The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
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Robert Edward Therrien PUBLICATIONS
1947 Chicago, Illinois - 2019 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Abstract imagery, modernist sculpture, large-scale chairs and tables.
Following is the online obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, June 24, 2019. "Robert Therrien, Sculptor, Dies at 71; He Made the Mundane Monumental; Mr. Therrien’s dining room table was... Read full biography
Following is the online obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, June 24, 2019. "Robert Therrien, Sculptor, Dies at 71; He Made the Mundane Monumental; Mr. Therrien’s dining room table was the model for his best-known work: a 10-foot-high replica that let viewers see it from below, as a... Read full biography
Following is the online obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, June 24, 2019. "Robert Therrien, Sculptor, Dies at 71; He Made the Mundane Monumental; Mr. Therrien’s dining room table was the model for his best-known work: a 10-foot-high replica that let viewers see it from below, as a child might. Robert Therrien, whose lifelong fascination with household objects like tables and chairs and pots and pans led him to recreate them as colossal sculptures, died on June 17 at his home in... Read full biography
Following is the online obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, June 24, 2019. "Robert Therrien, Sculptor, Dies at 71; He Made the Mundane Monumental; Mr. Therrien’s dining room table was the model for his best-known work: a 10-foot-high replica that let viewers see it from below, as a child might. Robert Therrien, whose lifelong fascination with household objects like tables and chairs and pots and pans led him to recreate them as colossal sculptures, died on June 17 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 71. The cause was cancer, said Dean Anes, the liaison to Mr. Therrien from the Gagosian Gallery, which represented him. It was in the 1970s and ’80s that Mr. Therrien began drawing and sculpting generic things familiar to him from... Read full biography
Following is the online obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, June 24, 2019. "Robert Therrien, Sculptor, Dies at 71; He Made the Mundane Monumental; Mr. Therrien’s dining room table was the model for his best-known work: a 10-foot-high replica that let viewers see it from below, as a child might. Robert Therrien, whose lifelong fascination with household objects like tables and chairs and pots and pans led him to recreate them as colossal sculptures, died on June 17 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 71. The cause was cancer, said Dean Anes, the liaison to Mr. Therrien from the Gagosian Gallery, which represented him. It was in the 1970s and ’80s that Mr. Therrien began drawing and sculpting generic things familiar to him from childhood: snowmen, keyholes, a coffin, a bird, a chapel, a hat on a stand. Those modest-size, Minimalist works yielde... Read full biography
Robert Edward Therrien - Artist Info
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004McGowan, Alison C (Editor)1,512 pagesObjects of Desire The Modern Still Life
1997
(Exhibition catalog)Rowell, Margit232 pages (color)American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996Hopps, Walter (others)320 pages (color)California in Three Dimensions
1995California Center for the Arts44 pages (color)Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen230 pages (color)