Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

Fritz Buehner

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Lubec, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005

At MacDowell, Fritz Buehner focused on a series of carved sculptures titled "Arroyo," and produced drawings using wood stains. He also worked on an outdoor site project that involved carving miniature abstract sculptures and buildings from a pile of wood logs. A show of his carvings and photographs was held at Whitebox Annex in New York in 2003.

Studios

Heinz

Fritz Buehner worked in the Heinz studio.

The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…

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