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Published on: 6/18/2009
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Nationally recognized Aberdeen sculptor Ben Victor compared to Rodin
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"Ben has done some fairly major commissioned work at this very early point in his career, so it's not an unrealistic parallel," she says.
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"Victor joined the ranks of Michelangelo, Bernini, Daniel Chester French and Maya Lin by receiving his first large commission at only 23 years old," she wrote.
At age 26, Victor became the youngest artist to have a sculpture included in the nation's foremost collection of figurative sculpture, the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.
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Raised in Bakersfield, Calif., Victor moved to Ellendale, N.D., to attend Trinity Bible College and play college basketball there with a few other buddies from Bakersfield.
"The school didn't offer art classes, but I kept drawing and painting on my own," Victor said by telephone from his Aberdeen studio.
It was his dad who helped him pursue his artistic passion.
"The summer after my first year, I was married with a child on the way," he says.
"I called my dad, and he said to just do what I loved.
I enrolled in art at Northern in Aberdeen."
He soon discovered that sculpture came easily, so he took it every semester until his 2004 graduation.
Victor was helped through school by a scholarship from the National Sculpture Society, with support from his teachers Joel and Ruth McKinney.
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