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Augusta Stylianou Gallery 
Edward Marshall Boehm (xx/xx/1913 – January 29, 1969) was a self-taught American sculptor known for his porcelain figures of birds and other wildlife.[1] Boehm explained his choice of porcelain as the medium for his art as follows: "Porcelain is a permanent creation. If properly processed and fired, its colors will never change; and it can be subjected to extreme temperatures without damage. It is a medium in which one can portray the everlasting beauty of form and color of wildlife and nature."[2]
Edward Marshall Boehm[3]was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1913. His surname is pronounced "Beam". His parents separated before he was born. His mother, Elsie Boehm, died when he was seven years old. (He was not to meet his father until he was in his twenties.) Friends enrolled him in an orphanage known as the McDonogh School, where he remained until he was 16 years old. He studied animal husbandry (farm management) at the University of Maryland. After the war he apprenticed for six months at the studio of the sculptor Herbert Haseltine. He studied draftsmanship three times a week. He taught himself the ancient process of porcelain making. From 1934-42 he managed Longacres Farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, specializing in Guernsey cattle. During World War II Boehm was in charge of a rehabilitation program for the Air Force at Pawling, New York. In 1944 he married Helen Franzolin. They later moved to Trenton, New Jersey. The union was happy but childless. They remained together until Edward Marshall Boehm died 1969. His widow died in 2010, aged 89. Death Edward Marshall Boehm died from a heart attack on January 29, 1969, aged 55 or 56.[4] Posthumous Boehm was accorded its highest honor in 1992 when a wing of the Vatican Museums in Rome was named in his memory. This was the first time in its 500-year history that one of the thirteen museums in the Vatican was named for an American, as the twelve other museums are named for popes and royal families.[5] Tributes ”The image and likeness of God's world is seen at once in the work of Edward Marshall Boehm. It is not an elusive and esoteric expression like so much of contemporary art. Clarity is its first quality. Its grandeur is in its perfection. It is a disciplined art, mastering the demands of the ancient and distinguished craft of porcelain making”[6] Frank J. Cosentino, president of Edward Marshall Boehm, Inc., explained the importance of Boehm's hard-paste porcelain sculpture: "Prior to Edward Marshall Boehm's venture in 1950s, few, if any, American firms had ever made hard-paste porcelain sculpture that successfully compared with the fine centuries-old production of Europe and Asia."[7] Selected Collections Today Boehm porcelain is in the permanent collections of one hundred thirty-four institutions globally including: * White House, Washington, D.C.
* Frank J. Cosentino, Boehm's birds; The Porcelain Art of Edward Marshall Boehm (New York, F. Fell, 1960); OCLC: 1356021
1. ^ Frank J. Cosentino, Edward Marshall Boehm, 1913-1969, (Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1970); OCLC: 101799; p. 43 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/ ", Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ==--==--==
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