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A Sand artist from Lowa in the US. He used colored sands for his work on jars.
Andrew Clemens, a self-trained society craftsman, didn't live long enough to appreciate distinction. His works were executed in sand and contained in little pharmacist bottles. In spite of their sensitive craftsmanship, the mid-nineteenth century public would have thought of them as interests, not amazing bits of compelling artwork. To demonstrate their genuineness and to engage the common participants of dime exhibition halls, these bits of sand workmanship were frequently crushed to pieces. "It's an inquisitively miserable story, similar to a scene in a Dickensian tale," composes Ken Johnson for The New York Times. Clemens created hundreds of sand art pieces in his lifetime, but only a few have survived. One of them came to auction with Skinner in the month of November in a timed online sale. Clemens was destined to German and Prussian workers who followed a dash for unheard of wealth to McGregor, Iowa. At five years of age, Clemens contracted encephalitis. In spite of the fact that he endure the expanding of his cerebrum, the craftsman lost his hearing and quite a bit of his discourse. That early ailment later carried him to the Iowa Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.
"One container of this sand, addressing the forty odd tones, gauging twenty pounds, we especially appreciated as showing the expertise and creativity of the youthful craftsman who has organized the different tones in an appealing, imaginative and capable way," the North Iowa Times wrote in 1875. "The youthful craftsman was only fourteen days drew in upon this one container." His jugs were carefully tedious to make, with some needing longer than a time of work. The most multifaceted jugs had concealing and were three- dimensional. As Clemens set up himself locally, he began taking commissions for the sand craftsmanship bottles. A few clients mentioned their own names written in expound content, while others favoured fragile bloom scenes. This art is rare, find this art work for auction before all others. Check the auction calendar of auctiondaily.
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