Exhibitions
“Fred Lancôme is seen in his sculptures, mostly carved from beautifully grained and carefully worked exotic woods, to use the human body, according to the historical traditions of his art, as the vehicle for his statements… he is seen primarily concerned with human relationships and he shows considerable ingenuity for expressing in physical terms the spiritual relationships of two people.”
—”One Man Shows,” Springfield (Mass.} Sunday Republican, 21 March 1965
Selected Exhibitions
Salon d’Automne, Paris, France
Museo d’Arte, Milan, Italy
Selected Artists Galleries, 655 Madison Avenue, New York
Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Silvermine (Zell sculpture award), Silvermine, CT
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Welles Gallery, Lenox, MA
Boston Symphony Glasshouse, Tanglewood, Lenox, MA
Earlham College, Richmond, IN
St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD
“The Lancôme woodworkings are a far cry from today’s mania for jagged edges… They have a fluidity and a grace that the innovators seldom attain.”
—”Sculpture of a Generation Ago,” Albany Times-Union, ca. April 1965.
Works In Collections
John’s College, Annapolis, MD
Earlham College, Richmond, IN
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Over ninety private collectors
“He expresses feeling with the help of the human figure, preferring nudes because they express, above all, a sense of human wholeness. His figures are intense, deceptively simple, diffused.”
—Frederic Kelly, “How do you Compare a Steak to a Sculpture,” The New Haven Register, Sunday Pictorial, 11 July 1965.