Robert Grossman
| Robert Grossman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 1, 1940 Brooklyn, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Yale University Joseph Grossman (father, display artist) Museum of Modern Art (art classes) |
| Known for |
Illustration Caricature Comic strips Painting Sculpture Filmmaking |
Robert Grossman (born March 1, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and author.
In a career spanning fifty years, Grossman's illustrations have appeared over 500 times on the covers of various national publications.TIME, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Esquire, TV Guide, Sports Illustrated, The Times, The Nation, The New York Observer, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Evergreen Review, New York magazine, National Lampoon, and The New York Times have all published illustrations by him. His work has appeared in children's books, including The 18th Emergency (text by Betsy C. Byers), and What Could a Hippopotamus Be? (text by Mike Thaler). He has created album covers for Columbia, Epic, Warner Bros., and United Artists.
Grossman's father, Joseph Grossman, was a display artist who gave his son his earliest training. The elder Grossman also sent Robert to Saturday morning art classes at the Museum of Modern Art, in Manhattan, NYC.
Grossman attended Yale University, where he served as a cartoonist, illustrator and editor of The Yale Record, "America's Oldest College Humor Magazine" (it predates the Harvard Lampoon by four years), and in 1961 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts.
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