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.

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