DeWitt Godfrey

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Untitled welded steel sculpture by DeWitt Godfrey, 1989, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

"Tucker's Genus Two Group", sculpture by DeWitt Godfrey and Duane Martinez installed at the Technical Museum of Slovenia, showing the symmetries of the Möbius–Kantor graph

DeWitt Godfrey (born 1960) is an American modernist sculptor who was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He earned a BA in art from Yale University in 1982 and an MFA in sculpture Edinburgh College of Art in on a Fulbright scholarship in 1996. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Colgate University

Godfrey is best known for his large abstract constructions of weathering steel.

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• Atiya, Alexandra N., Godfrey Takes Art to the Streets: Pamplona Sculpture Only the Beginning, Harvard Crimson, February 9, 2006.
• Heuer, Megan, The Incredible Lightness of Steel, ARTnews, July 2005.
• Kimmelman, Michael, Profiles Both Abstract and Real, New York Times, May 20, 1988.
• Rubin, David S., Selections from the Edward Albee Collection: Farrell Brickhouse, Stephen Buckley, DeWitt Godfrey, David Hacker, Stanislav Kolibal, Chris Martin, Max Miller, Maud Morgan, Vladimír Novák, Jeff Price, Frank Schroder, Kishio Suga, Jonathan Thomas, Vladimir Urban, Tad Wiley, Reading, Pa., Albright College, 1988.