Richard Erdman (artist)
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Richard Erdman is an American artist. His family moved to Vermont
when he was five. He was a two-time NCAA All-American skier at the University of Vermont
. Erdman is the grandson of Charles R. Erdman, Jr.
, former mayor of Princeton.
at Pepsico
in New York. Passage is the largest travertine sculpture in the world to have been carved from a single quarried block of stone. Erdman's career began in 1976 and his work can be found in public and private collections in forty countries. Notable examples include Minneapolis Institute of Art, Princeton University
, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
when he was five. He was a two-time NCAA All-American skier at the University of Vermont
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...
. Erdman is the grandson of Charles R. Erdman, Jr.
Charles R. Erdman, Jr.
Charles Rosenberry Erdman, Jr. was an American Republican Party politician who served as Mayor of the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey and Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee.-Biography:...
, former mayor of Princeton.
Career
Erdman's first real success came with the installation of the monumental sculpture, Passage, in the Donald M. Kendall Sculpture GardensDonald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens
The Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens is a collection of 45 pieces of outdoor sculpture at the PepsiCo world headquarters in Purchase, New York...
at Pepsico
PepsiCo
PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...
in New York. Passage is the largest travertine sculpture in the world to have been carved from a single quarried block of stone. Erdman's career began in 1976 and his work can be found in public and private collections in forty countries. Notable examples include Minneapolis Institute of Art, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
Major collections
- Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
- Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
- Carpathian Foundation, Kosice, Slovakia
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Flint, MI
- Dolly Fiterman Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
- Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo, Purchase, NY
- East West Institute, New York, Prague, Moscow, Brussels
- EcoLean International A/S, Sweden
- Four Seasons Hotel, St. Louis, MO
- Four Seasons Hotel, Singapore
- Four Seasons Park, Singapore
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
- Green Mountain Valley School, Waitsfield, VT
- Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- John E. Fetzer Foundation, Kalamazoo, MI
- JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY
- King Faisal Foundation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Lumiere Place, St. Louis, MO
- Marriott Hotel, Burlington, VT
- MGM Grand, Detroit, MI
- 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
- Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL
- Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
- Rockefeller Collection, New York, NY
- Sasak Peace Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
- Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT
- Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, Bethesda, MD
- Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
- Stratton Educational Foundation, Stratton Mountain, VT
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
- The Menninger Foundation, Topeka, KS
- United Nations, New York, NY
- United States Olympic Foundation, Stowe, VT
- University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
- University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
- Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ
- Weintraub Sculpture Garden, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Weishaupt Museum of Contemporary Art, Ulm, Germany