Kenneth Snelson
"Self-Portrait"
Pendleton, Oregon
1948
The faculty and student
roster from Black Mountain College
always amazes me.
Kenneth Snelson is one of the most
amazing of the student alumni
in my opinion.
You might even say that the student was really
the teacher as the
equally amazing Buckminster Fuller
would find out when he saw Kenneth's
early sculptures.
Some would even say the Master
used this encounter with Snelson's
work to alter the course of his own work,
without even a nod to his student.
But I'll leave that debate to the
scholars,
I just like to look at the pretty pictures......
Kenneth Snelson
"Early X-Piece"
1948
Kenneth Snelson
"Moving Column, 1st Study"
1948
Kenneth Snelson
"Moving Column, 2nd Study"
1948
Kenneth Snelson
"Bat Wing Piece"
1948
Kenneth Snelson
"X-Column"
1959
Kenneth Snelson
"Ball Chain Helix"
1959
Kenneth Snelson
"Harry's Hen"
1960
Kenneth Snelson in his studio on Spring Street
with "Arcuate Lip Superstar".
New York City
1960
Kenneth Snelson
"Fair Leda"
(Early study)
1960
Kenneth Snelson
"X-Planar Tower"
1962-88
Kenneth Snelson
"Spring Street"
1964
Kenneth Snelson
"Sag Harbor II"
1965
Kenneth Snelson
"Double City Boots"
Miami
1968
Kenneth Snelson with
"Newport" model.
The Springs, Long Island
1967
Kenneth Snelson making adjustments to
"Needle Tower II"
Netherlands
1971
Kenneth Snelson
"Eight Rubber Wheels"
1948
Kenneth Snelson
"Atom Study With Seven Nested Circlespheres"
1960
Kenneth Snelson
"Circlespheres With Four Centuring Axes"
1974
Kenneth Snelson
"Magnet Cyclopropane"
1976
Kenneth Snelson
"Magnet Fourteen Matrix BCC"
1962
Kenneth Snelson
"Study for Atomic Space 3"
1963
Kenneth Snelson
"Homage to the Uncertainty Principle;
A Device to Aid in Locating
Electrons in an Atom
If There Were a
Means to Look For Them."
1964
Kenneth Snelson
"Study for Atomic Space 1"
1964
Kenneth Snelson
"Study for Big Atom"
1965
Kenneth Snelson
"Three-Shell Magnet Piece"
1976
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Amazing Mr. Snelson
Wow, I've never heard of him before, somehow. Those are incredible! Genius is correct.
ReplyDeleteA- I bet you have seen his large scale work before. I just tried to show the more obscure early models/maquettes. I will do another post soon of the large scale works.... P
ReplyDeletethis is really great, thanks so much for sharing.
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Early x-piece -gasp. Thanks for this great post
ReplyDeleteuniform: no, really, thank you, checkin' out your tumbler, and soooo into it! u seem 2 b coordinating your amazing curated images not only according to topic, but by color.... jealous! KUTGW!, Best-MB
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