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December 8 • 2005
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Cranbrook Art Museum mounts
comprehensive exhibit of the works
of acclaimed artist Ruth Duckworth.
I Suzanne Chessler
Special to the Jewish News
he story ofcreation always fas-
cinated sculptor Ruth
Duckworth, so she chose that
subject for a stoneware mural commis-
sioned by an -Indiana synagogue.
Duckworth devised a spiral frame-
work to communicate the continuing
nature of creation, and she divided the
form into seven sections to depict the
week as described in Genesis.
Blue dominates the colors because of
the domination of sky and water in the
environment. Animals loom larger than
people because she sometimes finds
that human beings can be more difficult
to deal with than other forms of life.
Models for the religious piece are on
view at the Cranbrook Art Museum
through Jan. 15. They are part of a tour-
ing exhibit of 80 works titled "Ruth
Duckworth, Modernist Sculptor" and
appear with vessels, figure forms and
abstract pieces both large and small.
" "I cut Hebrew letters into the syna-
gogue piece to convey God as resting on
the seventh day of creation:' explains
Duckworth, 86, who continues to accept
new projects completed with assistants
to do the heavy tasks.
"Before I could work on the lettering,
I had to learn Hebrew and went to a
synagogue in Chicago for help. I also
quote God in English, saying that He
saw what He created was good."
This exhibit is the first comprehen-
sive retrospective of the artist, knoWn
for her contem orar works in da
bronze and stone. Many of the pieces
are from her private collection and
have never been exhibited before this
tour, which started at the Museum of
Arts & Design in New York.City and
will end at the Smithsonian American
Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Giving context to the works are pho-
tographs of Duckworth's large-scale
architectural murals and site-specific
sculptures, a video documenting her
life and a companion display of 21
works by others.
"Ruth Duckworth Selects: Ceramics
from the Collections of Cranbrook Art
Museum and Cranbrook Institute of
Science" showcases pieces from the per-
manent holdings of both cultural cen-
ters and were picked by the artist to
reflect her own interests and influences.
The companion exhibit will be on view
through Dec. 30.
Sculptural Focus
"Each time the exhibit goes to a dif-
ferent place with a different space, it's
almost like a different exhibit;' explains
Duckworth, who visited Cranbrook to
lecture at the opening of the retrospec-
tive spanning 60 years of her life.
* "The evolution of the work partly
depended on the commissions I had to
do. The projects have become more
sculptural. As I've been shrinking, my
projects have been getting larger."
Duckworth, born in Germany,
escaped 'the Nazis when she was 17 by
moving to England with her family. Her
father, Edgar Windmuller, a Jewish
attorney who did not practice his
religion, had been born in Britain
and was able to reinstate his citi-
zenship in the 1930s. •
The artist's early interests were
in drawing, which she began as a
sickly child needing bed rest in
Hamburg. She took private lessons
in Germany and expanded her
skills at the Liverpool School of
Art. Early on, the artist decided
not to title her pieces because she
thought that would limit the imag-
ination of viewers.
After 28 years of living and
Ruth Duckworth in her studio in Chicago, 1987