Jack Squier (1927-2015) American, "The Torso" Sculpture. Epoxy and fiberglass. Large black sculpture of a torso and derriere. Signed, numbered 22 and dated '66 on the underside. Slight areas of patching. A couple of losses near the bottom of the sculpture. Jack Squier is internationally known for modernist sculpture. His work is part of several public collections – including those of the Johnson Museum; the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; Harvard University’s Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Instituto de Arte Contemporaneo in Lima, Peru. Sculptor Jack Squier has spent most of his career teaching sculpture as well as creating modernist, abstract sculptures. He earned a B.S. degree from Indiana University in 1950 and an M.F.A. degree from Cornell University in 1952. At that time, he began his long-time teaching career at Cornell, where in 1965 he was appointed Professor of Sculpture. The silver version of this sculpture is part of both Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art and The Everson Museum of Art. Size: 21 x 32 x 45 in.