Tony Angell

born Los Angeles, California, 1940

BiographyTony Angell first came to the Northwest to attend the University of Washington. Here he became enraptured with the environments and wildlife of the region which became the primary subjects of his work. After teaching high school and junior college courses he became State Supervisor of Environmental Education. He began pursuing a career as a professional sculptor in the late 1960s with his first solo show at Richard White Gallery, Seattle in 1972. He has exhibited extensively both regionally and nationally and also has completed a number of public art commissions for Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, the City of Redmond, and the public libraries of Bainbridge and Lopez Island, among others. His sculptural work is included in the collections of the Museum of Northwest Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and The Frye Art Museum. His paintings are in the collection of Cornell University and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London England. He has won a number of awards including the 2016 Northwest Luminary for sculpture from the Museum of Northwest Art and the Chilmark Award from the National Sculpture Society.

For additional information and images visit the artist's website:
http://www.tonyangell.net/
[accessed Nov. 2017]

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