1. Lenore Emery was an American visual artist based in New Orleans.
12 Facts About Lin Emery
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Lin Emery is primarily known for her large-scale wind-powered kinetic sculpture and public artworks that are inspired by the forces of nature.
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Lin Emery's father was Hungarian and died when she was three years old.
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Lin Emery received private lessons in drawing, French, Latin and German.
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Lin Emery's studies moved overseas to Paris between 1947 and 1950 at Cours de la Civilisation Francaise at the Sorbonne.
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Lin Emery attended evening figure drawing sessions at la Grande Chaumiere in the Montparnasse arts district.
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Lin Emery returned to Paris in 1949 and studied sculpture in the studio of Ossip Zadkine.
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Lin Emery then learned welding and casting, and exhibited with Herbert Ferver, David Hare, Seymour Lipton and David Smith.
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Lin Emery was commissioned to portray life sized religious figures for many churches in Louisiana and the South.
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Between 1955 and 1970, Lin Emery's work entered into wide national circulation.
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Lin Emery exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well as venues in Hong Kong and Manila.
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Lin Emery organized the 1976 International Sculpture Conference in New Orleans, which included lectures by Isamu Noguchi, Yaacov Agam, Hilton Kramer, Beverly Pepper, Irving Sandler, Seymour Lipton and George Sugarman.