Alan Sonfist
American, born 1946
Moved back to New York and progessed into sculpture.
Influenced by Asher Durand and his "Letters on Landscape Painting" he created a series of works entitled "Dreams with Asher B. Durand" which involved finding the scenes that Durand had painted and then photographing as they are now. Another creation was "Element Selections--Frozen in Time" which had him placing twigs and leaves from a given site in the forest and then placing them onto a canvas in the same configuration. This was then returned to nature where he allowed natural decomposition to occur.
In 1975 he created a work called "Gene Banks" which dealt the idea of the forest as a time capsule. One of his most ambitious projects was "Time Landscape : Greenwich Village, New York" which attempts to reproduce the forest that covered Manhattan three hundred years ago.
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French, 1824 - 1898
French, 1864 - 1901
