3 Aunt Sukey’s Way. [2010, Dunlap]
John Kearney Workshop. John “Jack” Kearney of Chicago, who trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and in Italy, was a sculptor in the classical medium of bronze and the less classical medium of automobile parts. This was his studio and fabrication plant, on property he purchased in 1984. The workshop was built in 1986, according to Town records.
“Kearney has welded the curved ends of chrome car bumpers into the organic shapes of such beasts as the bison, Siberian tiger, snowy egret and white rhinoceros,” Christopher Busa wrote in Provincetown Arts. Among the works cast here were characters from The Wizard of Oz, for Oz Park in Chicago. When a girl spotted the newly finished Tin Man, she admonished the sculptor that he’d forgotten the heart. Kearney told her father to bring her back the next day, by which time he’d given Tin Man a heart of stainless steel. A man of great heart himself, Kearney died in 2014.
His family still owns the property.
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Left: Jack Kearney. [2009, Ann Wood] Right: Template painted on a concrete pad outside the workshop. [2010, Dunlap]
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A Kearney menagerie
At the Berta Walker Gallery. [2018, Dunlap]
At the Berta Walker Gallery. [2016, Dunlap]
At the Berta Walker Gallery. [2018, Dunlap]
Left: Outside the workshop. [2009, Dunlap] Right: At 205 Bradford Street. [2008, Dunlap]
At the workshop. [2010, Dunlap]
At the workshop. [2010, Dunlap]
At the workshop. [2010, Dunlap]
Outside the workshop. [2009, Dunlap]
At 23-25 Commercial Street. [2009, Dunlap]
At the workshop. [2010, Dunlap]
At the Berta Walker Gallery. [2011, Dunlap]
At the Berta Walker Gallery. [2011, Dunlap]
On the workshop bulletin board. [2010, Dunlap]
On the workshop bulletin board. [2010, Dunlap]
On the workshop bulletin board. [2010, Dunlap]
Drawing for a pterodactyl. [2010, Dunlap]
Plaque on the workshop wall. [2010, Dunlap]
On the workshop bulletin board. [2010, Dunlap]
Cole Shacochis Edwards wrote on 28 May 2013: Our sculpture is something we saved and planned to buy for years. Really cool pictures of the studio!
Daniel R. Kearney wrote on 2 July 2011: Nice pics of the studio. Thanks, David!
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