Sculptor
Nancy Schön is a Boston-based sculptor known for her warm, evocative representations of human figures and for commissioned pieces that reflect imaginative sculptural problem-solving. She has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad, earning many honors.
A turning point in her career came in 1980 when she discovered that she could use her sculpture as a fund-raising tool to encourage and recognize contributions to a wide variety of nonprofit institutions, such as universities, nursing homes, and museums.
The recipient of many commissions, both public and private, Ms. Schön delights in working with each of her clients to invent and render distinctive sculptural solutions to unique problems.
Her most famous sculpture, Make Way for Ducklings, is displayed in the Boston Public Garden and illustrates the story of the same name by Robert McCloskey. In 1991, then First Lady Barbara Bush gave a copy of the sculpture to Raisa Gorbachev "on behalf of the children of the United States to the children of the Soviet Union" as part of the START disarmament treaty ceremonies in Moscow. This second sculpture is now displayed in Moscow's Novodevichy Park, a site chosen by Mrs. Gorbachev.
