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Len
Shartle is a talented sculptor from Rhode Island. He received his art training under the great master Jose DeCreeft at the
Arts Students League in New York, after graduating from Defiance College in Ohio. Upon completing a tour of duty in the military,
he settled in the lovely seaside town of historic Bristol, RI. There he has worked for over ten years and exhibited his work
in Providence at the Bert Gallery. He has been in selected group shows at the Newport Art Museum, Bristol Art Museum, and
the Toledo Museum.
The town of Bristol commissioned Len to sculpt a major monument celebrating the quincentennial
of Columbus and the discovery of America called Discovery. The bronze sculpture stands in the town's Independence
Park.
Over the past years, he has
developed a cast stone line of wall mounted sculpture reliefs. They are sealed against water and the surface is covered with
a copper-based substance that when treated, gives the figure the patina of weathered bronze. These solid wall mounted sculptured
reliefs will withstand water and wind when they are hung in outdoor gardens, on fences as well as when hung on indoor alcoves.
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