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rickb
12-28-2008, 12:32 PM
A powerful force in modern sculpture leaving a wonderful legacy.

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http://www.robertgraham-artist.com/images/civic_monuments/tympanum.jpg

Robert Graham website: http://www.robertgraham-artist.com/

LA Times

By Suzanne Muchnic and Cara Mia DiMassa
December 28, 2008
Robert Graham, a Los Angeles sculptor with a towering public presence who designed major civic monuments across the nation, died Saturday at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, his friend Roy Doumani said. Graham, who had been ill for about six months, was 70.

An elegant, gentlemanly artist who maintained a large studio in Venice, Graham was enormously productive throughout his career. A fiercely independent perfectionist with high-tech skills and an enduring fascination with the female figure, he explored almost every conceivable position and attitude of the female nude in his personal work, often working in an intimate scale.

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Anita
12-28-2008, 08:18 PM
Thanks for the info and website link, Rick. I agree with your statement that Robert Graham was a powerful force in modern sculpture leaving a wonderful legacy. I wonder if he had work in progress...probably so. I hope when it is my time to go that another sculptor will finish my work in the manner it was conceived. What greater tribute could you offer a sculptor...
Anita