Mac Wells, Convergence by Wyeth Alexander
Mac Wells (American 1925-2009)
Convergence
1965
Acrylic on canvas
30 1/2 in x 50 1/2 in
Artist’s Biography:
Mac Wells has been an active member of the American Abstract Artists since 1967. He conveyed his love of art to art students over 30 years of teaching at Hunter College. Mac Wells was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1925 and moved to New York in 1951. Wells showed with the A.M. Sachs, Max Hutchinson and Susan Caldwell Galleries in the 1960s and 1970s. During the 1960s the artist was close to the Park Place cooperative and exhibited paintings along with this group. In 1993 he was the recipient of a Mark Rothko Foundation Award Exhibition at ARTISTS SPACE in New York.
His work is included in many collections, including The Wadsworth Atheneum, Harford CT, The Denver Museum of Art, Denver CO, The Santa Fe Museum, Santa Fe NM, Columbus Museum of Fine Art, Columbus OH, Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgfield CT, and the Print Collections of the Guggenheim Museum, NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY and The New York Public Library.
(Biography courtesy of Minus Space)
The Motherland Calls, (Russian: Родина-мать зовёт! Rodina Mat’ Zovyot!), also called Mother Motherland, Mother Motherland Is Calling, simply The Motherland, or The Mamayev Monument, is a statue in Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad. It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin. Declared the largest statue in the world in 1967, it is the last non-religious statue to be declared the largest; every record holder since has been a Buddhism-related sculpture. Compared to the later higher statues, The Motherland Calls is significantly more complex from an engineering point of view, due to its characteristic posture with a sword raised high in the right hand and the left hand protruded in a calling gesture. The technology behind the statue is based on a combination of prestressed concrete with wire ropes structure, a solution which can be found also in another work of Nikitin’s, the super-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow.
