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Frederick Hart ( 1943 – 1999 ) was an American sculptor, best known for his public monuments and works of art in Bronze , Marble , and clear Acrylic (a technique he coined as "sculpting with light"). BIOGRAPHY Hart was born in Atlanta in 1943 while his father was serving in World War II . His mother died suddenly when Hart was three years old and he was subsequently cared for by his mother's family in rural South Carolina during his early childhood years. He moved to Washington, D.C. when his father remarried in the early 1950 's where he attended public school. At age sixteen, he was admitted as a philosophy major to the University Of South Carolina . Hart returned to Washington, D.C. with a desire to study art and attended the Corcoran College Of Art And Design and American University where he studied painting and drawing. Later, after sculpting a bust of a girlfriend, he realized an art form that possessed weight, volume, presence and gravity. As his interest in sculpture began to flourish, Hart became an apprentice stone carver at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. working on Gargoyles . In 1971 , while Hart was still working on the stone of the cathedral, an international competition was announced to find a sculptor for the cathedral's west facade. After three years of work and at the age of thirty-one, Hart was commissioned to create ''The Creation'' which has been described as "the most monumental commission for religious sculpture in the United States in the twentieth century." 1 It has been said that Hart was the greatest figurative sculptor since Daniel Chester French . "He not only created works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public monuments and memorials an iconology worthy of a great nation." &2 NOTABLE WORKS
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