- John E. Buck
John Buck is an American sculptor and printmaker who was born in Ames, Iowa in 1946. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from
Kansas City Art Institute in 1968, and in 1971, he studied atSkowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. In 1972, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from theUniversity of California, Davis , where he met his wife, artistDeborah Butterfield . Buck and Butterfield divide their time between a ranch in Bozeman, Montana and studios on the island of Hawaii.Buck is best known for his woodblock prints and bronze sculptures that are typically cast from molds taken from wooden maquettes.
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu , theDeCordova Museum (Lincoln, Massachusetts), theFine Arts Museums of San Francisco , theSmithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.) and theYellowstone Art Museum (Montana) are among the public collections holding works by John Buck.References
* Albright, Thomas, "Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980", Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1985
* DuPont, Diana C., "San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection", New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1985.External links
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/buck_john.html ArtCyclopedia]
* [http://www.sharksink.com/artists.asp?artists=4 Shark's Ink]
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