Mort Golub is former collector, turned artist. His work, crafted from a variety of found objects, is inspired by ancient ‘Animal Style Art of the Steppes’ and Himalayan Masks. Mort began making sculptures in 1993.

The marvelous sculptures Mort fashions are mostly in the form of human faces, though some are more fully figurative. Working without the impediment of formal art training, he seems to have accessed a psychic landscape populated with indigenous nature spirits, Buddhist sub deities, and animal totems.

His art emanates a sense of quiet inner life, expressed with unusual sensitivity and a rare ability to discern compelling forms in common objects. While he describes how collecting transformation masks of the Himalayas had, in fact, transformed him, his sources of inspiration extend far beyond the Tibetan Plateau to Siberia, Japan, Indonesia, Alaska, Africa, the Americas, Oceania, and the artwork of Paleolithic man found in the caves of Eurasia.

Essay excerpt from an article “Mort Golub: From Mahakala to Outsider Art, By Thomas Murray” in the Tribal Art Magazine,
Tribal 111, Spring 2024

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#02 - 10 x 6 ¼ x 2 ½ inches
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#03 - 4 x 2 7/8 x ½ inches
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#13 - 6 ½ x 6 x 3 ¼ inches
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#16 - 8 x 6 ½ x 3 ½ inches
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#18 - 11 ¾ x 7 ½ x 7 ¼ inches
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#20 - 11 x 7 x 6 inches
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#21 - 5 ½ x 3 3/8 x 1 inches
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#22 - 9 ½ x 9 ½ x 3 ½ inches
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#23 - 11 ½ x 8 ¾ x 2 ½ inches
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#24 - 9.75 x 9 x 3.5 inches
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#25 - 7 ¾ x 6 ½ x 2 inches
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#26 - 14 x 5 ¼ x 4 inches
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#27 - 12 ¼ x 6 x 4 inches
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#28 - 11 ¾ x 5 ½ x 4 ¼ inches
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#29 - 8 x 9 x 2 ½ inches
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#30 - 14 ½ x 9 7/8 x 4 ½ inches
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#31 - 6 5/8 x 5 ½ x 2 inches
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#32 - 9 ¾ x 5 7/8 x 3 ¼ inches
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#33 - 10 x 11 x 4 ½ inches
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#34 - 9 ½ x 13 ½ x 2 ¾ inches
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#35 - 9 ¾ x 6 ¾ x 3 inches
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