Archipenko

[ ahr-kuh-peng-koh; Russian uhr-khyee-pyin-kuh ]

noun

1. A·le·ksan·der Por·fir·ie·vich [al-ig-, zan, -der per-, feer, -, uh, -vich, -, zahn, -, uh-lyi-, ksahndr, puh, r, -, fyee, -, r, yi-vyich], 1887–1964, U.S. sculptor, born in Russia.

Archipenko

/ arˈxipɪnkə /

noun

1. ArchipenkoAleksandr Porfiryevich18871964MUSRussianARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptorARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Aleksandr Porfiryevich (alɪkˈsandr parˈfirjɪvitʃ). 1887– 1964, Russian sculptor and painter, in the US after 1923, whose work is characterized by economy of form

Example Sentences

They now fill a gallery at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, which was founded in 1971 and has a permanent collection with works by Alexander Archipenko, Jules Olitski and Patrick Caulfield.

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Barnes favored cutting-edge modernism; neither a folk artist nor a Cubist, Barthé was closer in style to Rodin than to Jacques Lipchitz, Alexander Archipenko and the other sculptors Barnes collected.

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An exhibition of sculptures, paintings and drawings by the 20th-century artist Alexander Archipenko is on view through Dec. 31.

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She also convinced notable artists of the time, like the sculptors Alexander Archipenko and Gaston Lachaise, to contribute appropriately sized art.

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Ms. Mangan is one of half a dozen scholars contributing to the volume, which covers Ms. Tawney’s origins in a blue-collar Ohio community, two brief marriages, mentors including the artist Alexander Archipenko and self-reinvention in early middle age as an avant-garde Manhattanite.

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