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Robert Graham | |||
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1938 in Mexico City, Mexico Lives and works in Venice, CA |
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| Source Figure, 1990 | ||||
| bronze,
edition 7/9 106 inches high x 24 inches diameter Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the R. C. Kemper Charitable Trust and Foundation 1999.21 |
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| Mexican-born Robert Graham
is one of the country’s most well-known realist sculptors. He is known
for his sculptures of female nudes and his many public commissions which
include Kansas City’s Charlie “Bird” Parker Memorial,
the Duke Ellington Monument in New York City, and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Memorial in Washington, D.C. Source Figure suggests a caryatid of ancient classical Greek sculpture—a beautiful sculpted female form used as a supporting column on the front of Greek temples, holding up the portico, or porch, roof. Here the nude female form, a stellar example of classicism in contemporary sculpture, stands atop a column whose surface is textured with hundreds of small blobs of bronze, creating an interesting textural juxtaposition with the smoothness of the female form. Graham’s work is in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, and many others. |
