Martin Puryear

American Artist · 1941–

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A desire to "make things rather than representations of them" led Martin Puryear from his early training in painting and drawing to sculpture. A video on the making of his sculpture *That Profile* for the Getty Center vividly details his fascination with the process of making sculpture. After graduating in 1963, he joined the Peace Corps, which sent him to Sierra Leone. There, West African craftsm

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