TitleFlavia
Artist
Lorrie Goulet
(American, 1925 - 2021)
Date1982
MediumGreen serpentine stone
DimensionsOverall: 17 × 16 × 6 in.
Other (Sculpture): 11 × 16 × 4 1/2 in.
Other (Base): 6 × 6 × 6 in.
SignedSigned on back: "GOULET / 1982 / ©".
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, May 2, 1990
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1990.9
Label TextLorrie Goulet studied with Amiee Voorhees at the Inwood Potteries Studios, New York, as a child. Shortly after her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she continued her regular schooling and supplementary work with local artists. Her first experience in carving stone came in 1939; in 1940 she became an apprentice to Jean Rose, a ceramicist. In the autumn of 1943 Goulet entered Black Mountain College, North Carolina, where she studied painting and drawing with Joseph Albers. The next summer she was in the class in wood carving given by visiting instructor, Jose de Creeft, and in November 1944, Goulet and de Creeft were married. Goulet's work is characterized by figures, predominately of women, the form of which have an organic relationship to the stone or wood from which the sculptor has released them. She has, however, also worked in other sculptural media, and in monumental scale, in a series facade decorations commissioned by the City of New York for several of its public buildings in the Bronx Branch of the New York Public Library at 173rd Street and Grand Concourse (1958); Nurses School and Residence, Bronx Municipal Hospital (1961); and the 48th Precinct Police and Fire Station Headquarters (1971). The artist wrote, "My work is in a figurative style with a somewhat abstracted construction of shapes that blend flesh with geometry that I feel is the underlying structure of the human figure."
1830-1850
