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Kenneth D Snelson

Kenneth D. Snelson (1927 - 2016) was active/lived in New York, Oregon.  Kenneth Snelson is known for Geometric form sculpture, assemblage, graphics.

"Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89"
By William Grimes, December 23, 2016, The New York Times, Art & Design Section

Kenneth Snelson, a sculptor who stitched together aluminum tubes with flexible stainless-steel wires to create seemingly lighter-than-air towers, arcs and cantilevers, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.

The cause was prostate cancer, his wife, Katherine, said.

Mr. Snelson was a painting student at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the late 1940s when he became enchanted by the lectures on geometric forms delivered by a last-minute substitute teacher, Buckminster Fuller, the futurist inventor and father of the geodesic dome.

In an experiment, Early X Piece (1948), Mr. Snelson took two X’s made from propeller-shaped pieces of plywood and suspended one over the other using a matrix of nylon tension lines.

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