{"id":1015,"date":"2024-12-31T13:49:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T13:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jvh.42web.io\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2025-03-01T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T17:55:00","slug":"eagle-winged-power-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"Eagle Winged Power, 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Private owner<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dallas, TX<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">During more than 25 years of artist life, sculptor John Vassar House more times approached the eagle winged forms with different results. In only one instance this was a figurative form while all the other versions maintained the common open winged form while differing for the orientation and base. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d05cb3ef wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"293\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1980-Eagle-Winged-Power-JVH1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1980-Eagle-Winged-Power-JVH1-1.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1980-Eagle-Winged-Power-JVH1-1-158x300.jpg 158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"729\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/John-Vassar-House-with-Eagle-wax-model-before-casting-1-729x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1018\" style=\"width:394px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/John-Vassar-House-with-Eagle-wax-model-before-casting-1-729x1024.jpg 729w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/John-Vassar-House-with-Eagle-wax-model-before-casting-1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/John-Vassar-House-with-Eagle-wax-model-before-casting-1-768x1078.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/John-Vassar-House-with-Eagle-wax-model-before-casting-1-1094x1536.jpg 1094w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/John-Vassar-House-with-Eagle-wax-model-before-casting-1-1459x2048.jpg 1459w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/John-Vassar-House-with-Eagle-wax-model-before-casting-1.jpg 1562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This is the last casting made by sculptor John Vassar House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The finished bronze sculpture (on the left) is standing alongside the full-size wax model (on the right) before proceeding with lost wax casting. This is an example of direct wax casting rather than hollow lost wax. The model is always hollow and is temporarily supported by wood and metal struts to bear the hot summer heat of Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">You may appreciate that the direct wax represents a higher risk of failure rather than a lost (hollow) wax casting. In the end the bronze sculpture came out perfectly, as John Vassar House was a master of hollow wax thicknesses through the artwork pieces. The risk of the hollow wax bronze pour in fact, is that the metal cools off upon a narrow passage thus preventing the flow to fill all (wax) empty gaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private owner Dallas, TX During more than 25 years of artist life, sculptor John Vassar House more times approached the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,63,73,103,116,93,67,118,58,111,147,109,143,121],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abstract","category-abstract-forms","category-bronze","category-direct-wax","category-freestanding-on-base","category-large-size-sculptures","category-nature-inspired","category-part-of-complex-architectural","category-private-acquisition","category-representational","category-rome-italy","category-sculpture-in-the-round-3d","category-us","category-vertical","tag-wedges-1975-1980"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}