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Click on images to see larger picture and info Nathaniel Kaz, who began his career as a nine-years-old prodigy in Samuel Cashwan's studio in Detroit now has his sculptures in major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Whitney Museum in New York City. At seventeen, after several years at the Art Students League he was already a professional sculptor. What followed were one man shows at Downtown Gallery, 1939; Associated American Artists, 1946; and Grand Central Moderns, 1954. In 1955 he won first prize for a sculpture for the United Nations Building in New York in a contest initiated by the national Council for US Art, Inc. and exhibited, after preliminary screening, at the Whitney Museum. In 1957 he executed a memorial light, four-paneled Ark doors, a seven-foot, seven-branched Menorah of wrought bronze and a seven-foot cast bronze The Offering for the lobby of Temple Beth Emeth, Albany, NY. In 1959 he received a grant from the National Institute of Arts and letters. In 1976 he received the Award of Merit for his sculpture The Prophet exhibited at the national Academy of Design. In 1981 he won the silver medal for creative sculpture at the 39th Annual Audubon Artists and in 1983, the Medal of Honor, in 1988, the Margaret Hirsch Levine Memorial Award. Also in 1988 he was awarded the Agopoff Award in the 163rd Annual Exhibition. Nathaniel Kaz has been a League instructor since 1946, and a working sculptor since 1928. Many hundreds of students have studied with him, and of these many are now well-known and well-established professionally. Awards: Michigan Sculpture Prize, 1929; Section of Fine Arts Award, 1940; Artists for Victory award, 1942; Audubon Artists 6th Annual, 1947; Sculpture prize, Brooklyn museum, 1948 and 1952; Alfred G.B. Steel Memorial Prize, 148th Annual exhibition at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1953. Exhibited: Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Art institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy, University of Nebraska, Philadelphia Museum and others. In Collections of: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, Joseph Brummer, Audrey G. MacMahon and others.
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