Guidebook for Winter Park

Albin Polasek (1879 – 1965) is her­alded as one of America’s fore­most sculp­tors of the twen­ti­eth cen­tury. Cel­e­brated in his own life­time, Polasek cre­ated fig­u­ra­tive works based upon the true struc­ture of nature. His goal was to show the essen­tial unity of form and the beauty of “move­ment,” the flow of one form into another. He felt that move­ment made the dif­fer­ence between a work exud­ing life and some­thing inan­i­mate. Polasek’s abil­ity to cap­ture the spirit of his sub­ject pro­vided inspi­ra­tion to suc­ces­sors such as Rich­mond Barthe, Sylvia Shaw Jud­son and Ruth Sherwood