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sculptor

[skuhlp-ter] / ˈskʌlp tər /
NOUN
sculpture maker
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His collection was a nod to the American sculptor Lynda Benglis and featured accordion-like dresses, skirts and accessories.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

On Wednesday, the team unveiled a memorial dedicated to “Jota and Silva at its Anfield Stadium. The monument, designed by sculptor Emma Rodgers, is named “Forever 20,” in honor of Jota’s Liverpool jersey number.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2026

Architects Billie Tsien and Tod Williams brushed off criticism, saying that Obama himself was inspired by the chunky works of the modernist Romanian sculptor.

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

It was created by Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill, who has modeled a number of eclectic Americans over the years.

From Slate Jun. 2, 2026

In compensation, the sculptor has treated the limited free space atmospherically, yet the figures remain imprisoned in stone.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

How many other sculptors have made regular use of dynamite?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

For the rest of his life—in contrast to his contemporaries the Color Field painters and industrial-scale sculptors, who required vast studios—he worked in the modest apartment where he kept his own company.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 25, 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

“It’s how painters paint and people make music and sculptors make sculptures,” he says of his style.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 7, 2025

The stone cutters and sculptors carved the stone gutters and down spouts that were to be installed in the buttresses.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

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 Gore, J. Ellard




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