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Toward the end of his life, Gib Singleton—one of the great Western and biblical bronze sculptors of the 20th and 21st centuries—was bound to a wheelchair and an oxygen machine.
In his youth and throughout his career, he traveled the world, studied art in Florence, Italy, and even worked in the Vatican’s art workshop. He was a prolific artist, producing beautiful bronze sculptures and in the process creating a new style of art that he called “emotional realism.”
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It was during his final years that he finally completed one of his lifelong dreams: making a series of sculptures of the Stations of the Cross.
“I think on some level every sculptor has a dream of doing the Stations of the Cross,” he said. “It’s probably the most spiritual subject any artist can deal with. Everything important in the human story is right there—life, death, courage, compassion, love, betrayal, redemption.”
Out of his garage studio in New Mexico emerged a series of 15 sculptures that lead you through the Via Dolorosa, the journey Jesus took to the cross. For centuries Christians have meditated on the final moments of Jesus’ life on Earth—from his unjust judgment to being mocked by the Roman soldiers, the crucifixion, and the burial. It is an emotional journey that brings the story of the passion to life in a unique way.
Singleton made several editions of the Stations of the Cross, hoping his sculptures would be installed in cities around the globe. Today, his work can be admired in museums and sacred spaces from Rome to Nebraska. One of these editions has previously been on display at the Museum of the Bible, in Washington, D.C. This year we feature it as a unique virtual experience and part of the museum’s series of exhibitions in celebration of Easter.
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