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Artist Wikipedia Page Draft: Barbara Chase-Riboud

NOTE: There is an established Wikipedia entry for Barbara Chase-Riboud.

I am focusing on her artwork, not literary work.

To add context while reading here, I added some information from the original article verbatim - these sections are italicized. The existing article is full of additional information not included below.

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Barbara Chase-Riboud (born June 26, 1939) is an American visual artist, bestselling novelist and award-winning poet.

Chase-Riboud's modern abstract sculptures often combine the durable and rigid metals of bronze and aluminum with softer elements made from silk or other textile material. Using the lost wax method, Chase-Riboud carves, bends, folds, and manipulates large sheets of wax prior to casting molds of the handmade designs, then pouring the metal to produce the metal-work, which melts the original wax sculpture. The finished metal is then combined with threads, which are manipulated into knots and cords, and often serve as the base for the metal portion of her sculptures, including those in the Malcolm X Steles.

At age 15, Barbara Chase sold a woodcut to the Museum of Modern Art. Seventeen magazine published the woodcut print accompanying the article "Reba". She created her first direct wax-casting sculptures while at the American Academy in Rome on a John Hay Whitney fellowship in 1957, and received her MFA from Yale University School of Design and Architecture in 1960.

Continuing to work as a sculptor throughout her life, Chase-Riboud creates drawings and sculptures that are exhibited and collected by museums such as the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Newark Museum, New Jersey, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. During September, 2013 to January 2014, she exhibited artwork spanning fifty years at The Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibition: Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles.

Chase-Riboud gained recognition as an author after the release of her book, Sally Hemings (1979), which earned the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in Fiction, and became an international success while generating conversation around the book's topic of the relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. She continued to write novels including Echo of Lions (1989) and Hottentot Venus: A Novel (2003).

Chase-Riboud also writes and publishes poetry, including her first work Memphis & Peking (1974), edited by Toni Morrison, and her more recent publication: Everytime a Knot is Undone, a God is Released (2014).

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Early life and education

She was the art director for the New York Times International in 1960

Visual arts career

last paragraph: add Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Newark Museum, New Jersey, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran (exhibited, not collected), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Selected works:

Bathers (1969)

Time Womb

Add other selected works as noted on the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

Additions I am still looking into:

Add a bulleted list of select institutions who have collected work by Chase-Riboud

Add a bulleted list of selected exhibitions (MoMA 2017...)

Add a link to the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, who represents Barbara Chase-Riboud and provides additional information about the artist

Bibliography:

Basualdo, C., Chase-Riboud, B., DuBois Shaw, G., Handler Spitz, E., Vick, J., Basualdo, C. (Ed.) (2013). Barbara Chase-Riboud : the Malcolm X steles. New Haven, CT :Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press,

(Kohler Art Library: NB237 C46 A4 2013)

Braxton, J. M. (2006). The spiritual, the sexual and the sublime: Approaches to Barbara Chase-Riboud's Tantra Series. International Review of African American Art, 21(3), 16-19.

Mercer, V. J. (1997). Chiaroscuro: black artists in the City of Light, 1945-1965. American Visions, 1212-16.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. Barbara Chase-Riboud http://www.michaelrosenfeldart.com/artists/barbara-chase-riboud

Naves, M. (1996). Paris as haven: “Explorations in the city of light”. New Criterion, 1443-44.

Petras, A. (2017). A new worldview. Modern Painters, 29(2), 19.

Pollock, L. (2014). Editor's Letter. Art In America, 102(3), 16.

Selz, Peter, 1919-. (1999). Barbara Chase-Riboud, sculptor. New York :Harry N. Abrams.

(Kohler Art Library: NB237.C46 S46 1999)

Stein, J. E. (2014). Facing history. Art In America, 102(3), 122-127.