Bob's
Family -Aunt Anita Weschler
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Sculptor and Artist
Anita Weschler 1903 - 2000
| her
parents
of New York City
and Erwinna, PA
Anita Weschler in
her La Guardia Place Studio 1964-76

Anita Weschler at Long Hill
1978
Anita Weschler with
American Woman War Worker - 1942
Anita Weschler with
Bonds of Affection -1945
[photo in her studio in the barn at Long Hill]
Anita Weschler with
Hinterland
Anita
Weschler's Credo
"The core of life is both profound and simple.
It is the scope of an artist's emotional life
which is recorded for the enrichment of the observer."
A few of Anita Weschler's "children"
terra cotta relief US Post
Office, Elkin, NC 1939
Eurydice
Koestler Collection
Victory Ball 1951
cast stone
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, NYC
The Mediators
Martial Music - Air Raid
The Road
cast stone colored horizon blue
Art Students Leaque Permanent Collection NYC
In the Course of Human Events - 1942
painted plaster relief 63"x48"x12"
A Time to Be
Born
aluminum
Pinsonneault Collection
A Time to Embrae
primavera wood
The Norfolk Museum Collection
A Time to Die
1945
Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art
A Time to Plant
- cast aluminum -
Anita kept this sculpture on the well at Long Hill
except when it was visiting at my house.
The Boy Scout
portrait of Bob Koestler
Koestler Collection
Hail and Farewell
My Caprice

Summer Day
Koestler Collection
The Humanist - photo by Soichi
Sunami
fiberglass
Collection of Council for Secular Humanism in Buffalo, NY
donation by Warren A Smith
The Campus Today - 1963
terra cotta relief
Anita innovated the use of
plastic resins and synthetic glazes, using vivid colors and
amorphous forms on oblong and round wooden panels.
two of Anita Weschler's rondos
Pinsonneault Collection
a panel
Pinsonneault Collection
Anita Weschler Oct 1970

Anita and Herbert in Brazilia 1972
photo by John Mayer
View from Anita's apartment
Obit
06 December 2009
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