Nancy Graves (1939-1995) American, Etching and Silkscreen. Titled "Time Shapes the Stalactite, 1991". Nancy Graves was active/lived in New York and Massachusetts. She is known for Mod sculptor and mod figure painter. A sculptor of animals and American Indian shamanistic objects, filmmaker, and painter, Nancy Graves had a highly successful and varied career, primarily in New York City. In her abstract work, she united her interest in anthropology, totemic objects, cartography, and biomorphic shapes. Nancy Graves came of artistic age in the 1960's, part of a group of Yale School of Art MFA graduates that included Chuck Close and Richard Serra, among others. Graves and these contemporaries often had little in common in terms of artistic style, but what they did share was a feeling that the heroic, mythic individualism practiced by the Abstract Expressionists and the highly formalist abstraction championed by Clement Greenberg were exhausted. Overall Size: 56 1/2 x 55 in Sight Size: 51 x 51 in