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GUSSOW, Roy  (1918- ) sculptor.
          Born Brooklyn, New York, 12 November 1918.
          At the suggestion of Art in America magazine Gussow
          was invited to take part in the creation of a bas-relief as a
          Christmas gift in 1965 and invented–along with six other
          modern American artsts–a new genre, medallic objects!

          G  A  L  V  A  N  O     R  E  L  I  E  F  S

1965 Water Over The Edge of A Pool Medal. . . . . . . . .

          A  R  C  H   I  V  E  S

AAA Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8 hours sound recordings, 2             
          tapes, 177-page transcription.

          B I O G R A P H I C A L  R E F E R E N C E S

BA  {1959} Who's Who In American Art:
          1959 [7ed:230], 1962 [8ed:249],
          1966 [9ed:185], 1970 [10ed:164],
          1973 [11ed:293], 1976 [12ed:224],
          1978 [13ed:278], 1980 [14ed:294-295],
          1982 [15ed:378], 1984 [16ed:370],
          1986 [17ed:405], 1989 [18ed:425],
          1990 [19ed:448], 1992 [20ed:471],
          1995 [21ed:487], 1997 [22ed:483],
          1999 [23ed:492], 2001 [24ed:480],
          2003 [25ed:488], 2005 [26ed:516-517],
          2007 [28ed:504].  
D20 {1966} Cummings: 1966 [1ed:140], 1971 [2ed:152-153], 1977 [3ed:       ], 1984             
          [4ed:       ], 1988 [5ed:       ], 1996 [6ed:303-304].
AA1 {1972} Archives of American Art, 236, p 64-65.
D33 {1986} Opitz, p 357.
AE1 {1988} Falk, 3:219.
AE2 {1990} Falk, Art Institute of Chicago, p 394.
BF2 {1999} Falk. Who Was Who in American Art, p 2:1406.
D3a {2006} Benezit. Dictionary of Artists, p 6:654.

          N U M I S M A T I C   R E F E R E N C E S

A10 {1965} Bryant (Edward}  Christmas For Connoisseurs, Art In America 53:6             
          (December-January 1965- 66) pp 38-44 [advertisement p 136].
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