![]() Later his carving skills led him to work for Martin Heiligmann, a gilder of fine objects and frames. ![]() In 1943, shortly after his study for a mural Entrée á Paradis was awarded the Karl Zerbe prize, he left school in order to apprentice at several craft-related organizations.įor a period during World War II, he served as draftsman at Harvard's Underwater Sound Laboratory. He was known as jittery Gibran for prodigious production fueled by an abundance of nervous energy and for his deep concern that he not be a burden to his family. ![]() Winner of The Boit Summer Competition in 1942, the young artist soon was recognized as a master of diverse materials. “They let us develop our own vision while grounding us in the fundamentals – drawing, anatomy, techniques, and materials". However, he chose a partial scholarship given by the painting department where he studied with Karl Zerbe. He was offered a full scholarship if he concentrated on sculpture. Gibran entered the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1940. At eleven, he received Honorable Mention in a national soap-carving contest, and during his senior year at English High School, was awarded the Lawrence Prize for Art. He regularly visited the local public library and enjoyed crafting exotic objects like the scimitar in Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum or the guillotine from Tale of Two Cities. As a boy, he frequented the Denison House where he occasionally would see social worker Amelia Earhart drive up in her famous yellow roadster. Gibran lived in what is now Chinatown, Boston, and attended local public schools. From his cabinet-maker father, he learned about instrument making and helped fashion stringed instruments, including a miniature violin that he treasured all his life. Gibran spent hours in his father's woodworking workshop. Related to the author on both sides of his family, he was nurtured by his Lebanese immigrant family in Boston. The third of five children, he was inspired by his namesake cousin and godfather, the poet Gibran Kahlil Gibran. Gibran aspired to be an artist since he was seven. Gibran is known for multiple skills, including painting wood, wax, and stone carving welding and instrument making. In 1972, in an effort to separate his identity from his famous relative and namesake, the author of The Prophet, Gibran Kahlil Gibran, who was cousin both to his father Nicholas Gibran and his mother Rose Gibran, the sculptor co-authored with his wife Jean a biography of the poet entitled Kahlil Gibran His Life And World. ![]() Called a "master of materials", as both artist and restorer, Gibran turned to sculpture in the mid-fifties. ![]() A student of the painter Karl Zerbe at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibran first received acclaim as a magic realist painter in the late 1940s when he exhibited with other emerging artists later known as the "Boston Expressionists". Gibran (`ka-lil jə-ˈbrän) (November 29, 1922 – April 13, 2008), sometimes known as "Kahlil George Gibran" (note the artist's preferred Americanized spelling of his first name), was a Lebanese American painter and sculptor from Boston, Massachusetts. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA ![]()
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