John Kearney

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John Kearney (1924-) is a Chicago- and Provincetown-based American artist famous for making figurative sculptures, often of animals, using multiple, found metal objects, specifically bumpers from automobiles.

Kearney received his artistic education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy. In 1950, he co-founded the Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago. Subsequently, he has lived and worked in Italy many times, most notably in Rome 1963-64 while on a Fullbright Award and again in 1985 and 19992 while serving as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome.

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[edit] Awards

  • Fulbright Award to Rome in 1963-64
  • Italian Government Grant in 1963-64
  • Visiting Artists at America Academy in Rome, 1985 and 1992

[edit] Colletions that Own Kearney's Work

  • Aeon (Standard Oil Building) in Chicago
  • Detroit Children's Museum
  • Illinois State Capitol Visitors Center, Springfield, IL
  • Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  • Ulrich Museum, Wichita, Kansas

[edit] Solo Exhibitions

  • New York City at A.C.A. Gallery, 1964 to 1979
  • Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1992 to 1997

[edit] Outdoor Sculpture

[edit] In Chicago Area

  • Academy of Science (T. rex)
  • Aeon (formerly the Amoco Building and the Standard Oil Building) (three deer)
  • Chicago Park District (two life size Horses)
  • Clark and Deming intersection (two goats)
  • Elaine Place (two giraffes)
  • Field Museum, South Entrance (two bronzes)
  • Francis Parker School
  • Goudy School (double life-size puma)
  • Lincoln Park Zoo (chromium plated bull elephant elephant)
  • McCormick Seminary, Hyde Park, on University Avenue north of 55th Street (a ram named Herald [sic] or Harold) [1]
  • Michigan Avenue (moose)
  • Museum of Science and Industry (life-size gorilla)
  • Oakton Community College
  • Oz Park (the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz)
  • Sedgwick, 1800 block (two horses)
  • Uptown Hull House (gorilla)

[edit] Elsewhere

  • Dallas Museum of Natural History (Chromosaurs: a t-rex, stegosaurus, and triceratops)
  • Boys and Girls Club of Fayetteville, Arkansas (life-size giraffe and gorilla)
  • Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Kansas (Grandfather's Horse)

[edit] Trivia

Known as a "aids profitee"

[edit] External links

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