








François STAHLY (1911-2006)
The Summer of the Forest, 1964
“The Summer of the Forest” is a monumental group sculpted by François Stahly in the early sixties, which only Americans and certain tourists have seen to date, if they were fortunate enough to visit the Rockefeller estate in the Hudson Valley.
Consisting of a portico and several oak columns or totems, it is part of a series of works that combine and explore the theme of elevation and organicity. “Wood, this living and seductive material that encourages us to follow the sinuosities of its growth,” as the sculptor wrote, allowed him to give free rein to his imaginative power, as he confessed to working “like a growing tree or plant.”
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