Warrior
2011
Warrior is a bronze sculpture created in 2011 by Herb Alpert, the acclaimed American multidisciplinary artist born in 1935. Best known as a musician and co-founder of A&M Records, Alpert has developed a significant parallel career as a visual artist, producing bold and expressive sculptures and paintings. This work is presented courtesy of the artist himself, underscoring its direct provenance from Alpert's studio. The piece carries accession number L2023.127.1, indicating it is on loan to a museum or institutional collection.
- Medium
- Bronze
- Spotted At
- Museum · Palm Springs Art Museum
Notes
Museum or institutional wall label. Loan accession number: L2023.127.1. Presented courtesy of the artist, Herb Alpert. Ownership status noted as 'spotted' by user.
Spotted works by Herb Alpert
Artists in conversation
Jim Dine
American · b. 1935
Dine creates expressive bronze figurative sculptures with bold emotional presence, often exploring archetypal and mythological themes similar to the warrior subject matter in Alpert's piece. Both artists share a gestural expressiveness and raw surface quality in their bronze work.
Tom Otterness
American · b. 1952
Otterness works extensively in bronze to create figurative sculptures with symbolic and archetypal character types, giving human forms a bold and iconic presence that parallels Alpert's warrior figure. Both artists use bronze casting to convey powerful narrative identity through simplified yet expressive form.
Jonathan Borofsky
American · b. 1942
Borofsky creates large scale figurative bronze sculptures that embody universal human archetypes and states of being, much like Alpert's warrior figure communicates strength and symbolic identity. His expressive treatment of the human form in bronze shares the bold and emotionally charged quality found in Alpert's sculptural practice.
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