Circa 1992, bulbous vasiform carved burl structure, centering a flame-form shaft in rosewood, ink signed by the artist to underside. Together with an octagonal laminated wood display pedestal.

Sculpture 44 1/2 x 19 x 15 1/2 in.; pedestal 22 x 20 x 20 in.

Private Collection, Georgia

Georgia-based sculptor and digital artist, Richard Scott Hill, graduated with honors from the University of Georgia with a Master of Fine Arts degree. As a graduate student, his work was selected by John Canaday, art critic for The New York Times, to represent contemporary American art in a traveling exhibition sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. Hill served as the head of the Drawing Department at the Atlanta College of Art for 14 years, achieving tenure in 1981. He taught at West Georgia College, where he was invited to be the Artist-in-Residence in 1992.

Perhaps his most notable artistic achievement is the magnificent, spiraling 80- foot-high tower known as "The Kessler Campanile," created for the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Village in the Georgia Tech Plaza at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and it remains a landmark for the City of Atlanta and the State of Georgia today. Mr. Hill's artwork has been included in many national and internationally recognized exhibitions and is part of numerous corporate and museum collections, including the High Museum of Art, the Augusta Museum of Art, the Georgia Council for the Arts, the Atlanta Civic Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Olinda, Recife, Brazil, and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia.

Interior shaft glue mounted with some looseness; insect and fungi stresses as made.