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Mid 20th Century Large Figure Sculpture by Robert Cremean, 1960

$8,500
£6,485.73
€7,378.01
CA$11,936.75
A$13,063.34
CHF 6,902.83
MX$155,919.61
NOK 88,088.70
SEK 80,564.28
DKK 55,109.87

About the Item

Very fine large sculpture by Robert Cremean Item is unsigned, but was purchased directly from Esther Robles gallery. The famous gallery that represented this artist on the 1960s. This piece is without a doubt an original by Robert Cremean. Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Robert Cremean was born in Toledo, Ohio, 1932. Education: 1950-1952 Alfred University 1954 Cranbrook Academy of Art, B.F.A. 1956 Cranbrook Academy of Art, M.F.A. Honors and Awards: 1954 Fullbright Scholarship, Rome, Italy 1957 Huntington Hartford Foundation Fellowship 1966-1967 Tamarind Workshop Fellowship Teaching: 1956 Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan 1956-57 University of California, Los Angeles, California 1957-58 La Jolla Art Center, La Jolla, California Selected Solo Exhibitions: 1953 Downtown Gallery, Toledo, Ohio 1955 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio 1957-1959 Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, California 1960-1975 Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1962 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California 1964 University of Texas, Austin, Texas 1965 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Forth Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas State University, Iowa City, Iowa 1966 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois Barnsdall Galleries, Los Angeles, California 1966-1967 California Arts Commission, Circulating Exhibition 1968 Landau-Alan Gallelry, New York, New York 1969 Wisconsin State University, Eau Claire, Wisconsin 1970 National Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia 1972 Archer Gallery, London, England 1975 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California 1976 M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York, New York 1977 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1978 Alan Hancock College, Santa Maria, California Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1983 Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, California Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1985-2002 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California 1996 California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, California 2002 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California 2007 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California 2015 Pasadena Museum of Art, "Robert Cremean: The Beds of Procrustes and the Seven Deadly Sins", retrospective 2017 Windfield Gallery, Carmel, California, "Intimate Sculpture" Selected Group Exhitbitions: Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Whitney Biennals, New York, New York Smithsonian Institution, New Vein Exhibitions in Europe and Latin America Selected Public Collections: City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California Lowe Museum, University of Miami, Miami, Florida Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Wisconsin State University, Eau Claire, Wisconsin National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D. C. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California National Museum of Art, Canberra, Australia Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Achenbach Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California Metropolitan Museum Art, New York, New York Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska Nevada Art Museum, Reno, Nevada San Jose Art Museum, San Jose, California University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis Museum, St. Louis, Missouri Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California Parnassus Library, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Creator:
    Robert Cremean 1 (Artist)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 67 in (170.18 cm)Width: 60.5 in (153.67 cm)Depth: 24.5 in (62.23 cm)
  • Style:
    Brutalist (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1960
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use. In excellent condition, wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    Pasadena, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU10623246734322

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