Designer: Vincent Glinsky (1895 – 1975)

Item: Sculpture Mother and Child

Manufactured by: Vincent Glinsky

Country of origin:  United States

Year made: Circa 1947 to 1951

Materials: Rosewood or Palisander wood

Dimensions: 10 ½” x 3 ½ x 2 ¼” 

Condition: Excellent

Description: Here is a very rare Vincent Glinsky sculpture in either Rosewood or Palisander wood of an abstracted mother and child.  Glinsky was a prolific artist who did a considerable amount of well-known sculptures in plaster, stone, bronze and terracotta, but very few in wood, and even fewer in rare woods such as Rosewood or Palisander.  This sculpture is stylistically very similar to a much larger sculpture titled The Flame done in maple wood a few years later.  Although his plaster and cast works are easily found, and often for under $100, the very few works he did in rare woods such as Rosewood, have sold for many times his other works.

There is a considerable amount of information available about Glinsky on the Internet and he has a significant biography.  His work has been shown at many major American museums, including the Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery, Albright Knox, Chicago Institute of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, National Academy of Design, Dallas Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum, as well as in many international museum shows.  He was also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and won several important awards including competitions for WPA commissions for artworks for U.S. Post Offices.