Robert Lawrance Lobe
Robert Lawrance Lobe (born 1945) is an American sculptor. He was born in Detroit and grew up in Cleveland. He received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1967 and then pursued post-graduate work at Hunter College.
Harmony Ridge #29, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is typical of the depictions of rocks and trees in heat-treated, hammered aluminum for which he is best known. He employs an adaptation of repoussé and chasing, in which he encases trees and rocks in sheets of aluminum. Employing hand-held and pneumatic hammers, he beats the aluminum until it assumes the shape of the wood or rock.[1]
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Newark Museum (Newark, New Jersey), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), and the Menil Collection (Houston, Texas) are among the public collections holding works by Robert Lobe.[2]
References
- Brooklyn Museum, 4 Americans, Aspects of Current Sculpture, Joel Fisher, Mel Kendrick, Robert Lobe, John Newman, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1989, ISBN 0872731170
- Dougherty, Linda Johnson, A Dialogue with Nature, Nine Contemporary Sculptors, Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, 1992, ISBN 0943044189
- Lobe, Robert & Elizabeth C. Child, Robert Lobe, New Work, New York. Blum Helman, 1989
- Schultz, Douglas G., Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Eight Sculptors, Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1979, ISBN 0914782258
- Whitney Museum of American Art, Enclosing the Void: Eight Contemporary Sculptors, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988
Footnotes
- ^ Lux Art Institute
- ^ http://www.robertlobe.com/resume/collections/ The artist's website
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