Best known for his monumental Athena Parthenos, the largest indoor statute in the western world, LeQuire began his artistic career at the age of eleven,
when he first began to make objects in tin and copper. By the end of his high school years, he was concentrating principally on sculpture, but at
Vanderbilt University he studied English Literature and Art History, rather than studio art. Soon however, frustrated with the arid quality of contemporary
abstraction he decided to study with Milton Hebald, an American sculptor living in Italy. Here he learned the disciplines of figurative sculpture and
the practical elements of Italian bronze casting.
After obtaining a Master of Fine Arts degree at UNC Greensboro and continued study with Peter Agostini, he competed for and won the
commission to recreate the lost Athena Parthenos for the Parthenon in Nashville. It took 8 years to complete and caused Alan to broaden
his knowledge of materials and to develop a firm grasp of classical mythology. He has recently completed an amazing sculpture called
Musica, which graces the portal to Nashville’s famed Music Row. With its nine colossal dancing figures, or muses, it is the largest
bronze figure group in America.
We knew the minute we found Alan that our search was over. Monumental or miniature, his sculpture is on the human
scale; made by and intended for human beings.
