Jud Hartmann

6 Main Street, P.O. Box 4, Grafton, VT 05146, (802) 843-2018 79 Main Street, P.O. Box 753, Blue Hill, ME 04614, (207) 461-5307 hartmann@midmaine.com www.judhartmanngallery.com

Jud Hartmann is a bronze sculptor whose primary focus since 1983 has been to depict the series, The Woodland Tribes of the Northeast — the Iroquoians and the Algonkians. To date there are more than 75 bronzes in the series representing, for the first time in sculpture, an in-depth exploration of this subject. Hartmann is completely self-taught as a sculptor having begun as a carver in wood, stone and marble at the age of 22. In his mid-30s, shortly after he began working in bronze, his interest in the Woodland Tribes that he had been fascinated with in childhood was reawakened.

“It was clear to me that this was my purpose in being a sculptor. Unlike Western themes this was unexplored territory,” Hartmann says. “My inspiration comes from exhaustive research into primary source material from French, Dutch and English writers from the 16th to early 19th centuries as well as the oral histories and traditions of the Native people themselves. I am working primarily from written accounts rather than visuals, and I never use models.”

Hartmann’s work can be seen in his two galleries in Grafton, Vermont, and is on view during the summer in Blue Hill, Maine.

Jud Hartmann, He Who Is Without Equal, bronze, ed. 7, 9½”

Jud Hartmann, Guyasuta, bronze, ed. 20, 28”

The interior of Jud Hartmann’s Blue Hill, Maine, gallery.