Antoinette Prien Schultze

In the artist’s own words: “I am a self-taught sculptor with a formal background in music. I have evolved from a skilled and accomplished figurative artist (completing several large-scale public commissions in bronze and stone) to a recognized abstract artist.

Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park in Skokie Illinois says ‘Antoinette’s sculptures are visually beautiful and provocative.’ My thirteen foot granite sculpture ‘Syllogism’ is on exhibit at the Meadowlark Botanical gardens in Vienna, Virginia. In 2010 and 2012, I won the Brancusi Award from The Courthouse Museum in Portsmouth, VA. My eleven foot granite, marble and glass sculpture, ‘Aurora’ is on loan to The Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota,FL. I have exhibited my granite sculptures at the prestigious Navy Pier Show in Chicago, IL, The Chesterwood Museum, Stockbridge, MA, ARTINPLACE, Charlottesville, VA, Polk Art Museum, Lakeland, FL, just to name a few.

My large stone sculptures are in several permanent collections, such as The Pyramid Hill Museum and Sculpture Park in Hamilton, Ohio, The Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Ogunquit, Maine, and The University of West Alabama, in Livingston, AL. I have exhibited with SculptureNow in the Berkshires of MA for ten years. I had two large sculptures on exhibit at the Emerson Umbrella Arts Institute in Concord, MA and one at the New Hampshire Institute of Art where I taught for fourteen years. My smaller works have been shown at galleries and universities throughout the country. The Cancer Research Center in Bonita Springs, Florida commissioned a stone and glass sculpture and some of my smaller pieces are in corporate collections such as Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati,Ohio.

I live on our dairy farm in Eliot, Maine where I have been creating sculptures for forty-six years. I won my first large commission in 1984 from a school in Maine, and in 1987 was commissioned to create ‘The Mill Girl,’ a ten foot bronze for Manchester, NH. My studio is located directly behind my house where I always have at least three sculptures in various degrees of completion. Recent commissions: a large black granite monument I installed in Portland, ME; Granite Wave for The York Hospital, York ME; “Granite Mother,” an 11 foot granite and glass sculpture for 0VP Corp. North Conway, NH. Last year I was a finalist for the Civil Rights Monument, Boston, MA. At this time I have four large stone and glass sculptures on exhibit at the Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME. This year, I will be exhibiting my work at the Jule Smith Museum at Auburn University, AL . This August I spoke about my art at The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit ME. My sculptures are often called monumental and exquisite, and they have been compared to Noguchi’s sculpture for their purity of form. “

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Time, Space, Wisdom

Maine cedar, glass
6’6” x 3’5” x 3’3”
$12,800

Mirror Image

Granite, glass, copper
14” x 13” x 2”
$5,500

Silk

Slate, glass, ebony, silk
26” x 14” x 3”
$6,000

Tree Orchids

Walnut, glass, marble
30” x 16” x 15”
$6,000

Queen Mother

Cedar, glass
6’ x 2’ x 2’6”
$14,000

Serving Us All

Cedar, glass
58” x 28” x 19”
$9,500

Exposure

Cedar, glass, bronze
56” x 18” x 9”
$14,000

Green Leaves of Spring

Belgian black marble, glass, white marble
16” x 13” x 8”
$4,500

Dressed Torso

Granite, glass, steel
20” x 10” x 10”
$7,000

One Eyed Voyager

Cedar, glass
58” x 28” x 19”
$8,600