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Robert Graham

Robert Graham (1938-2008), a Los Angeles artist best known for his sculpture and large civic monuments, was born in Mexico City. He began his career after gaining degrees from San Jose State College and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Graham was enormously productive throughout his career. He explored the female nude over many years in prints, sculpture and drawing. But he is best known for his large public commissions, such as the sculpture of two headless figures known as the "Olympic Gateway" at the Memorial Coliseum for the 1984 Olympics.

Museum Exhibitions
1999 Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
1997 Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
1994 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
1988 Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1984 ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles
1982 Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
1982 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1982 Joslyn Art Center, Omaha, Nebraska
1982 Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
1982 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fra

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BornMexico City, August 19, 1938DiedVenice, California, December 27, 2008EducationSan Jose State College, 1961-1963 San Francisco Art Institute, 1963-1964 Civic Monuments 2002The Great Bronze Doors, for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles2001"Prologue," addition to the FDR Memorial - Washington DC1999Charlie "Bird" Parker Memorial - Kansas City, Missouri1997Duke Ellington Monument - New York City Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial - Washington D.C.1994Plumed Serpent - City of San Jose, California1986Joe Louis Memorial - Detroit, Michigan1984Olympic Gateway - Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, California Public and Private Commissions 2007"Blessed Basil Moreau" Basilica of Notre Dame University, Indiana2006"Glass Panels," School of Architecture, University of Southern California2005"Gar

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Robert Graham (sculptor)

American sculptor

Robert Graham (August 19, 1938 – December 27, 2008) was a Mexican-born American 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.

Early life and education

Graham was born in Mexico City, Mexico on August 19, 1938, to Roberto Pena and Adelina Graham. Roberto Pena died when his son was six years old, and the boy, his mother Adelina, his grandmother Ana, and his aunt Mercedes left Mexico and moved to San Jose, California.

Robert Graham received his formal art training at San José State University and the San Francisco Art Institute.^[1] He continued his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in California, finishing in 1964.

Career

By the late 1960s, Graham 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, along with family members Joey and Steven, lived in London for a pe