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  Raymond Barger Post-War Polychrome wood Sculpture c. 1955

  RAYMOND BARGER (1906-2001) USA

  Sculpture c. 1955

  Polychrome contoured wood of interlocking circular forms in white, blue and pink on a bronze base.

  Signed: RB (artist initials), USA, Z0I

  H: 8 1/2” x L: 12 ¾” x D: 8

  Price: $5,800

  Raymond Granville Barger was a sculptor working in metal, plastelin, and bronze among other materials. Barger was educated at Carnegie Institute of Technology and Yale University School of Fine Art. He received a Winchester Fellowship from Yale, and a special fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. Barger moved to California, where he died in 2001.

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  Forrest “Frosty” Myers Orange cube 2008

  FORREST (FROSTY) MYERS (1941- ) USA

  Orange cube 2008

  Orange anodized and contoured aluminum wire manipulated into a cube form

  Signed: Orange Cube, 08, Forrest Myers (on plaque)

  For more information see: Who Was Who in American Art (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 2003-2004 25^th Edition), Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18^th Century to the Present, Glen Opitz (Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1984).

  Dimension: 10 1/2″ cube

  Price: $15,000

  A sculptor and art teacher born in Long Beach, California, Forrest Myers settled in Brooklyn, New York. Myers studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. His teaching venues include the San Francisco Art Institute, School of Visual Arts in New York, Kent State University, and the Parsons School of Design. His studio is in Brooklyn.

  In the early 1980s, Forrest Myers was applying Buckminster Fuller's principles of tensegrity and repeated tetrahedrons into his designs for furniture. This exploration culminated in the use of aluminum wire that becomes structural when bent and pressed into a dense tangle.