Clyde Harwick Brutalist Torch-Cut Metal Rose Sculptures on Quartz, Pair View Watchlist >
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Clyde Harwick Brutalist Torch-Cut Metal Rose Sculptures on Quartz, Pair
A pair of Clyde Harwick torch-cut metal rose sculptures, each rising on a stem of copper and steel from a natural quartz base. The blooms are formed from copper sheet curled into petals and finished in deep red, ringed by torch-flared brass leaves whose serrated, droplet-edged margins show the molten beading characteristic of the brutalist welded-metal idiom. The larger sculpture twists upward from a triangular quartz block ringed by a cluster of low leaves; the smaller carries a single bud above two splayed leaves on a honey-toned quartz nodule.
Harwick worked the welder's torch as a drawing tool, letting heat scorch and bloom the metal rather than concealing the process — a hallmark of the studio metalwork that flourished in the brutalist decorative movement of the 1960s and 70s. Each rose is heat-mounted to a raw, unpolished quartz specimen, pairing the deliberate roughness of cut steel and burned brass against crystalline stone. Both pieces are signed by Clyde Harwick.
CONDITION
Good with no remarkable damage. Expected surface oxidation and heat coloration throughout the metal, consistent with the torch-worked technique and not to be mistaken for damage. Both blooms and stems are secure to their quartz bases.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Larger: 8 1/2" H × 4 1/2" W × 4" D; 10 oz
- Smaller: 7 1/2" H × 3" W × 2 1/4" D; 11 oz
- Materials: Copper and steel; quartz bases
- Signed
- Campbell's Soup Can (4" H) Shown for Scale — Not Included
