RICHARD ERDMAN Biography
The mastery and spirit that the artist's work exudes has created an enormous international following. Shown in over 130 solo and group exhibitions throughout North America and abroad, he has been commissioned to create such major works for The PepsiCo Sculpture Gardens in New York, the Four Seasons Park in Singapore, The Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis, and Princeton University in New Jersey. His work is in extensive private collections in over 40 countries worldwide. In 1985, PepsiCo, whose then Chairman Donald M. Kendall built what has been called the finest collection of major 20th century outdoor sculpture, commissioned Erdman to create the monumental sculpture entitled 'Passage.' The twenty-five foot long, sixteen foot high piece is the largest sculpture in the world carved from a single piece of marble. Cut from a 320-ton block of travertine, Passage embodies lightness, fluidity and grace, epitomizing Erdman's matchless skill as an artist and a master carver.
RICHARD ERDMAN Description
Richard Erdman's soaring, delicate ribbons of stone and bronze are in constant apparent movement, defying gravity, yet striking a formidable balance between fluidity and poise. It is the adventure and challenge of life that he strives to express in these works that belie the inherently weighty qualities of the material he cherishes.
RICHARD ERDMAN Resumé
Selected Public Collections
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo, Purchase, NY
Four Seasons Park, Singapore
East West Institute, New York, Praque, Moscow
Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
King Faisal Foundation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
United States Olympic Foundation, Stowe Mountain Resort, Stowe, VT
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Weintraub Sculpture Garden, Assaf-Harofen Medical Ctr., Tel Aviv, IsraelAir Products & Chemicals Inc., Allentown, PA
Akzo Nobel Inc, Clarks Summit, PA
American International Group, New York, NY
ANR Pipeline Corporation, Detroit, MI
B.A.T. Industries PLC, London, England
Deutsche Bank, New York NY
Bechtel Corporation, New York, NY
Canadian Corporate Funding, Ltd., Montreal, Canada
Centon Electronics, Inc., Irvine, CA
Conrad International Centennial Hotel, Singapore
Credit Suisse First Boston, New York, NY
Dolly Fiterman Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Enrich Oil Corporation, Abilene, TX
Enterprise Corporate Park, Shelton, CT
Evans Corporation, Chicago, IL
Four Seasons Hotel, Singapore
Galveston-Houston Corporation, Houston, TX
Goldman, Sachs & Company, New York, NY
Green Mountain Valley School, Waitsfield, VT
Halkin Hotel, London, England
Hilton International, Singapore
Humana Corporation, Louisville, KY
IBM Corporation, Essex Jct., VT
Ihilani Resort International, Ohahu, Hawaii
International Silver Corporation, Meriden CT
John E. Fetzer Foundation, Kalamazoo, MI
Johnson & Johnson Corporation, New Brunswick, NJ
Key Investment Company, Minneapolis, MN
Linclay Corporation, Cincinnati, OH
Lindenmaier Praizisiou A. G., Laupheim, Germany
Maeda Environmental Art Co., Tokyo, Japan
Max Weishaupt GmbH, Schwendi, Germany
MBNA Bank America, Wilmington, DE
North American Cerutti Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, Raritan, NJ
Pardee Resources Company, Philadelphia, PA
Rossignol Ski Corporation, Williston, VT
Rowe-Smith Oil Corporation, San Antonio, TX
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Oslo, Norway
Society Generale, Singapore
Stratton Educational Foundation, Stratton Mt., VT
The Menninger Foundation, Topeka, KS
Ward Manufacturing Corporation, Manchester, CT
Westwood Energy Corporation, Abilene, TXChancellor Helmut Kohl, Germany
Foreign Minister Ismail Cem, Republic of Turkey
Foreign Minister George Papandreau, Greece
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Canada
Rockefeller Collection, New York, NY
Senator Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey
Education
1971-75 University of Vermont
1976 Sculpture studies in Florence, Rome and Carrara, Italy
