SCULPTING BOSTON

By popular demand, we are having a CLOSING RECEPTION. If you missed our fabulous November opening, you have another chance to visit ... Saturday, April 9th, 2011 from 2-5 pm. Free and open to the public (but RSVP - marjee@nesculpture.com), this event is a chance to see the exhibition, meet the artists, and will include tours of the foundry, guiding people through the lost-wax process and how these sculptures were/are made.

Exhibiting the Public and Private Work of Nancy Schön and Lloyd Lillie The Gallery at New England Sculpture Service is proud to announce their current exhibition, Sculpting Boston, a retrospective look at two of the area's most preeminent public sculptors. Responsible for "Make Way for Ducklings" in the Public Garden and "Mayor James M. Curley" near City Hall downtown, Nancy Schön and Lloyd Lillie respectively have created much of the signature and historic Public Art in the Boston area.

Aptly titled Sculpting Boston this exhibition features images of the most iconic local Public Sculptures, along with the studies, maquettes, busts, etc. that accompany them. Both Nancy Schön and Lloyd Lillie have spent their careers producing large-scale, public works which have become a familiar and beloved part of the city's landscape. Additionally, they both have an outstanding repertoire of smaller sculptures on display, representing and reinforcing their individual styles.

Nancy Schön is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, and in 2008 was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Mount Ida College for her work in public sculpture. She is best known for her recreation of the duck family in Robert McCloskey's children's classic Make Way for Ducklings in the Public Garden, Boston, MA. In 1991, Barbara Bush gave a duplicate of this sculpture to Raisa Gorbachev as part of the START Treaty; the piece is displayed in Moscow's Novodevichy Park. Some of Schön's other notable pieces include the Tortoise and Hare in Copley Square, Eeyore and Winnie the Pooh at the Newton Library, Lentil and His Dog Harmony, Hamilton, OH, The Scholarly, Whimsical, Gentle, Lucky and Loving Dragon, Dorchester, MA, and the Nursing Sundial at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Lloyd Lillie, also a graduate of the Museum School, studied further at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. He was a Professor of Art at Boston University for over 30 years and now holds the status of Professor Emeritus. Lillie's long list of commissions include The Chess Players, John Marshal Park, Washington D.C., Thomas Jefferson, St. Louis, MO, and the First Women's Rights Convention (20 life-size figures), Seneca Falls, NY. Greater Boston has been especially good to him, and he feels fortunate to have done so many of the area's public commissions including John Adams and Abigail and John Quincy Adams in Quincy, MA, and Red Auerbach, Bust of Frederick Douglass, and Portrait of Lucy Stone, all at Faneuil Hall/Quincy Market in Boston.

Sculpting Boston is currently on display in the Gallery at New England Sculpture Service through th, Boston's full-service art foundry. Since opening in 1991, NESS has established itself as the only commercial art foundry in Massachusetts, serving most New England sculptors and many from all over the United States.

NEW ENGLAND SCULPTURE SERVICE 214 Arlington Street Chelsea, MA 02150 (617) 884-9292.

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NOTE: There is some parking available, but please consider public transportation (the Chelsea stop on the Commuter Rail is less than a block from the building). If you would like more information about this event, the foundry, or to schedule an interview with Nancy Schön and/or Lloyd Lillie, please call Marjee Levine at (617) 884-9292 or email marjee@nesculpture.com