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Museums page for Robert Edward Therrien ((1947 - 2019)), known for Abstract imagery, modernist sculpture, large-scale chairs and tables. Showing 7 museum collections and exhibitions.
Robert Edward Therrien MUSEUMS
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
About Robert Edward Therrien: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (7)
All MuseumsDallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Drive
Laguna Beach, CA 92651Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Po Box 6826
Houston, TX 77005The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014