Sharron Quasius

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Sharron Quasius (born 1948) is an American sculptor.

Quasius, from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, [1] is best known for her appropriations of classic paintings, which she transforms into large, soft bas reliefs made of stuffed canvas. [2] She was at one time married to the sculptor and restorer Don Howlett, [3] with whom she worked on the restoration of the Wisconsin Concrete Park. [4] Quasius is represented in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by a terracotta relief of 1982, Washington Crossing the Delaware; [5] another 1982 work, a reinterpretation of Watson and the Shark after John Singleton Copley, is held by the Vero Beach Museum of Art. [6]

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