TODTENTANZ
Cypress wood
5 feet high
Winner, 1965 California Art Club Juried Exhibition
“I spotted a superb wood carving.. a macabre dance rhythm carried through to the last gouge mark. You can bet your last buck it won’t win a prize. It doesn’t fit any modern category. It’s JUST ART.”
-Arthur Millier, longtime art critic for the Los Angeles Times
Carved from one solid log found at the roadside, a haunting abstract rendering of two skeletal figures engaged in a “dance of death”. The piece reflects on the Holocaust and its enduring human toll.
FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO (Crucifixion)
English walnut
9 feet high
CONVERSATIONS
Osage orange, zebrawood, ebony, and vermillion
22 3/4 inches high
THE BURNING BUSH
Redwood burl
40 inches high
Commission for Temple Isiah, Palm Springs, California
MARTYR
1 solid log of redwood burl
5 feet high
STANDING WOMAN (front and side views)
Lignum vitae (wood)
4 feet 10 1/2 inches high
CONFRONTATIONS
Zebrawood, ebony, vermillion, and English walnut
22 inches high
YE OFFSPRING OF VIPERS (John the Baptist)
Redwood burl and root section
27 inches high
CONFRONTATION ASIAN
Gonzalo Alves wood (Brazil)
35 inches high
ELEGY
Desert ironwood
34 inches long, 30 inches high