Love Forever

The new photo in the blog opening is a bronze by Nina Winkle made before her death to be placed as a memorial to her husband after their deaths. This sculpture is in the Adirondacks.

The Adirondacks has attracted artists for many decades to the region. As much as I am inspired by the landscape of the Adirondack Mountains, I am also inspired and intrigued by the work of these artists.

If you would like to see more of Nina Winkle's work, there are many of her pieces at Plattsburgh State College, in Plattsburgh New York. I am including some information below from the Plattsburgh State Colleg website.


The artist was born in Germany in 1905 and died in 1990. Nina was in Paris when it fell to the Nazis and fled to the United States with her husband in 1942, living first in New York City. Unable to speak English in the beginning, she worked as a cleaning woman in the Clay Club, where she later produced her earliest terra cotta pieces in this country. She was the first woman in N.Y.C. to get a welder's liscense, and in 1959 she moved from working in clay to creating welded copper sculptures. Only about five feet tall, Nina eventually had to switch to an acetylene torch because she lacked the strength to handle the heavier welding equipment. The artist has works and commissions in many cities in this country and in Europe, and has shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in N.Y.C. Her works reflect her life experiences . . . World War II . . . her interest in the Bible and in mythology . . . her sense of humor.

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