Discipline: Visual Art

Sydney Hamburger

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1986
Sydney Hamburger is a sculptor, painter, teacher, curator, and student of anthropology, philosophy, and religion. She earned a bachelor's and master's degree, with emphasis in sculpture, from Towson State University, Baltimore. She also studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Oxford University, England; and the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as Hood College, Frederick, Maryland. Her work is included in the collections of the Washington County Museum of Fine Art, Hagerstown, MD; The Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; The Talbot Bank, Easton, MD; Grace Hartigan, New York/Baltimore; Pepita Seth, Delhi/London; and Amalie R. Rothschild, New York, NY and Rome; among others. Hamburger was awarded an honorary Ph.D. from Hood College, Frederick, MD in 1993.

Studios

Mixter

Sydney Hamburger worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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