Richard Erdman (artist)
Richard Erdman | |
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 Richard Erdman with his marble sculpture, Volante. | |
| Born | Richard Stewart Erdman May 20, 1952 |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | sculpture, painting |
| Movement | Abstract Bronze and Marble Sculpture, Modernism |
| Spouse | Madeleine Dammers Austin |
| Patron(s) | Donald M. Kendall |
Richard Erdman (born May 20, 1952) is an American artist. His family moved to Vermont when he was five. He was a two-time NCAA All-American skier at the University of Vermont. Erdman is the grandson of Charles R. Erdman, Jr., former mayor of Princeton.
Education
- Burr and Burton Academy, 1971.
- University of Vermont, 1975.
Career
Erdman's first real success came with the installation of the monumental sculpture, Passage, in the Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at Pepsico in New York. Passage is the largest travertine sculpture in the world to have been carved from a single quarried block of stone. Erdman's career began in 1976 and his work can be found in public and private collections in forty countries. Notable examples include Minneapolis Institute of Art, Princeton University, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
Major collections
- Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
- Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
- Carpathian Foundation, Kosice, Slovakia
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Flint, MI
- Dolly Fiterman Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
- Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo, Purchase, NY
- East West Institute, New York, Prague, Moscow, Brussels
- EcoLean International A/S, Sweden
- Enea Tree Museum, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
- Four Seasons Hotel, St. Louis, MO
- Four Seasons Hotel, Singapore
- Four Seasons Park, Singapore
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
- Green Mountain Valley School, Waitsfield, VT
- Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- John E. Fetzer Foundation, Kalamazoo, MI
- JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY
- King Faisal Foundation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Lumiere Place, St. Louis, MO
- Marriott Hotel, Burlington, VT
- MGM Grand, Detroit, MI
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
- Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
- Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL
- Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
- Rockefeller Collection, New York, NY
- Sasak Peace Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
- Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT
- Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, Bethesda, MD
- Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
- Stratton Educational Foundation, Stratton Mountain, VT
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
- The Menninger Foundation, Topeka, KS
- United Nations, New York, NY
- United States Olympic Foundation, Stowe, VT
- University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
- University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
- Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ
- Weintraub Sculpture Garden, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Weishaupt Museum of Contemporary Art, Ulm, Germany
References
- Herrin, Alice and Tavakoli,Brenda."A Portfolio of Sculptors", Southwest Art, Santa Fe, July 1, 2001. Retrieved on August 23, 2010
- Frank, Peter(2008). Richard Erdman, . Skylark Press, Los Angeles. ISBN 978-1-4243-2398-2.
- Weaver, Thomas."Carving Artist", Vermont Quarterly, Burlington, July 1, 2003. Retrieved on August 23, 2010