{"id":3936,"date":"2012-09-21T17:19:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T22:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2017-12-08T23:04:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T04:04:16","slug":"legendary-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=3936","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"size-full wp-image-3937\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #676c6c;\" title=\"Bronze statue at Libba Cotton Grove, &lt;a href=\" alt=\"\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lcottonstatue.jpg\" alt=\"Bronze statue at Libba Cotton Grove, sculpted by Sharon BuMann\" width=\"504\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lcottonstatue.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lcottonstatue-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bronze statue at Libba Cotton Grove, sculpted by Sharon BuMannIt&#8217;s hard to understand the precision and detail that goes into the work of Sharon BuMann, the\u00a0sculptor best known for her work at the NYS Fair (with butter) and the Jerry Rescue monument in Clinton Square.<\/p>\n<p>Her latest work, a bronze of\u00a0famous folk singer Libba Cotten, will be formally dedicated in a few weeks.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a piece written by columnist Sean Kirst describing Cotten&#8217;s musical influence.<\/p>\n<p>BuMann was one of the first artists we featured on this site. We visited her studio about 10 years ago to watch her work. She is a\u00a0great artistic ambassabor for our region and\u00a0certainly a living legend.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3938\" style=\"width: 391px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3938\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3938\" title=\"Sharon BuMann at her Central Square Studio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sbumann-studio3.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon BuMann at her Central Square Studio (file photo)\" width=\"381\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sbumann-studio3.jpg 381w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sbumann-studio3-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon BuMann at her Central Square Studio (file photo)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronze statue at Libba Cotton Grove, sculpted by Sharon BuMannIt&#8217;s hard to understand the precision and detail that goes into the work of Sharon BuMann, the\u00a0sculptor best known for her work at the NYS Fair (with butter) and the Jerry Rescue monument in Clinton Square. Her latest work, a bronze of\u00a0famous folk singer Libba Cotten, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[1786,5003,57,2340,4999,1434,42,1834,1433,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23840,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/23840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}