Colleoni, Bartolomeo

(1919 – 1983) was a professor of sculpture at Cornell and taught sculpture at New York University, and at Hofstra University. His gently humorous work was marked by angular and hollowly curvilinear pieces marked with holes welded together from junk. He worked with slightly used chromium-plated steel and automobile bumpers artfully contrived so that viewers were sometimes unaware that they were looking at a bumper. One of his best-know pieces is ”Colleoni II,” a bumper version of Verrocchio’s monumental equestrian statue. It was bought by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Foundation and is part of the permanent exhibit at the Empire State Plaza in Albany.