Artist

Philip Pavia

born Bridgeport CT 1911-died New York City 2005

Also known as: Phillip Pavia
Phillip G. Pavia
Born: Connecticut, United States
Died: New York, New York, United States
Active in: New York, New York, United States

Biography: Born in Connecticut, studied in Europe, settled in New York. Sculptor who went back to carving stone, after experimenting with bronze, because of his interest in "bouncing light."
Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)
: Luce Artist Biography
Philip Pavia, son of a master stonecutter, grew up in New York and attended the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design and the Art Students League. Pavia made large-scale abstract carvings and assemblages, and carved eighteen tons of marble in less than four years. He loved controversy and arguments with other artists, and was a founding member of The Club, an influential group of abstract expressionist artists who met weekly to discuss art. In the 1960s, although he was “proud to be an Abstract Expressionist,” he experimented with more representational art, including portrait heads of famous figures in pop culture.

Works by this artist (2 items)

Philip Pavia, Amazon on Horseback, 1965, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, Martha Jackson Memorial Collection, 1980.137.86

Amazon on Horseback

Artist

Date1965

marble

Philip Pavia, Portrait Head of Martha Jackson, 1971, cast bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, Martha Jackson Memorial Collection, 1980.137.85

Portrait Head of Martha Jackson

Artist

Date1971

cast bronze