Smiling children with subtly rounded bodies are among the best-known types of clay figurines from the Veracruz area of Mexico. Skillfully made of thin-walled clay, the movable limbs are attached to the body by strings, a device which permits the arms and legs to move to different positions. Read More

The title of Tony Smith’s sculpture Lipizzaner is a reference to the white stallions of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria, because the complex surface of the modular forms in the work suggests a prancing horse. Read More

Pablo Casals’s Obelisk, a towering accumulation of welded bronze cellos, dominates the waters of a lagoon in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Standing over twenty feet tall, the Obelisk is an imposing example of monumental sculpture by Arman. Read More

In Leonard Baskin’s bronze sculpture Ruth and Naomi, the biblical women are bound together by shared sadness and mutual support. The work is sited in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Read More

The hallmark characteristic of seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes is a closely observed illusionism wedded to moralistic content. An excellent example is provided by Cornelis de Heem’s Still Life with Fruit on a Ledge. Read More