Philip Grausman Explained

Philip Grausman (born July 16, 1935) is an American sculptor, known for his portrait works.

Grausman's work is in the collection of over 30 museums, including the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.

Life and career

Grausman's early work focused on natural forms representing buds and seeds, before exploring the form of the human head. His artistic style is reductivist, emphasizing streamlined contours and reduced detail, using industrial materials such as fiberglass and metals to form the portraits.[1] [2]

Grausman has received numerous awards, including the Rome Prize in Sculpture, a Ford Foundation Purchase Award, and grants from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation among others.

In 1959, Grausman studied with Jose de Creeft at the Art Students League in New York City and earned a MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Grausman has participated in over eighty solo and group exhibitions, at venues which include the National Academy of Design, New York City; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, Connecticut; Hollycroft Foundation, The Sculpture Mile, Madison, Connecticut; Pier Walk 2000, Navy Pier, Chicago; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; and the American Academy in Rome, Italy. He has also contributed to the Art in Embassies Program through the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. His work is included in various private, museum, and university collections, such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Louis B. Mayer Foundation, Los Angeles; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy. Grausman is also known for his studies of birds.

Education

Exhibitions

Awards

Collections (Partial list)

Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland

Akron Art Museum, Ohio

American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Cristi

Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Massachusetts

Brooklyn Museum, New York

Columbus Art Museum, Ohio

Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford, Connecticut

Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York

Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts

The Fields Sculpture Park, Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, New York

Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey

Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio

Hebrew Union College Biblical and Archaeological School, Jerusalem, Israel

Jewish Museum, New York

Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Louis B. Mayer Foundation, Los Angeles, California

Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York

Museum of Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

National Academy of Design, New York

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Neuberger Museum, S.U.N.Y. at Purchase New York

Newark Museum, New Jersey

Pennsylvania State University

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine

Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

Union College, Schenectady, New York

University of Connecticut, Storrs

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

University of New Hampshire, Durham

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Teaching

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Naves . Mario . Head Cases . July 1, 2023 . OBSERVER.
  2. Web site: Glueck . Grace . Art Guide . July 1, 2023 . New York Times.