Wheelbarrow, 1991
Painted Steel, 55" x 72" x 20"
Dina Wind was born in Haifa, Israel in 1938 and died in 2014. She received a B.A. from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Certificate of Art Appreciation in 1972 from the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. She continued her studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she completed an M.A. in 1974. She exhibited her sculptures throughout the mid-Atlantic region, including the Allentown Art Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, and the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh. Wind created her welded-steel sculptures, which she likened to three-dimensional still-life paintings, by using a TIG welding machine to combine discarded farm implements and other metal scraps into flowing, organic compositions tinged with humor.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. edited to reflect the artist’s passing