Here are some interesting links

Sculpture Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships, Education and Supplies - Atelier.org
Apprenticeships

Organizations

American Foundrymen's Association
AFS Cast Metals Institute

Sculpture Supplies

Unimarble - marble bases
Bases and Supplies
Supplies

Publications

American Arts Quarterly
Newington-Cropsey Foundation
Cultural Studies Center
P.O. Box 1654 Cooper Station
New York, NY 10211-2851

(212) 260-0176

Longer, insightful articles concerning the human form in art, from ancient to contemporary and modern art.  Articles contain historical information and some philosophical commentary punctuated with excellent high quality reproductions of art work.

 

ART Ideas
American Renaissance for the twenty-first Century
FDR Station, P.O. Box 8379
New York, NY 10150

(212) 759-7765

Contemporary figurative artists with high quality reproductions.

 

Galleries

Sommerville Manning Galleries
Breck's Mill, 2ND fLOOR
101 sTONE bLOCK rOW
gREENVILLE, dELAWARE 19807
pHONE: (302) 652-0271

 

vISUAL eXPANSION gALLERY
126 nORTH hIGH sTREET
wEST cHESTER, pa 19380
PHONE: (610) 436-8697

 

Museums
Sculptors

Professional Foundry clients and fellow members of the National Sculpture Society.

Jay Hall Carpenter
Charles Parks

National Sculpture Society
iNTERESTING wEB sITES

Sculpture Review  Web site for magazine published by National Sculpture Society has interesting articles and photographs of (mostly) representational sculpture.

ART Ideas  Web site of ART Ideas magazine/American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century figurative artists and their philosophy on art.

Brookgreen

Books

The Painted Word.
Tom Wolfe.  A brief factual history of the rise of "modern art" in the early 20th Century and the corresponding decline of figurative art.

FROM BAUHAUS TO OUR HOUSE.  Tom Wolf.  A brief factual history of the rise of modern architecture in the mid-twentieth century.  The influence of German architecture and the loss of human scale in our modern glass and steel buildings.

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN.  James Joyce.  An insightful look into the personal life of a young artist facing the dilemmas of life's conflicts.