Harriet Feigenbaum

Harriet Feigenbaum (born 1939) is an American Ecofeminist artist and sculptor. Many of her works are publicly displayed or in collections in New York. Her later work focused on reclamation projects, often of old mining cites, in Pennsylvania.[1][2] Robert Stackhouse's work has been compared to Feigenbaum's.[3]

List of important works, in chronological order
  • (1976) Tantric,[4] Cornell University.
  • (1977) Cycles II--Land Structures Built Where the Petroglyphs Are Made by Children,[5] Artpark, Lewiston, New York.
  • (1978) Widow's Walk and Dog Run,[6] Harriman Park Palisades, New York.
  • (1978) Battery Park City-A Mirage,[7] Creative Time, Inc., New York, New York.
  • (1978) Parking Lot Pentagon off Washington Avenue,[8] New York City, New York.
  • (1978) An Octagonal Domed Building.[9]
  • (1983) Dickson City Land Waves: Valley of 8000 Pines.[10][11]
  • (1984) Dickson City Land Waves: Black Walnut Forest[12] (incomplete[13])
  • (1988) Greenwood Colliery Sundial[14]
  • (1989) Distant Landscape,[15] Colgate University Picker Art Gallery, Hamilton, New York.
  • (1990) Memorial to Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust,[16][17] New York City, New York.

Legacy and impact

Feigenbaum was the subject of Phyllis Koestenbaum's poem, "Harriet Feigenbaum Is a Sculptor", published in Poetry New York, which was included in the 1993 volume of The Best American Poetry series,[18] and later reprinted in her collection Doris Day and Kitschy Melodies.[19]

Personal life

Feigenbaum married Neil W. Chamberlain in 1968.[20] In 1988 Feigenbaum, who is Jewish, designed a memorial of the Auschwitz concentration camp for the Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State.[21]

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References
  1. "Harriet Feigenbaum". InLiquid. 1986-09-13. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  2. Wilson, Stephen (2002). Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. MIT Press. pp. 133. ISBN 9780262731584. harriet feigenbaum.
  3. Hatton, E. M.; Hatton, Hap (1979-10-16). The tent book. Houghton Mifflin. p. 146. ISBN 9780395276136.
  4. "Tantric, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  5. "Cycles II--Land Structures Built Where the Petroglyphs Are Made by Children (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  6. "Widow's Walk and Dog Run, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  7. "Battery Park City-A Mirage, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  8. "Parking Lot Pentagon off Washington Avenue, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  9. Hatton, E. M.; Hatton, Hap (1979-10-16). The tent book. Houghton Mifflin. p. 140. ISBN 9780395276136.
  10. "Dickson City Land Waves: Valley of 8000 Pines, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  11. Sites and Solutions: Recent Public Art : October 12-November 18, 1984, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, January 9-February 2, 1985, Gallery 400, College of Architecture, Art, and Urban Planning, the University of Illinois at Chicago. Freedman Gallery, Albright College. 1985. p. 16. ISBN 9780941972024.
  12. "Dickson City Land Waves: Black Walnut Forest, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  13. Conlogue, Bill; Conlogue, William (2017-09-29). Undermined in Coal Country: On the Measures in a Working Land. JHU Press. p. 30. ISBN 9781421423180.
  14. "Greenwood Colliery Sundial, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  15. "Distant Landscape, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  16. "Design Awards: Tenth Annual Awards for Excellence in Design". Public Design Commission of the City of New York. October 22, 1991. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015.
  17. "Monument to the Injustice of the Holocaust, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  18. "The Best American Poetry 1993, Guest Edited by Louise Glück". bestamericanpoetry.com. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  19. Koestenbaum, Phyllis (September 2001). Doris Day and kitschy melodies: prose poems. La Questa Press. ISBN 9780964434844.
  20. "People Search". Marquis Who's Who. Retrieved January 21, 2015. After search, entry found and purchased is for "Neil Cornelius Wolverton Chamberlain (Deceased) / economist, emeritus educator; Born: 1915"
  21. By Cecilia Cummings July 27, 1988 "A Memorial To Holocaust Is Approved" The New York Times
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