Grace Knowlton, a sculptor who favored the elegance of the sphere, and who presented it in multiple materials and distended shapes and in sizes that ranged from the ornamental ball to an eight-foot boulder, died on Dec. 4 at a memory care facility in Old Tappan, N.J. She was 88. Her daughter Samantha Knowlton said the cause was complications of dementia. She liked to show them in groupings that she arranged spontaneously, creating their own internal dynamic in relation to one another. Ms. Knowlton, a highly eclectic artist, was also a painter and a photographer and liked to draw. She also created a full-blown artists’ colony on her property in the exclusive hamlet of Snedens Landing, in Palisades, N.Y., along the west side of the Hudson River.

Source: New York Times December 20, 2020 04:30 UTC