Hand of Peace
Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano (October 15, 1890 - August 18, 1970) was a California-based Italian American sculptor, best known for his large-scale monuments, usually of granite. His modernist work often featured smoothly rounded animals and relatively simple shapes.
"Bene" Bufano, as his friends referred to him, though this soon morphed into the Americanized, "Bennie" in the hands of the press, first came to San Francisco to work on a sculpture for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Afterwards, he traveled extensively before returning to settle permanently in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Considered an outspoken radical at the time, Bufano chopped off his trigger finger and sent it to President Woodrow Wilson at the onset of World War I as a protest against the war. In addition to his work as a sculptor, he taught at the San Francisco Institute of Art (but was dismissed in 1923 because he was considered too modern), the University of California, Berkeley, and Oakland's California College of Arts and Crafts. Source: Wikipedia
This image was shot from an Olympus OM-10 SLR film camera, scanned by an HP Scanjet G4050 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Hand of Peace
Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano (October 15, 1890 - August 18, 1970) was a California-based Italian American sculptor, best known for his large-scale monuments, usually of granite. His modernist work often featured smoothly rounded animals and relatively simple shapes.
"Bene" Bufano, as his friends referred to him, though this soon morphed into the Americanized, "Bennie" in the hands of the press, first came to San Francisco to work on a sculpture for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Afterwards, he traveled extensively before returning to settle permanently in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Considered an outspoken radical at the time, Bufano chopped off his trigger finger and sent it to President Woodrow Wilson at the onset of World War I as a protest against the war. In addition to his work as a sculptor, he taught at the San Francisco Institute of Art (but was dismissed in 1923 because he was considered too modern), the University of California, Berkeley, and Oakland's California College of Arts and Crafts. Source: Wikipedia
This image was shot from an Olympus OM-10 SLR film camera, scanned by an HP Scanjet G4050 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.