Beverly Pepper
Beverly Pepper is an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remains independent from any particular art movement. She was married to the writer Curtis Bill Pepper.
Pepper was born Beverly Stoll on December 20, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. At sixteen, she entered the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York to study advertising design, photography, and industrial design. She then embarked on a career as a commercial art director. She studied at Art Students League and attended night classes at Brooklyn College, including art theory with Gyrgy Kepes, who introduced her to the work of Lasl MoholyNagy and Man Ray. It was also at this time, in her mid twenties, that she met the environmental artist Frederick Kiesler. Drawn to postwar Europe in 1949, she studied painting in Paris at the Acadmie de la Grande Chaumire. There she attended classes with cubist painter Andr LHte, and with Fernand Lger at his atelier. She also visited the studios of Ossip Zadkine and Brncui.
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