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.
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. Exhibitions 2023 - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT 2022 - Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT (Solo show) 2008 - Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York 2006 - Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York 2005 - Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, New York 2001 - Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2001 - Aquinas College; Drawing exhibition, Grand Rapids, Michigan 1998 - Ice Gallery, New York 1997 - Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut 1993 - Babcock Galleries, New York 1988 - Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut 1988 - Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas 1987 - Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York 1983 - Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York 1981 - Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut 1979 - Borgenicht Gallery, New York 1978 - Image Gallery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts 1978 - Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut 1977 - Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 1977 - University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 1976 - University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 1975 - Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 1974 - Borgenicht Gallery, New York 1972 - Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 1968 - Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 1966 - Borgenicht Gallery, New York
Awards 2006 - Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, semifinalist in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2003 - Thomas R. Proctor Prize for Sculpture, National Academy of Design, New York, 178th Annual Exhibition 1998 - Alex Ettl Award, National Academy of Design, New York, 173rd Annual Exhibition 1995 - Purchase Award, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford, Connecticut 1993 - Certificate of Merit in Sculpture, National Academy of Design, New York, 168th Annual Exhibition 1988 - Gold Medal in Sculpture, National Academy of Design, New York, 163rd Annual Exhibition 1984 - Albert Jacobson Memorial Award First Prize for Figurative Sculpture, Silvermine Guild, Connecticut, 34th Annual Art of Northeast U.S.A. 1981 - The Dessie Greer Prize, National Academy of Design, 156th Annual Exhibition, New York 1980 - Elected into the National Academy of Design 1980 - The Solon H. Borglum Award for Figurative Sculpture, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut, 30th Annual Art of Northeast U.S.A. 1962-65 - Rome Prize Fellowship in Sculpture, American Academy in Rome 1962 - Ford Foundation Purchase Award 1962 - Alfred G. B. Steel Memorial Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: 157th Annual Exhibition 1961 - National Institute of Arts & Letters Grant 1959 - Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant 1958 - Huntington Hartford Fellowship 1958 - Gold Medal of Honor in Sculpture, Audubon Artists, 17th Annual Exhibition 1957 - Special Honorable Mention, Avery Award, Architectural League of New York, Ida Abrahms Lewis Award, Rochester Museum of Art, Finger Lakes Exhibition
Collections (Partial list)
Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland
Akron Art Museum, Ohio
American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
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
References
External links Philip Grausman website Grounds for Sculpture Review 8/26/08 - The New York Observer
Arthur Miller portrait (National Portrait Gallery)