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sculptor

[skuhlp-ter] / ˈskʌlp tər /
NOUN
sculpture maker
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Mr. Stallone gave the bronze, by the sculptor A. Thomas Schomberg, to the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The sculptor and his workmen look like miniature figures as they work on the 14-meter monument in honor of the pope, who is a Peruvian citizen.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

After the death of her lover, Romanian sculptor George Apostu, whose rough-hewn wood sculptures still populate the house’s patio, Caland’s children encouraged yet another departure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Pittsburgh sculptor Brian McGuire custom designed the mold and is also working on a replica of the 1926 Central Library building.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

When Leonardo da Vinci arrives at the court of Milan, he isn’t introduced as a painter, or a sculptor, or an engineer, or even a mathematician.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

How many other sculptors have made regular use of dynamite?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Most sculptors did not carve their own marble copies, but Stebbins insisted on doing so herself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Laura Gardin Fraser, the only woman among the monument sculptors here, designed a powerful double-equestrian sculpture of Lee and Jackson for Baltimore, unveiled in 1948.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

Gill was among the most prominent sculptors of the 20th Century.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2025

Here in the shop only great sarcophagi were built, and blocks of stone roughhewn to size, ready for the sculptors.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

They actually orbit each other, and as R Sculptoris dances in a circle, the wind that blows off from it forms a spiral pattern like a garden sprinkler shooting out water.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2012

About 7° south-east of α is the red and variable star R Sculptoris; variable from 6·2 to 8·8 magnitude, with a period of about 376 days.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore




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