The Sculptor's Funeral is the only podcast dedicated to figurative sculptors living and working today. Art history, tech talk, news, and interviews for the figurative sculptor working in the Western European tradition of figurative sculpture, along with a social media forum and listener mail/questions/comments make this podcast required listening for any sculptor who knows the Fine Arts aren't dead, they just smell a little funny.

Huntington was a prolific American sculptor in the early 20th century, but her greatest legacy may be the extensive and unique sculpture park she built, the first of its kind in the United States. Listen here to learn about the past and future of Brookgreen Garden; with interviews with Bryan Rapp and Robin Salmon.

Direct download: Episode_89_-_Anna_Hyatt_Huntington_and_Brookgreen_Garden.mp3
Category:20th Century -- posted at: 10:51am EDT

Gutzon Borglum's masterpiece, the Mount Rushmore National Monument... Overblown tourist attraction, or a sculpture for the Ages? Listen to the unlikely story of its creation, and you might decide that somehow it's both.

Direct download: Episode_74_-_The_Shrine_of_Democracy.mp3
Category:20th Century -- posted at: 3:12pm EDT

Who is Gutzon Borglum, you ask? How strange that the sculptor of the Mount Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota is practically unknown, even in the United States. In the first of this two-part episode, we look at the life and work of the man, before he met the mountain.

Direct download: Episode_73_-_Gutzon_Borglum_The_One_Man_War.mp3
Category:20th Century -- posted at: 4:13am EDT

Daniel Chester French's greatest work is arguably the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. but where does 'greatness' in art come from? Is it given to the artwork by its creator, or is it, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder?

Direct download: Episode_71_-_The_Lincoln_Memorial.mp3
Category:20th Century -- posted at: 2:13am EDT

Episode 36 - Malvina Hoffman - Yesterday is Tomorrow

Malvina Hoffman straddles the line between old and new sculptural traditions - She studied under Rodin and became a champion of Modernism, but is most remembered for her naturalistic portraiture which documented native peoples from all over the planet. In this Season Finale of the Sculptor's Funeral, Jason explores Hoffman's magnificent and problematic Magnum Opus, the Hall of the Races of Mankind.

Direct download: Episode_36_-Malvina_Hoffman_-_yesterday_is_tomorrow.mp3
Category:20th Century -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

Episode 35 - Sargeant Jagger

In this episode, we trace the short career of Sargeant Jagger - British figurative sculptor and decorated World War One Veteran - the artist who brought Realism to the genre of war memorials, and thereby changed the way nations remember their fallen.

Direct download: Episode_35_-_Sargeant_Jagger.mp3
Category:20th Century -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

Jason introduces himself, explains what this podcast is all about, and why he calls it The Sculptor's Funeral; and then, discusses the near-death experience of figurative sculpture during the 20th century.

Direct download: 01_finish_master.mp3
Category:20th Century -- posted at: 3:41am EDT