Marta Colvin Andrade (1907–1995) was a Chilean sculptor.
Biography Colvin was born in 1907 in Chillán to James Colvin and Elvira Andrade. Her father was of Irish descent and her mother of Portuguese descent. After the 1939 Chillán earthquake, she lived in Santiago, Chile, and studied at the School of Arts. In 1943 she was appointed assistant professor from the sculpture workshop of Julio A. Vasquez and master Lorenzo Domínguez and was officially appointed Professor in 1950. In 1948 she attended the Grande Chaumiere Academie in Paris with masters Ossian Zadkine and Henry Laurens. She went on to live in France for more than thirty years. In 1965 she took part in the first Sao Paulo Biennale. She was known worldwide and awarded the National Art Prize in 1970 in recognition of her works.
She died in Santiago on 27 October 1995.
Sculpture in museum collections
Silvia, 1946, bronze, 80 x 43 x 50 cm, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art Danza para tu sombra, 1952, granit, 3,5 x 3 x 2,8 m, tomb of the dancer Isabel Glatzel, General Santiago Cemetery Buste de Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, 1952, Square de l'Amérique-Latine, Paris Homenaje a la Neurocirugía, 1953, bronze, 3 m tall, Instituto de Neurocirugía, Santiago Eslabón, 1956, sycamore wood, 64cm de hauteur, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago Quinchamalí, 1956, wood, 1.27 x 0.55 x 0.5 m; Parque de las Esculturas Marta Colvin de Chillán Manutara, 1957, bronze, 1,6 m, Battersea Park, London Terra Mater, 1957, bois, 2 m; Pinacoteca de la Universidad de Concepción Andes, 1959, bronze, 0,50 m, Palais du Quirinal, Rome Yo sostengo tu cruz, 1960, bois, 2,3 m; Benedictine Monastery of the Santísima Trinidad de Las Condes, Santiago Signo solar / Grand Signe, 1963, Andes stone, 2,4 x 2 x 2,2 m, Musée de la sculpture en plein air, Paris Monumento a Laurita Lagos, 1964, Chillán stone, 3 m, Cimetiere de Chillán Las torres del silencio, 1960-1963, stone, 3,5 x 1,25 x 0,5 m, Musée de sculpture en plein air de Middelheim Vigías, 1968, polished wood, 2 m tall; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago Le Grand Signe, 1970, bronze, 2,4 x 2 x 2,2 m, Musée de la sculpture en plein air, Paris Mural de Osaka, 1970, stone and copper, Museum of Osaka Puerta del Sol, 1970, red Andes stone, Museum of Pontoise Señal del bosque / Signal en forêt, 1971, wood, 4,5 x 4 x 2 m, Forest of Sénart El árbol de la vida, 1971, stone, Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Santiago Carrefour de l'esprit, 1972, wood, 4,5 x 4 x 2 m, College of Villepinte Caleuche (Nef), 1975, Andes stone, 3.5 x 2 x 2 m, port of Saint-Nazaire Victoire, 1978, stone, 4 x 3 x 2 m, Régiment Bouliac, Bordeaux Léviathan, 1977, wood, 4.5 x 3 x 3 m, Lycée Professionnel "Professeur Clerc" in Outreau (Pas-de-Calais) Mélusine, 1978, stone, 2,5 m, Collège de la Crèche, Niort Rosa de los vientos, 1979, stone, 3,60 x 3 x 3 m, Faculté d'Ontologie de l'Université de Paris Homenaje a los templarios, 1981, stone, 4 x 3,5 x 3 m, Ville Nouvelle de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Espíritu del agua, 1982, bronze, 3 x 2 x 1,5 m, Plaza del General de Gaulle, Marly-le-Roi Vigía del mar, 1983, granite, 6,5 x 3 x 2 m, Fort Crozon, Brest, France Horizonte andino, 1986, stone, 0,21 x 0,46 x 0,16 m, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago Madre Tierra / Pachamama, 1986, red Andes stone, 4.18 x 1.26 x 1.04 m, Museo Parque de las Esculturas de Santiago Himno al trabajo, 1989, polychromed wood, Cámara Chilena de la Construcción, Santiago Señal de oriente y occidente / Signal, 1991, polychromed wood, 3.5 m, Sculpture park of Séoul Alas al viento, stone, sculpture park, University of Talca Monumento a Sucre, Plaza Sucre, Ñuñoa, Santiago
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