Artist

Alexander Archipenko

born Kiev, Russia (now Kyiv, Ukraine) 1887-died New York City 1964

Media - portrait_image_113200.jpg - 89882 — Courtesy Alexander Archipenko papers, 1904-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Also known as: Aleksandr Porfirevic Archipenko
Born: Kiev, Russia
Died: New York, New York, United States
Active in: Woodstock, New York, United States

Biography: Alexander Archipenko was a sculptor who was born in the Ukraine. After working in Paris, Archipenko moved to the U.S. and became a citizen in 1928. An important influence on sculpture in this country and abroad, Archipenko experimented with simplified forms, spaces enclosed within the sculpture, concave shapes as counterpoints to convex and concave planes, and polychromy. He taught at several universities and had his own sculpture schools in Chicago and New York.
National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996)
: Luce Artist Biography
Alexander Archipenko grew up in Kiev, Russia, where he studied painting and sculpture at the Kiev Art School. In 1908 he moved to Paris and exhibited with a group of avant-garde artists that included Marcel Duchamp and Fernand Léger. Archipenko created some of the earliest multimedia sculptures, working with glass, wire, and wood, and was one of the first modern artists to add color to sculpted form. In 1923, Archipenko moved to the United States, where he opened art schools in New York City and Woodstock and taught in universities across the country.

Works by this artist (2 items)

William Rudolf O'Donovan, Thomas Le Clear, 1876, plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum acquisition, XX20

Thomas Le Clear

Artist

William Rudolf O'Donovan

Date1876

plaster

William Rudolf O'Donovan, Joseph Wheeler, 1895, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Henry Clews and Committee of Subscribers, 1921.1.2

Artist

William Rudolf O'Donovan

Date1895

bronze