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\u201cArt is a way of looking at the world and the Artist has a responsibility to tell a certain kind of truth.<\/em>\u201d -Howard Newman<\/p>\n Howard Newman is a painter, sculptor and restoration artist born and raised in New York. His is also an incredible conversationalist whose work is about telling stories. His interests are rooted in science and philosophy, language, technology and the mysterious ways in which we operate within this world. Near a lush garden with cats sleeping beside bronze figures, Howard’s studio is in the garage of the home he shares with wife and collaborator, Mary.<\/p>\n He studied Architecture, Cultural Anthropology and Classical Literature at Miami University of Ohio before he received an MFA in Metalsmithing from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied with his mentor John Prip.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Howard-Newman-9.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Howard-Newman-9 – Image” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_direction=”left”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]Howard was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant in Italy where he and Mary lived in a 15th century farmhouse south of Florence. There he made his first bronze sculptures using foundries all over Tuscany. He returned to Providence where he was soon being collected and shown in galleries, gathering attention from critics and museums.<\/p>\n For the over thirty years he has created bronzes based on his studies in architecture, anthropology, design, and metalsmithing. His fascination with the way things work drive his own personal path of intellectual questioning and finding solutions.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard_Newman_giulia.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard_Newman_Half-Woman_Quarter_bird.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n “One of the biggest problems of being an artist, is one has to make a living. At the same time, making that living has to be secondary to being an artist. It’s a balance of understanding the business and the business of making art. If you are going to be an artist, one of the saddest things are the people who do only the business end and sacrifice their essential spirits. So the real question is, How big is your spirit?<\/em>” -Howard<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Howard-Newman-in-studio.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Howard-Newman-in-studio – Image” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n During the 1980s-1990s, Howard taught one class a year in various departments at The Rhode Island School of Design where he encouraged his students to build analytical constructions through critical observation.<\/p>\n “Change is the only constant. Artist has to be good and very adept at changing. If you are very good at changing, then you are set to be an artist.<\/em>” -Howard<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard-Newman-10.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard_Newman_duet.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard-Newman-6.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n Howard\u2019s work combines elements of human figures and machines into interlocking geometric shapes, ranging from machinelike Futurism to deconstructed human shapes. There is precision along with revealing the marks of original development in clay.<\/p>\n “My sculpture and drawing focused heavily on my love of refinement. But the more expressive vocabulary of wax modeling and my increasing use of color was radically expanding my vocabulary. It was then that I began making paintings.<\/em>” -Howard<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Howard_Newman_woman_with_wolf_hat.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Howard_Newman_woman_with_wolf_hat – Image” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard_Newman-1.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Howard_Newman-3.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Howard_Newman-3 – Image” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard_Newman-2.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n “We came to Rhode Island from living in New York City and doing community organizing in the 1960s. Before that we lived in Laredo, Texas. Going from dusty hot place to the bowels of New York City and over to Rhode Island gives you a unique survey of the way one could choose to live. After living in Italy on a Fullbright, we arrived here in 1976. In Newport the size of the community is parallel to one of Rennaisace Florence and Tuscany.<\/em><\/p>\n Some people would find that to be a stretch, but as someone who has studied sociology and anthropology, there is an ideal size to a community. Having an intuitive sense of one’s place in the community is conducive to creativity, to a sense of belonging, to a place to have a family and children. This is an ideal place to live. You have to have a good reason to leave, and Mary and I never found one.<\/em> -Howard<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Howard-Newman-13.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Howard-Newman-13 – Image” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard-Newman-8.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n Howard\u2019s work has been exhibited and reviewed both nationally and internationally throughout New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Rhode Island and Copenhagen.<\/p>\n His drawings, paintings and sculptures have been purchased for the permanent collections of major museums including The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, the Newark Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.<\/p>\n His many solo exhibitions include the Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, The Century Association in New York City, Feingarten Galleries in Los Angeles and The Chicago Arts Club.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard_Newman_mother_and_child.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard_Newman_the_green_monster.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard_Newman1.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n “Living a lifestyle of an artist is that everyday is a surprise. Choosing a life of an artist involves everything about not having security. The whole idea of security is a fiction. I call myself independently unemployed. I need to work for myself. Fundamentally, money alone does not provide security, and to some it does. They think that a lack of crisis is security when it really isn’t.<\/em>” -Howard<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard_Newman_filmstill4.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n He currently resides in Newport, where his art continues to evolve and his company, Newmans Limited<\/a>, specializes in the restoration of fine metal art objects, sculpture and a variety of antique mechanisms. Alongside Mary they orchestrate small teams to implement the challenging problems of restoring historical objects ranging from art bronzes, silver hollowware, antique machinery and weapons, antique optical instruments and artifacts from non-western cultures made of glass, wood, bone, and ivory.<\/p>\n No challenge or object is too unusual for them and keeps the job interesting, including the replica of a 17th horse trough in Newport’s Washington Square.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Newmans-Ltd-Press-horse-trough.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Newmans-Ltd-Press-horse-trough – Image” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n Newport Daily News articles, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n Commissions include the restoration of the Lippold sculpture for the Church of St. Gregory the Great at Portsmouth Abbey, Touro Synagogue in Newport, Brown University, and various public spaces, historical societies and libraries.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard_Newman_filmstill2.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” 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src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard_Newman_filmstill6.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n Howard fires up a small-scale replica of a fountain project.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Howard-Newman-7.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Richard_Lippold_rstoration_Abbey.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Richard_Lippold_rstoration_Abbey – Image” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n Newmans Ltd. restored the sculpture at the heart of Portsmouth Abbey’s St. Gregory the Great Church. [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Portsmouth_Abbey_Newmans-Ltd-3.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Portsmouth_Abbey_Newmans-Ltd-3 – Image” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Portsmouth_Abbey_Newmans-Ltd-4.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Portsmouth_Abbey_Newmans-Ltd-4 – Image” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_zoom=”5%”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n In the last year some of Lippold\u2019s most complicated constructions have undergone nimble-fingered repairs costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Artisans at Newmans Ltd., a metal-restoration outfit in Newport, R.I., and at the Richard Lippold Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Locust Valley, N.Y., have been clambering around scaffolding to untangle, dismantle, polish and restring sculptures on miles of wire. \u201cLippold was an engineering genius, but we\u2019ve been dealing with a piece that had reached the threshold of catastrophe,\u201d said Howard Newman, of the Newport company. The Lippold work called \u201cTrinity\u201d is about 215 aluminum bars on four miles of gold wires, spanning from floor to ceiling at a 1960s Benedictine chapel in Portsmouth, R.I. \u201cPeople\u2019s mouths fall open when they see it going back up, like they\u2019re watching a spider spin a web of blazing gold,\u201d Mr. Newman said. \u201cThe more that goes up, the more exquisite it gets.\u201d [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/newmansltd.com\/sigmasurfacing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Portsmouth_Abbey_Newmans-Ltd-5.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”Portsmouth_Abbey_Newmans-Ltd-5 – Image” _builder_version=”3.26.4″ border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”rgba(51,51,51,0.1)” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_vertical=”10px” box_shadow_blur=”30px” box_shadow_color=”rgba(34,56,101,0.09)” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” 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text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n “Every time you do something you get a return.<\/em> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.26.4″ background_color=”#f8fbfe” custom_padding=”30px||30px||true|false” collapsed=”off”][et_pb_row custom_padding=”30px|0px|30px|0px|true|false” _builder_version=”3.26.4″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.4″ text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_align=”justify” text_text_color=”#333″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#535b7c” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Nunito Sans|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#535b7c” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” module_alignment=”center”]From the Rhode Island Art Archive Project<\/a>\u00a0scroll\u00a0down to see the article<\/em><\/p>\n
The Trinity<\/em>, radiating some 20,000 feet of gold-plated wire out from a central crucified Christ figure, was designed by Richard Lippold, an abstract artist who collaborated with such modern architects as Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and Philip Johnson. Lippold was known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium.<\/p>\n
–Wired: Preserving the Installations of Richard Lippold, New York Times, 2009<\/a><\/p>\n
“Basically when I look at a problem, I look at its analogies in the world,” says Howard.<\/em>
“Lippold was an utter genius. The more we got into it, the more we realized it was like taking apart a piece of music by a jazz musician. Every step you took, you saw more of the structure and the liberties he took with it. We probably invented 100 tools in the process of doing this restoration.<\/em>“
–Traditional Building Magazine: On the restoration of The Church of St. Gregory the Great, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n
Every decision is learned from the last decision. An artist is not operating trying to satisfy people from the point of view of fear. Don\u2019t live your life by fear. Ninety percent of the things people are afraid of don’t even exist. And if they do, you don’t have control over them anyways.<\/em>
Live your life on your own terms, and every time you take a step use that step to take the next.<\/em>” -Howard
To view Howard Newman’s work and see the restoration projects of Newmans, Ltd. visit http:\/\/www.newmansltd.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n