Robert Graham (19 August 1938 – 27 December 2008) was a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States. His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure and are featured in public places across America.
Graham was born in Mexico City, Mexico. After the early death of his father, he moved with his mother, his grandmother, and an aunt to San Jose, where he began his formal training at San Jose State University. He continued his s...
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Robert Graham (19 August 1938 – 27 December 2008) was a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States. His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure and are featured in public places across America.
Graham was born in Mexico City, Mexico. After the early death of his father, he moved with his mother, his grandmother, and an aunt to San Jose, where he began his formal training at San Jose State University. He continued his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in California, finishing in 1964. Within five years he had one-man exhibitions of his sculpture at important contemporary art galleries in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York City, London, Cologne, and Essen, Germany. He lived in London for a period before settling in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. His first solo exhibition in a museum was at the Dallas Museum of Art in 1972. Since then he has had dozens of one-man shows, including several at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Graham's first major...
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