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Richard Peter Stankiewicz

Richard Peter Stankiewicz (1922 - 1983) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Richard Stankiewicz is known for Whimsical junk assemblages sculpture, industrial elements.

Richard Stankiewicz Dies, Pioneer of 'Junk' Sculpture, by Michae Brenson, Obituary, The New York Times, March 29, 1983

Richard Stankiewicz, the American sculptor whose whimsical scrap-iron constructions made him one of the pioneers of ''junk art'' and assemblage, died of cancer Sunday in Worthington, Mass. He was 60 years old.
Mr. Stankiewicz established his reputation by taking pipes, nuts, bolts, screws, clockworks and other scrap from junkyards and welding them into carefully ordered sculptural compositions that both respected the fragmentary, arbitrary character of the materials and transformed them.

''I take material that is already degenerating, flaking and rusting, and then try to make something beautiful of it,'' Mr. Stankiewicz said in 1958. ''It should hit people over the head and make them ask, 'What is beauty?' ''

Mr. Stankiewicz's sculptures have a special kind of humanity and wit. Particularly during the 1950's, when his work had some of the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5276 characters.]  Artist bio

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