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Jean T. Kroeber
Growing up in New York City, I was introduced early in life to the making of terra cotta pieces and to wood carving. Sculpture had an immediate attraction for me, greatly reinforced when I encountered Greek history . Carving, first in wood and later in stone, became a crucial form of expression. I prefer working entirely by hand, in fairly hard wood or marble. To me, direct carving, with no mechanical reproductive process involved, is the most satisfying. I strive for simplified forms, influenced by Greek and Romanesque sculpture and by the strong figures of Maillol. Each piece of stone or wood is a unique challenge from which a living human form may be extracted while the inherent qualities of the material are enhanced.
I am a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe and studied with Jose de Creeft at the Art Students League. I have been elected to artist membership in:
Allied Artists of America
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
Salmagundi Club
For the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, I have served on the board for many years, as Vice President for Sculpture, as President, and now as Permanent Advisor. I am also an artist member of New York Artists Equity, the Chaffee Center for the Visual Arts, Southern Vermont Artists, and a Colleague of the National Sculpture Society. My work is regularly exhibited in many juried shows in New York, with Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Pen and Brush, and the Salmagundi Club. In Vermont my sculpture is shown every year at the Chaffee Center for the Visual Arts, in Rutland, and the Southern Vermont Art Center, in Manchester. Belanthi Gallery, in New York, and Cortina Gallery, Killington, Vermont, always have some of my sculpture on view, and my work is in many private collections across the country.