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.[citation needed]
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.[1][2]
1958 - Gold Medal of Honor in Sculpture, Audubon Artists, 17th Annual Exhibition
1957 - Special Honorable Mention, Avery Award, Architectural League of New York, Ida Abrahms Lewis Award, Rochester Museum of Art, Finger Lakes Exhibition
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
1972–2008 - Critic of Architectural Drawing, Graduate School of Architecture, Yale University
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