Sculptures

Millbrook Country House is very proud to be able to include in its gardens the sculptures of two talented local artists with international followings. Their pieces are placed throughout our grounds and provide a beautiful modernist counterpoint to the European antiques and art inside the house.

Tim Mark grew up in Lakeville, Connecticut, attended The Hotchkiss School, and while in his twenties moved to Carrara, site of Italy’s most famous marble quarries, to study sculpting. His figures are smooth and organic and range in size from relatively small works that nestle within garden plantings and along walls and paths (or, in fact, are easily displayed indoors) to tall, sleek forms that stand comfortably among our trees. Tim spends about half of each year in this area, the other half in his newly adopted home of New Zealand. He has participated in teaching symposia and carving exhibitions from Australia to Norway, where one of his scuptures adorns a public fountain in the town of Os. In addition to his marble pieces, Tim works in limestone and, most recently, such metals as bronze and aluminum. His work is collected widely, and he is currrently planning a solo exhibition in The Netherlands.

Anthony Krauss, a resident of Woodstock, New York, has been working for years in a highly personal style to create large installations combining woods, steel, and tinted Plexiglas. His innovative use of geometric forms, especially diagonal elements, results in exciting kinetic illusions, and his reflective surfaces mirror the changing seasons and ambient movement. (Early morning and sunset in our garden can be a veritable light show.) In 2001 Anthony received the Lorenzo de’ Medici prize at Florence’s international biennial show of contemporary art, only one of many accolades he has received throughout his career. He is a great believer in bringing young people into intimate contact with sculpture, has worked with elementary school children on special outdoors projects, taught at colleges and universities worldwide, and is collected by numerous individuals, corporations, and museums, from New York to India and Japan.