Robert Graham
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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. He continued his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in California, finishing in 1964.
Personal life
Graham married his first wife Joey Graham in 1959. They have one son, Steven, born in 1963.
He married actress Anjelica Huston in 1992, and they resided in an unusual dwelling in Venice, Los Angeles. Huston refused to move to the bohemian area, where he'd been living for years, unless Graham designed them a custom home that balanced security with beauty. The result was a remarkable home behind a long, solid cement wall to separate them from the well-traveled sidewalks: it was nicknamed the fortress.
Graham made a cameo appearance in Huston's movie, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, as the Venezuelan general near the beginning of the film standing on the deck of the ship. Wes Anderson mentions in the movie's commentary that Graham has some aspects in common with Steve Zissou.
He was interviewed in Visiting... with Huell Howser Episode 411.
Career
Graham had one-man exhibitions of his sculpture at important contemporary art galleries in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, London, Cologne, and Essen, Germany, by the late 1960s. He and family friend Joey and Steven lived in London for a time before settling in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. In 1972, he had his first solo exhibition in a museum. Since then, he has had hundreds of one-man exhibitions, one of which were at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In his art, Graham used a variety of materials and sizes. He made very small wax sculptures (circa 4 inches (10 cm) in miniature dioramas depicting people in various modern settings, such as a living room or a beach scene. Sexual dialogue was present in several of these discussions. Joe Louis' 1986 monument to the boxer is a 24 foot (7.3 m) bronze fist and forearm. In intermediate scales, he has created hundreds of nude figures and groups.
For the 1984 Olympics, Graham's first big commission was the ceremonial gateway for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. He also designed the commemorative silver dollar for the occasion. The gateway was modeled on contestants in the games, with two bronze torsos, male and female, modeled on contestants. The gateway was a key design feature of an Olympiad noted for the lack of new construction. The nudity of the torsos became a hot topic in the media, to the surprise of many.
Graham received several other commissions for monumental works, including The Great Bronze Doors of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles (2004).