Check the signature...

The bottom of the sculptures may have bits of writing and remains of paper labels or even those crazy tape lable maker things from the 1960s...

 sometimes there is no name at all, just some initials, JEM or JM welded into the wood or metal.

Here's some ink signatures. He would simply write with a marker or pen, or sometimes do pen-and-ink calligraphy.

sometimes there's only a title: "New City" was a popular series he did, and he did a series of "Icarus" figures and women-with-bird series.  There is usually a date. In the 1950s, he would just put the last digit ('7" means 1957.) starting with 1960 he put the last two digits.

Do you have some Marzuki art?

It might have turned up at a resale store, an estate sale, an antique mall, or your parent's garage...a super cool piece of sculpture...maybe metal, maybe wood, maybe mixed media, or painted ceramic, signed somewhere on the wood base or the metal itself with something that looks like "Marzuki" (sometimes James, Jim or J)...often written in ink in a calligraphy style, or with the initials "JM" "JEM" burned into the wood or metal.......If so, you probably have a piece of artwork by my dad, Jim Marzuki, who was active in the Chicago area from the mid 1950s through the late 1970s. His work is very "mid-century modern"; a bit brutalist, a bit pop art (in a good way.) If you do have a piece of his, I would love to hear from you.  (marzuki@earthlink.net). I'll be posting more info (and better pix) once I get the hang of this.