Adaline Dutton Kent or Adaline Kent Howard, was an American sculptor from California.
19 Facts About Adaline Kent
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Adaline Kent created abstract sculptures with forms inspired by the natural landscape.
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Adaline Kent began her education at Vassar College before returning to the Bay Area to study at the California School of Fine Arts.
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Adaline Kent studied in Paris with Antoine Bourdelle at the Grande Chaumiere.
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Adaline Kent married Robert Boardman Howard on August 5,1930, after they worked together on the Pacific Stock Exchange building, a Miller and Pflueger architecture firm project.
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Adaline Kent loved the fact that sculpting the human body offered anyone to have their own personal interpretation to the craft.
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Adaline Kent felt comfortable with taking ideas from the human form because our bodies are familiar and easy to shape into various artistic position.
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Adaline Kent loved to hike and explore various trails in the Sierra Mountains.
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Adaline Kent found a lot of influence from the rock formations in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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Adaline Kent ventured outside of the human form and into more three-dimensional curved form that left her art to interpretation.
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Adaline Kent found influence in mountain formations, she explored the way gravity works with a few sketches.
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Adaline Kent made sculptures from various material such as seashells, driftwood, and crystals.
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Adaline Kent took influence from primitive resources that originated in other cultures.
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Adaline Kent admired certain artworks from witchcraft and spiritual customs.
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Adaline Kent was able to identify how shapes can carry certain meanings.
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Adaline Kent's sculptures remain an important part of surrealist and modern art because of her eye of interpreting the world and its forms.
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Adaline Kent's group represented three young people from the South Pacific.
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On March 24,1957, Adaline Kent died in an accident while driving on the Pacific Coast Highway in Marin County.
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Adaline Kent was an alumna and a former board member of the San Francisco Art Institute, and left it $10,000 to establish an annual award for promising artists from California.