- Alonzo Clemons
Alonzo Clemons is an American animal sculptor and a savant. He lives in
Boulder, Colorado .Clemons suffered a severe brain injury as a child that left him developmentally disabled (with an
IQ in the 40-50 range), but able to create very accurate animal sculptures out of clay. Clemons can create a sculpture of almost any animal, even if he has seen only a glimpse of it. [cite book | last = Barry | first = Ann Marie Seward | title = Visual Intelligence: Perception, Image, and Manipulation in Visual Communication | publisher =State University of New York Press | date = 1997 | pages = 85 | url = http://www.google.com/books?id=ICoNOpxTxvYC | isbn = 0-7914-3436-2] He is also able to create a realistic and anatomically accurate three-dimensional rendering of an animal after only looking at a two-dimensional image for mere moments. [cite book | last = Olson | first = Steve | title = Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition | publisher =Houghton Mifflin | date = 2004 | location = Back Bay | pages = 111 | url = http://www.google.com/books?id=4nXt5GXmSwwC | isbn = 0-618-25141-3] He is most well known for his life-size renderings of a horse, but most of his works are smaller, and accomplished in less than an hour. [cite book | last = McGaugh | first = James L. | title = Memory and Emotion: The Making of Lasting Memories | publisher =Columbia University Press | date = 2003 | location = New York City | pages = 133 | url = http://www.google.com/books?id=SXC2MlYt1scC | isbn = 0-231-12022-2]In 1986 he had a premiere exhibit in
Aspen, Colorado . His works have sold for as much as $45,000. [cite book | last = Wallechinsky | first = David | coauthors = Wallace, Amy | title = The New Book of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information | publisher =Canongate Books | date = 2005 | location = Edinburgh | pages = 594 | url = http://www.google.com/books?id=tdY_N5gpOy4C | isbn = 1-84195-719-4]References
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* [http://artsales.com/ARTists/Alonzo_Clemons/Prodigious_Savant_Syndrome.htm Clemons' official site]
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