biography of Kahlil George GIBRAN (1922-2008)

Birth place: Boston

Addresses: Boston

Profession: Sculptor

Studied: Boston Mus. School, 1940-43, painting with Karl Zerbe.

Exhibited: WMAA Ann., 1956; Art USA, 1958; Art Festival, Boston, 1964; Int., Trieste, Italy, 1966; New England Artists, Provincetown AA & Cyclorama, Boston, 1971. Awards: George Wiedner Medal, PAFA, 1958; John S. Guggenheim fellowship, 1959-60 & 1960-61; NIAL Award & fellowship, 1961.

Member: NSS; New England Sculpture Soc.; Cambridge AA(vice-pres., 1968-); Provincetown AA

Work: Chrysler Collection, Virginia Mus., Norfolk; PAFA; Cheekwood Art Ctr, Nashville, TN; Elmira College, NY. Commissions: bronze wall mural, Forsythe Dental, Boston, 1971.

Comments: Preferred medium: steel. Publications: author, Sculpture in Process," Nat. Sculpture Review, 1970; author, Sculpture Kahlil Gibran, 1972.

Sources: WW73; Gregory MacDonald, "Kahlil Gibran a Boston Sculptor," Boston Globe Magazine (1967); Nathan Hale, Welded Sculpture (Watson-Guptil, 1968); Donald Irving, Sculpture Material and Process (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970)."