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Kent Ullberg Retrospective Sculpture ExhibitionA traveling retrospective exhibit of 48 pieces by Kent Ullberg, widely recognized as one of the world's leading wildlife sculptors, will be on display at the Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado until March 12, 2006, the last stop of an 18-month, nationwide tour.
The Museum is located at 809 Fifteenth Street in Golden.
David Wagner, Ph.D., is the exhibit's curator and tour director.
Ullberg maintains studios in Loveland, Colorado and Corpus Christi, Texas.
Exhibition sculptures were selected from the more than 50 monuments and 250 smaller castings Ullberg has produced in his career and represent creatures from land, sea and air.
Models give insight into Ullberg's sense of design and mechanics.
Others are smaller sculptures of unique and delicate beauty.
Pieces in the exhibition span from 1969's 'Owl' to 2004's 'Archipenkos Heron,' and includes "Wind in the Sails," a 1999 stainless steel sculpture that stands in Stockholm, Sweden.
The exhibit premiered at Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, and was mounted in response to a monumental public art commission created by Ullberg for the new First National Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
The bank installation, of epic scale, involves 58 bronze and stainless steel geese with eight-foot wingspans lifting off from a downtown fountain and entering
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