice stone carver at Washington National Cathedral, Hart initiates the program of training that will serve as the foundation for his development as a sculptor.
1974
Hart commissioned to sculpt the Creation Sculptures at Washington National Cathedral, the largest commission of religious art in the United States in the twentieth century.
1984
Hart’s first major work in bronze, the “Three Soldiers” statue, dedicated as part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Dreams, Memories, and Visions:
Driven by a desire to innovate, Hart was determined to discover a new medium for sculpture. He sculpted, for the first time, a series of embedded figures in cast acrylic, and it was in this new medium that he would go on to develop his signature style: A style of sculpture in which embedded forms appear and disappear.
A rhythm of movement shapes a mystery, an enigma arising out of a “very delicate sense of image,” an interplay between solidity and ephemerality “suggestive of dreams, memories, and visions.”
“Hart’s sculptures succeed both as layered metaphors and as celebrations of sensuous, mortal beauty.”
“Frederick Hart knew how to make stone and bronze speak. ”
