Carol Gold (American, 1937–2022)

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and raised on a dairy farm in western Massachusetts, Carol Gold discovered her artistic passion at Cornell University, Boston University, and the Museum School in Boston during the late 1950s.

Though she had formal training in the late 1950s and early 1960s, she paused her practice while raising her children. It wasn’t until more than a decade later that she returned to sculpting and embraced bronze as her primary medium.

In the late 1970s, Gold trained in bronze casting at the College of Marin and built and ran her own foundry outside San Francisco for twelve years. This intimate knowledge of every step in the metal casting process profoundly shaped her artistic approach, allowing her to use wax as her principal creative material rather than clay.

Gold's work earned widespread recognition across the U.S. and Canada and garnered numerous awards from organizations such as the National Sculpture Society and the North American Sculpture Exhibition.

She was a National Sculptors’ Guild Fellow beginning in 1996, placing dozens of public sculptures in cities including Bakersfield, CA; Petoskey, MI; Whittier and Downey, CA; Pittsfield, MA; Paramount, CA; Bend, OR; and Loveland CO.