Three Bowls, Kansas City Sculpture Park

Ursula von Rydingsvard
1990, Cedar and graphite
9 feet 4 inches x 15 feet 10 inches x 8 feet (284.48 x 482.6 x 243.84 cm



According to Deborah Emont Scott and Martin Friedman, Rydinsvard uses domestic images from her childhood (spoons, bowls, boxes, washboards, etc) in a camp for displaced persons during World War II. Typically her works are wooden, sometimes darkened with graphite and/or oil as reminders of her gloomy past. The bowl is often represented because she believes it can have wide range of interpretations (26).
 
 
 


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Work Cited:
Deborah Emont Scott and Martin Friedman. Modern Sculpture at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: An Anniversary Celebration. Kansas City Missouri: Nelson Gallery Foundation, 1999.

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