This is a large sculpture of The Singing Chef by Jack Dowd, a Sarasota-based artistwho creates paintings and sculptures of artists, celebrities, and everyday people with avery human-like feel to them, and his sculpture of The Singing Chef has a light, playfultouch to it. It was made from gypsum cement in 2009 and comes on a large woodenbase.Born in New York in 1938, Jack was inspired by his father and began sketching anddrawing at an early age. He started sculpting in the ’70s, when he lived in Plainfield,Vermont. He began with a chainsaw and blocks of wood, then started working in claybecause it was more flexible: he used wire mesh to build a form, then molded the clayaround it and made a model, turned that into a rubber mold, and cast bronze or gypsumcement figures from the mold, and his sculptures combine avant-garde and folk arttogether.The artist has a private studio called Moon River in Sarasota and has had many solosolo exhibitions sponsored by museums and art centers across the country, includingthe Florida State Museum of Fine Art, Jacksonville’s Museum of Modern Art, and theRingling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, which drew 40,000 visitors and was thebest attended opening in the museum’s history.The figure is signed by chefs from the Ritz Carlton, Cafe L’Europe, and otherrestaurants in Sarasota. The sculpture is attached to the base, and the two togetherstand about 69 inches tall. The chef is 45 in. tall x 22 1/2 in. wide, and the basemeasures 24 in. high x 22 in. wide x 22 in. deep. The sculpture is a perfect decorationfor people who love to cook and entertain, or for someone who owns a culinarybusiness.Size: 68 1/2 x 23 x 22 in.