Tuesday, January 8, 2008

ADOLPH ROSENBLATT, Milwaukee, WI

"High Tech Lynching", 34"H x 26"W, ceramic bas relief
"I thought Clarence Thomas was a real arrogant person who just liked to play with people, I mean play his own games on other people's backs. And Anita Hill was a beautiful, direct, forthright person whom I could trust and whom I would have liked to know. She didn't seem to be hiding anything. Another thing was the respect she showed her mother from the photographs I saw. I did a sculpture of her and her mother to get more of a sense of what the mother was like. "High Tech Lynching" is one of several sculptures of her."
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Adolph Rosenblatt, born in 1933 in Connecticut, moved his family from New York to Milwaukee in 1966. A professor emeritus since 1999, he taught art at UW-Milwaukee for thirty-three years. Featured in the family gallery located over Artasia, the ceramic sculpture, Lunch Counter at the Oriental Pharmacy is one of his most famous pieces. He has shown widely throughout the country, notably in New York at the Shoelkopf, Tibor de Nagy, Dorsky, and Razor Galleries; in Boston at the Kanegis Gallery; in Los Angeles at the Olympics and in Minneapolis, Provincetown and Chicago. Selected solo exhibitions in Wisconsin include the Haggerty Museum, the Charles Allis Art Museum, Peltz Gallery, Piano Gallery, the UW-Madison Union Gallery, the UW-Oshkosh Priebe Gallery, Anderson Art Museum, and the Bradley Gallery. Nationally, Rosenblatt’s work in private and public collections, include the Library of Congress, Lester Avnet Collection, Vincent Price Collection, Williamstown Museum and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

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