Saint Joan

Spencer Museum of Art

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Cecil Carstenson, artist

1906–1991

Saint Joan, late 1960s

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: carving; walnut wood

Credit line: Gift of Marcia and Eliot Berkley

Accession number: 1991.0087

Not on display

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Debut

Throughout his prolific career as a sculptor of wood, Cecil Carstenson taught at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, conducted workshops on carving and technique, and wrote the book The Craft and Creation of Wood Sculpture. This stylized bust captures the iconic short-cropped hair of Joan of Arc (1412–1431), heroine of the French during the Hundred Years’ War.

Debut

Throughout his prolific career as a sculptor of wood, Cecil Carstenson taught at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, conducted workshops on carving and technique, and wrote the book The Craft and Creation of Wood Sculpture. This stylized bust captures the iconic short-cropped hair of Joan of Arc (1412–1431), heroine of the French during the Hundred Years’ War.