Marta Colvin

José Joaquín Cortes · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Name
- Marta Colvin
- Birth Name
- Marta Colvin Andrade
- Born
- 1907
- Birthplace
- Chillán, Chile
- Died
- 27 October 1995
- Place of death
- Santiago, Chile
- Education
- University of Chile
- Occupation
- Sculptor Marta Colvin Andrade (1907–1995) was a Chilean sculptor.
- Nationality
- Chile
- Fields
- art of sculpture
- Honours
- National Prize of Art of Chile · Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral
- Languages
- Spanish
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Marta Colvin (1907–1995) was an artist, draftsperson and painter, among other activities, of Chilean nationality. The artist was born in Chillán and died in Santiago. Activity centred on art of sculpture.
Languages used include Spanish. Works are held at Middelheim Museum. Honours include National Prize of Art of Chile and Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral.
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Fernando Daza Osorio is recorded as having studied under Marta Colvin. The recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Work by Marta Colvin is recorded in the collections of Middelheim Museum. Distinctions recorded are National Prize of Art of Chile and Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral.

Escultura en tumba de Marta Colvin, en Cementerio Municipal de Chillán, Chile.
José Joaquín Cortes

Escultura Monumento a Laurita Lagos en Cementerio Municipal de Chillán, Chile.
José Joaquín Cortes
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• Name — Marta Colvin • Birth Name — Marta Colvin Andrade • Born — 1907 • Birthplace — Chillán, Chile • Died — 27 October 1995 • Place of death — Santiago, Chile • Education — University of Chile • Occupation — Sculptor Marta Colvin Andrade (1907–1995) was a Chilean sculptor.
Biography
Biography
Colvin was born in 1907 in Chillán to James Colvin and Elvira Andrade. Her father was of Irish descent and her mother of Portuguese descent. After the 1939 Chillán earthquake, she lived in Santiago, Chile, and studied at the School of Arts. In 1943 she was appointed assistant professor from the sculpture workshop of Julio A. Vasquez and master Lorenzo Domínguez and was officially appointed Professor in 1950. In 1948 she attended the Grande Chaumiere Academie in Paris with masters Ossian Zadkine and Henry Laurens. She went on to live in France for more than thirty years. In 1965 she took part in the first Sao Paulo Biennale. She was known worldwide and awarded the National Art Prize in 1970 in recognition of her works. She died in Santiago on 27 October 1995.
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Chillán.
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Santiago.
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Sculpture in museum collections
• Illustration — Homenaje a la Neurocirugía, sculpture by Marta Colvin. Instituto de Neurocirugía, Providencia, Santiago, Chile • Illustration — Himno al Trabajo • Illustration — Colvin, Marta - Madre Tierra • Silvia, 1946, bronze, 80 x 43 x 50 cm, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art • Danza para tu sombra, 1952, granit, 3,5 x 3 x 2,8 m, tomb of the dancer Isabel Glatzel, General Santiago Cemetery • Buste de Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, 1952, Square de l'Amérique-Latine, Paris • Homenaje a la Neurocirugía, 1953, bronze, 3 m tall, Instituto de Neurocirugía, Santiago • Eslabón, 1956, sycamore wood, 64cm de hauteur, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago • Quinchamalí, 1956, wood, 1.27 x 0.55 x 0.5 m; Parque de las Esculturas Marta Colvin de Chillán • Manutara, 1957, bronze, 1,6 m, Battersea Park, London • Terra Mater, 1957, bois, 2 m; Pinacoteca de la Universidad de Concepción • Andes, 1959, bronze, 0,50 m, Palais du Quirinal, Rome • Yo sostengo tu cruz, 1960, bois, 2,3 m; Benedictine Monastery of the Santísima Trinidad de Las Condes, Santiago • Signo solar / Grand Signe, 1963, Andes stone, 2,4 x 2 x 2,2 m, Musée de la sculpture en plein air, Paris • Monumento a Laurita Lagos, 1964, Chillán stone, 3 m, Cimetiere de Chillán • Las torres del silencio, 1960-1963, stone, 3,5 x 1,25 x 0,5 m, Musée de sculpture en plein air de Middelheim • Vigías, 1968, polished wood, 2 m tall; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago • Le Grand Signe, 1970, bronze, 2,4 x 2 x 2,2 m, Musée de la sculpture en plein air, Paris • Mural de Osaka, 1970, stone and copper, Museum of Osaka • Puerta del Sol, 1970, red Andes stone, Museum of Pontoise • Señal del bosque / Signal en forêt, 1971, wood, 4,5 x 4 x 2 m, Forest of Sénart • El árbol de la vida, 1971, stone, Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Santiago • Carrefour de l'esprit, 1972, wood, 4,5 x 4 x 2 m, College of Villepinte • Caleuche (Nef), 1975, Andes stone, 3.5 x 2 x 2 m, port of Saint-Nazaire • Victoire, 1978, stone, 4 x 3 x 2 m, Régiment Bouliac, Bordeaux • Léviathan, 1977, wood, 4.5 x 3 x 3 m, Lycée Professionnel "Professeur Clerc" in Outreau (Pas-de-Calais) • Mélusine, 1978, stone, 2,5 m, Collège de la Crèche, Niort • Rosa de los vientos, 1979, stone, 3,60 x 3 x 3 m, Faculté d'Ontologie de l'Université de Paris • Homenaje a los templarios, 1981, stone, 4 x 3,5 x 3 m, Ville Nouvelle de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines • Espíritu del agua, 1982, bronze, 3 x 2 x 1,5 m, Plaza del General de Gaulle, Marly-le-Roi • Vigía del mar, 1983, granite, 6,5 x 3 x 2 m, Fort Crozon, Brest, France • Horizonte andino, 1986, stone, 0,21 x 0,46 x 0,16 m, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago • Madre Tierra / Pachamama, 1986, red Andes stone, 4.18 x 1.26 x 1.04 m, Museo Parque de las Esculturas de Santiago • Himno al trabajo, 1989, polychromed wood, Cámara Chilena de la Construcción, Santiago • Señal de oriente y occidente / Signal, 1991, polychromed wood, 3.5 m, Sculpture park of Séoul • Alas al viento, stone, sculpture park, University of Talca • Monumento a Sucre, Plaza Sucre, Ñuñoa, Santiago
Primary material
Documents and archives
scholarly publication
- Colvin, Marta, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2011
- Marta Colvin, medio siglo de pasión artística, Atenea (Concepción), 1988
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1988
Institutional database
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q578443: Marta Colvin
Scholarly · Wikimedia Foundation
reference work
- “Marta Colvin”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Artes (Chile), Museo Nacional de Bellas. Centenario: colección Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1910-2010. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. 2009. 978-956-8890-00-1.
- 2.Instituto de Historia, Universidad Católica de Chile. Historia. 2001.
- 3.Viñuales, Rodrigo Gutiérrez. Arte latinoamericano del siglo XX. Otras historias de la Historia. Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. 9 January 2016. 978-84-15770-83-1.
- 4.Marta Colvin is Dead. New York Daily News. 9. 1995-10-31.
- 5.Busto de Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna realizado por Marta Colvin. Museo Nacional Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna.
- 6.La Sociedad de Neurocirugía de Chile. Revista Chilena de Neurocirugía. neurocirugiachile.org. 42. 2016. 0716-4491.
- 7.Marta Colvin - Artistas Visuales Chilenos, AVCh, MNBA. www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl.
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scholarly publication
Colvin, Marta, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011Crossref registry
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Institutional witnessInstitutional database
Wikidata, structured authority record Q578443: Marta ColvinWikimedia Foundation
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