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Daniel Altshuler
American
American, b. 1965
Throughout his pre-college training, Daniel Altshuler, a Massachusetts native, studied drawing, painting, and woodcarving of lettered signs. He continued his education with special instructors in painting, still life, and life drawing classes at the Art Institute of Boston and Boston University. He graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1988.
After meeting sculptor Walker Hancock (1901-1998), who was prolific in monumental figurative sculpture, portraiture, numismatic work, and bas-relief, Altshuler worked as his sole assistant for thirteen years. Altshuler's sculptural training with Hancock ranged from small works to monumental-sized works. Altshuler modeled works with Hancock, developing modeled statuary with him, finishing the work in clay to plaster, then to bronze and marble. While working with Hancock, Altshuler maintained his own adjoining studio where he produced his own professional commissions. The immediacy of Hancock's presence and his emphasis on bas-relif with the figure, portraiture and lettering in the Classical tradition, developed Altshuler's skills and knowledge to become the professional sculptor he is today.
Altshuler has curated two major sculpture exhibitions: The Rockport Art Association’s, Sculptors of Cape Ann, From Medals to Monuments in 1997; and with Mayor Bruce Tobey of Gloucester during Gloucester's 375th Anniversary, American Sculptural Heritage, Anchored in Gloucester in 1998 - 1999, for which he designed Gloucester's 375th Anniversary medal. This exhibition focused on traditionalist monumental, animalier and figurative sculptors of the late 19th and 20th century.
He was appointed to the Citizen Coinage Advisory Committee by then U.S. Department of the Treasury, Secretary John S. Snow, between 2003 - 2005, which allowed him to influence American Coinage Designs.
Altshuler’s clients include Dartmouth College, Massachusetts General Hospital, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Lahey Clinic in Boston, and his works are featured at The White House, the United States Mint, the Carter Center Presidential Museum and Library, the Texas A&M Museum, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Brookgreen Gardens, the Helen Keller Foundation, Perkins School for The Blind Museum, the Thoreau Institute Museum and Library, the Orchard House Museum, the Cape Ann Historical Museum and The Royal Mint, UK, and in Japan and Vietnam.
Altshuler continues working within the strong tradition of Neoclassical influence in his public and private works. When Altshuler works in sculpture, whether it is a portrait of allegorical statuary, it is essential to him that he captures the spirit and likeness of the subject.
His 8-foot portrait statue of Donald Chisholm was installed in the new building of Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and in 2012, his busts of Francis Crick and James D. Watson were installed in the permanent collection of the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sources:
https://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Daniel_Althsuler/117339/Daniel_Altshuler.aspx
https://altshulersculpture.blogspot.com/
https://www.figurativesculptors.com/altshuler.htm
https://www.artsy.net/artist/daniel-altshuler/works-for-sale
American
American, b. 1965
Throughout his pre-college training, Daniel Altshuler, a Massachusetts native, studied drawing, painting, and woodcarving of lettered signs. He continued his education with special instructors in painting, still life, and life drawing classes at the Art Institute of Boston and Boston University. He graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1988.
After meeting sculptor Walker Hancock (1901-1998), who was prolific in monumental figurative sculpture, portraiture, numismatic work, and bas-relief, Altshuler worked as his sole assistant for thirteen years. Altshuler's sculptural training with Hancock ranged from small works to monumental-sized works. Altshuler modeled works with Hancock, developing modeled statuary with him, finishing the work in clay to plaster, then to bronze and marble. While working with Hancock, Altshuler maintained his own adjoining studio where he produced his own professional commissions. The immediacy of Hancock's presence and his emphasis on bas-relif with the figure, portraiture and lettering in the Classical tradition, developed Altshuler's skills and knowledge to become the professional sculptor he is today.
Altshuler has curated two major sculpture exhibitions: The Rockport Art Association’s, Sculptors of Cape Ann, From Medals to Monuments in 1997; and with Mayor Bruce Tobey of Gloucester during Gloucester's 375th Anniversary, American Sculptural Heritage, Anchored in Gloucester in 1998 - 1999, for which he designed Gloucester's 375th Anniversary medal. This exhibition focused on traditionalist monumental, animalier and figurative sculptors of the late 19th and 20th century.
He was appointed to the Citizen Coinage Advisory Committee by then U.S. Department of the Treasury, Secretary John S. Snow, between 2003 - 2005, which allowed him to influence American Coinage Designs.
Altshuler’s clients include Dartmouth College, Massachusetts General Hospital, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Lahey Clinic in Boston, and his works are featured at The White House, the United States Mint, the Carter Center Presidential Museum and Library, the Texas A&M Museum, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Brookgreen Gardens, the Helen Keller Foundation, Perkins School for The Blind Museum, the Thoreau Institute Museum and Library, the Orchard House Museum, the Cape Ann Historical Museum and The Royal Mint, UK, and in Japan and Vietnam.
Altshuler continues working within the strong tradition of Neoclassical influence in his public and private works. When Altshuler works in sculpture, whether it is a portrait of allegorical statuary, it is essential to him that he captures the spirit and likeness of the subject.
His 8-foot portrait statue of Donald Chisholm was installed in the new building of Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and in 2012, his busts of Francis Crick and James D. Watson were installed in the permanent collection of the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sources:
https://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Daniel_Althsuler/117339/Daniel_Altshuler.aspx
https://altshulersculpture.blogspot.com/
https://www.figurativesculptors.com/altshuler.htm
https://www.artsy.net/artist/daniel-altshuler/works-for-sale
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