CABOT LYFORD:
WAR, WHALES, WHIMSY, WINGS,
WOMEN AND WORKINGS

Cabot Lyford direct carving granite at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1947. As a summer student at Skowhegan, Lyford direct carved his first granite sculpture — Torso. — Cabot Lyford direct carving granite at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1947. As a summer student at Skowhegan, Lyford direct carved his first granite sculpture — *Torso*.

Cabot Lyford is best known as a sculptor with works at the Colby College Art Museum, Farnsworth Art Museum, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Portland Museum of Art, Portland International Jetport, Regency Hotel and Spa in Portland, Maine Audubon in Falmouth, Vivian E. Hussey Primary School in Berwick, all in Maine; the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford and at Ocean Spray Cranberries in Plymouth, all in Massachusetts; Christ Episcopal Church and the Phillips Exeter Academy Library in Exeter, New Hampshire and Four Tree Island, Prescott Park, Great Bay Community College and the USS Albacore Museum, all in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas and the Hunter Museum of American Art in Tennessee. Lyford direct carved various types of stone — marble, slate, beach stone and granite — as well as American hardwoods. Cabot Lyford’s preferred medium was black granite. Lyford’s work ranges from sensuous nudes, animated animals and whimsical political commentary to abstract assemblages of shapes or puzzles. Cabot Lyford wrote and illustrated stories for children, scripts for television and one play.