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Shelter is a favorite image of Puryear's. For Beckwourth, 1980, presents a kind of solid wooden hogan with an ovoid top plastered in cracked mud, recalling both the primitive hut and the origins of the pendentive dome. (Jim Beckwourth is a figure often invoked by Puryear's sculpture. The freed son of a white man and a black slave woman, he served as a guide for various Western expeditions in the early 19th century, fought in the Mexican War and was at one point made a chief of the Crow Indians -- a symbol of multicultural America if ever there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Delight in A Shaping Hand | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...Puryear's work has the exact American-grain quality -- if not the episodic fussiness -- of that earlier virtuoso of the dovetail and the lamination, the sculptor H.C. Westermann. It also has some of Westermann's laconic humor. Sanctuary, 1982, is one such piece: a cubical box of thick wood mounted on two raw branches with the bark still on them, which turn out to be "legs," pedaling a wooden wheel -- a sort of absurd unicycle, designed for flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Delight in A Shaping Hand | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...protesters, Tony Puryear, a former student who therefore cannot be charged for violating USCA regulations, was banned from campus by Brown police. He will be subject to a misdemeanor arrest should he set foot on Brown property without an police escort, John Kuprevich, police and security director, said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Students Face Discipline Over Casey Speech Disruption | 10/31/1981 | See Source »

...hand, one can be sure what the sculptor Martin Puryear is about with a subtly irregular circle of dark bent wood, some four feet in diameter, a minimal serpent with a knob for a head: this hand some and assured object is like a blowup of a tribal bracelet, but with more sculptural presence. On the other, one of the best pieces in the show is Alvin Loving's wall hanging of sewed, dyed canvas, Shades of '73: Composition for 1980, whose variegated strips are like a moody, floral version of a constructivist motif and seem to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Going Back to Africa | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

These two projects would be delayed anyway until federal guidelines for DNA research are written, Puryear added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst to Consider Ban on DNA Research; Delayed Part Stalls Completion of DNA Lab | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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