| LC control no. | n 50040707 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Marisol, 1930-2016 |
| Variant(s) | Escobar, Marisol, 1930-2016 Escobar, María Sol, 1930-2016 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Caracas (Venezuela) Los Angeles (Calif.) New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1930-05-22 |
| Death date | 2016-04-30 |
| Place of birth | Paris (France) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Wood sculpture Pop art Folk art |
| Affiliation | Jepson Art Institute École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France) Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) |
| Profession or occupation | Sculptors |
| Found in | Marisol (wood sculpture). [FS] 1968. Information from 678 converted Dec. 19, 2014 (wood sculptor) The world goes pop, 2015: page 206 (Marisol, b. 1930 Marisol Escobar, in Paris, France. Lives and works in New York City.) Wikipedia WWW site, March 9, 2016: (Maria Sol Escobar (born May 22, 1930), otherwise known simply as Marisol, is a sculptor born in Paris of Venezuelan lineage, working in New York City. Marisol studied art at the Jepson Art Institute, École des Beaux-Arts, the Art Students League of New York, at the New School for Social Research and she was a student of artist Hans Hofmann. The pop art culture in the 1960s found Marisol as one of its members, enhancing her recognition and popularity. Marisol concentrates her work on three-dimensional portraits, using inspiration "found in photographs or gleaned from personal memories") New York times WWW site, viewed May 5, 2016 (in obituary published May 2: Marisol; b. María Sol Escobar, May 22, 1930, Paris, to a wealthy Venezuelan family; grew up in Paris and Caracas; the family moved to Los Angeles in 1946; adopted Marisol as her name when she began exhibiting in New York in the late 1950s; d. Saturday [Apr. 30, 2016], Manhattan, aged 85; Venezuelan-American artist who fused Pop Art imagery and folk art in assemblages and sculptures that, together with her mysterious, Garboesque persona, made her one of the most compelling artists on the New York scene in the 1960s) |
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