Gib Singleton "Home Sweet Home" Giclee on Canvas with Custom Frame Hand Signed

Description: Sign up for my email newsletters by adding my eBay Store to your Favorites!Check out my 6,800 other items!Be sure to add me to your favorites list! We have a 100% guarantee of authenticity and a 30 day return policy. "Home Sweet Home" Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas Hand Signed by Gib Singleton Framed Size: 32.5" x 25" Image Size: 28" x 22" Edition Number: 112 AP Custom Frame Condition: MINT Make an Offer!! Email us for detailed condition or more photos - see our "ME" page.Questions? Contact us through our About Me page. Gib Singleton Gilbert Jerome “Gib” Singleton, one of America’s foremost sculptors whose devotional crucifix work was held close by Pope John Paul II, died at his Santa Fe home on Friday, Feb. 28, according to an email from a family friend. Singleton’s work is in the collections of the Vatican, Yad Vashem, the Museum of Biblical Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. The first monumental versions of his Fourteen Stations of the Cross were installed in 2010 at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe. Singleton was born in Kennett, Missouri in 1935, to a family of sharecroppers. As a child of 3, he began to draw with sticks in the dirt and sculpt figures from mud and straw. He won his first blue ribbon for art at the state fair at age 9 and was soon selling pencil portraits to friends and neighbors. He became fascinated with bronze as a medium and built his first foundry from scrap when he was 16, said John Goekler, a Santa Fe neighborhood leader, educator and director of the Gib Singleton Museum, in an email. Singleton served in the U.S. Army as a tank commander, earned a degree in art education from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, then won a full scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago. He earned a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. In Florence, he helped restore artworks damaged by the Arno floods and was later recruited by the Vatican Workshop, where he helped to restore priceless paintings and sculptures, including Michelangelo’s Pieta after it was vandalized in 1972. After his time in Europe, Singleton headed the sculpture department at Fairfield University, then moved to Santa Fe. In 2004, he was committed to hospice with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and told he had only six days to live. He refused to accept that prognosis and, though confined to a wheelchair, worked nearly another decade. During that time he create many of his most noted works, including The Dove, Saint Francis, Lincoln, The Death of Christ, the Fourteen Stations of the Cross, Aces and Eights and his own Requiem. The Gib Singleton Museum of Fine Art was founded in Santa Fe in 2008 at 112 W. San Francisco St. in Plaza Mercado by Paul Zueger and other supporters to showcase his work. The museum website had been updated Saturday with news of his death and included a favorite saying, “I love you man and I’ll catch ya on the other side” — Gib Singleton, 1935-2014. Singleton’s religious pieces became know around the world with the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, as images of the pontiff splashed across newspapers, magazines and websites. In thousands of those images, the pope is pictured carrying a pastoral staff with a bronze crucifix made by Singleton. And while the crucifix has become one of the most-seen pieces of sculpture in the world during the mourning for the pontiff, Singleton opted to keep a low profile, and declined to be interviewed by The New Mexican. “He’s had several opportunities from all over the country to give interviews for different articles, but he has chosen not to talk to anyone — primarily because he does not feel it’s appropriate at this time with the pope lying in repose,” said Fenton Moore, owner director of Galerie Züger in Santa Fe, where much of Singleton’s work had been on display. Singleton’s work includes both religious and secular subjects. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City and the Vatican Museum. Another of his crosses rests with the Shroud of Turin, which some believe was the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. Among his nonreligious subjects, Singleton has sculpted Old West images of cowboys and Indians, the Pony Express and one inspired by the film Easy Rider. “He does it all: musicians, cowboys, religious pieces,” Moore said in the 2005 interview. Near the end of his life, Singleton said there were two things he hoped people would remember him for, Goekler wrote in an email to The New Mexican. First was bringing the term “emotional realism” into the art world. He believed the feelings a piece of art evokes are just as real as the piece itself or the museum in which it hangs, and that the ability to evoke powerful feelings is the mark of great art. “What matters about art isn’t how it looks,” Singelton said, according to Goekler. “It’s how it makes us feel. That it makes us feel. That it gets our attention and draws us in and opens us up. And in a world where so much of the stuff going on around us just hurts and makes us numb, that’s a damn good thing.” Second was helping to bring spiritual art into the mainstream in America. “People need security in the metaphysical world even more than in the physical world,” Singleton said. “There are a lot of things that make no ‘objective’ sense if we try to analyze them. Yet they do make sense – a great deal of sense – if we approach them with our hearts instead of our heads. That’s how I try to work.” A July, 2000, obituary in The New Mexican stated that Singleton had a daughter who died at age 25, and at that time the artist was married. No information about his family, or funeral arrangements was available Saturday as Goekler could not be reached for additional details. Email us for detailed condition or more photos - see our "ME" page.Questions? Contact us through our About Me page. Click here to see more fine art in our store!! Buyer will pay actual shipping cost. 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