Biography

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 654-656. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

Sculptor.

Mother of son, Myron "Mike" Nevelson who is also a sculptor and artist in Fairfield, Connecticut.

She was awarded the 1985 American National Medal of the Arts for her services as a sculptress and artist by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.

In April 2000, the United States Postage Service issued a book of postage stamps featuring five of her designs of the following: Silent Music I, Royal Tide I, Black Chord, Nightsphere-Light, and Dawn's Wedding Chapel I to celebrate the artist's one hundredth birthday.

On her art: My work is delicate; it may look strong, but it is delicate. True strength is delicate. My whole life is in it.

On motherhood: People should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it. That struggle blinds you. That's the price, the great price.

On truth: Character is the architecture of the being.

On art: Some of us come on earth seeing -- some of us come on earth seeing color.