Graves, Nancy (1940–95). Sculptor, painter, printmaker, and filmmaker
In 1968 she created a stir with furry, life-size sculpted camels that seemed at the time perilously close to the limits of art. Spurred by long-standing interests in natural history and archeology, through the 1970s she drew on such sources as animal anatomy, paleontology, prehistoric artifacts, and scientific documents while working in several media. Later she combined constructivist methods with allusive, even surrealistic imagery taken from natural and man-made sources to create colorful, idiosyncratic sculptures.... ...
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