Harriet Feigenbaum Explained

Harriet Feigenbaum (born 1939) is an American ecofeminist artist and sculptor. Many of her works are publicly displayed or in collections in New York. Her later work focused on reclamation projects, often of old mining cites, in Pennsylvania.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} Robert Stackhouse's work has been compared to Feigenbaum's.^[5]

List of important works, in chronological order

• (1976) Tantric,^[6] Cornell University.
• (1977) Cycles II--Land Structures Built Where the Petroglyphs Are Made by Children,^[7] Artpark, Lewiston, New York.
• (1978) Widow's Walk and Dog Run,^[8] Harriman Park Palisades, New York.
• (1978) Battery Park City-A Mirage,^[9] Creative Time, Inc., New York, New York.
• (1978) Parking Lot Pentagon off Washington Avenue,^[10] New York City, New York.
• (1978) An Octagonal Domed Building.^[11]
• (1983) Dickson City Land Waves: Valley of 8000 Pines.^{[12] [13]}
• (1984) Dickson City Land Waves: Black Walnut Forest^[14] (incomplete^[15])
• (1988) Greenwood Colliery Sundial^[16]
• (1989) Distant Landscape,^[17] Colgate University Picker Art Gallery, Hamilton, New York.
• (1990) Memorial to Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust,^{[18] [19]} New York City, New York.

Legacy and impact

Feigenbaum was the subject of Phyllis Koestenbaum's poem, "Harriet Feigenbaum Is a Sculptor", published in Poetry New York, which was included in the 1993 volume of The Best American Poetry series,^[20] and later reprinted in her collection Doris Day and Kitschy Melodies.^[21]

Personal life

Feigenbaum married Neil W. Chamberlain in 1968. In 1988 Feigenbaum, who is Jewish, designed a memorial of the Auschwitz concentration camp for the Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State.^[22]

External links

• https://www.harrietfeigenbaum.com/home.html

Notes and References

1. Book: Sellers-Young . Barbara . Artists Activating Sustainability: The Oregon Story . 2022 . Anthem Press . 978-1-78527-914-0 . en.
2. Book: Conlogue . William . Undermined in Coal Country: On the Measures in a Working Land . 2017 . JHU Press . 978-1-4214-2318-0 . 30 . en.
3. Web site: Harriet Feigenbaum. 1986-09-13. InLiquid. 2019-07-26.
4. Book: Wilson, Stephen. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. registration. harriet feigenbaum.. 2002. MIT Press. 9780262731584. 133.
5. Book: The tent book. Hatton. E. M.. Hatton. Hap. 1979-10-16. Houghton Mifflin. 9780395276136. 146.
6. Web site: Tantric, (sculpture). Smithsonian Institution. 2019-07-26.
7. Web site: Cycles II--Land Structures Built Where the Petroglyphs Are Made by Children (sculpture). Smithsonian Institution. 2019-07-26.
8. Web site: Widow's Walk and Dog Run, (sculpture). Smithsonian Institution. 2019-07-26.
9. Web site: Battery Park City-A Mirage, (sculpture). Smithsonian Institution. 2019-07-26.
10. Web site: Parking Lot Pentagon off Washington Avenue, (sculpture). Smithsonian Institution. 2019-07-26.
11. Book: The tent book. Hatton. E. M.. Hatton. Hap. 1979-10-16. Houghton Mifflin. 9780395276136. 140.
12. Web site: Dickson City Land Waves: Valley of 8000 Pines, (sculpture). Smithsonian Institution. 2019-07-26.
13. Book: Sites and Solutions: Recent Public Art : October 12-November 18, 1984, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, January 9-February 2, 1985, Gallery 400, College of Architecture, Art, and Urban Planning, the University of Illinois at Chicago. 1985. Freedman Gallery, Albright College. 9780941972024. 16.
14. Web site: Dickson City Land Waves: Black Walnut Forest, (sculpture). Smithsonian Institution. 2019-07-26.
15. Book: Undermined in Coal Country: On the Measures in a Working Land. Conlogue. Bill. Conlogue. William. 2017-09-29. JHU Press. 9781421423180. 30.
16. Web site: Greenwood Colliery Sundial, (sculpture). Smithsonian Institution. 2019-07-26.
17. Web site: Distant Landscape, (sculpture). Smithsonian Institution. 2019-07-26.
18. Web site: Design Awards: Tenth Annual Awards for Excellence in Design. October 22, 1991. Public Design Commission of the City of New York. https://web.archive.org/web/20150930195514/http://www.nyc.gov/html/artcom/html/awards/award-1991.shtml. September 30, 2015. dead.
19. Web site: Monument to the Injustice of the Holocaust, (sculpture). Smithsonian Institution. 2019-07-26.
20. Web site: The Best American Poetry 1993, Guest Edited by Louise Glück. bestamericanpoetry.com. 2019-07-26.
21. Book: Koestenbaum, Phyllis. Doris Day and kitschy melodies: prose poems. September 2001. La Questa Press. 9780964434844.
22. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/27/nyregion/a-memorial-to-holocaust-is-approved.html By Cecilia Cummings July 27, 1988 "A Memorial To Holocaust Is Approved" The New York Times