Richard Gray Gallery is pleased to announce the acquisition of Magdalena Abakanowicz’s The Group of Ten by Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. The commissioned artwork consists of ten figures, cast in bronze and slightly smaller than life size--a rare scale in the artist’s body of work. The Group of Ten continues the artist’s creation of anonymous, strong, defiant figures, which confront viewers without apology or explanation. Abakanowicz’s use of found burlap cloth in her first sculptures remains present as a shadow of texture on the rich, heavy bronze, a material rendering the figures as powerful forces of universal human kind.