Person Record
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Name |
Holmes, Robert |
Places of residence |
Holmes' home and studio are at The Sea Ranch. His foundry, Bronze & Inc., is located in Sebastopol, California, fifty miles north of San Francisco. He feels he can control the quality and precision of the casting process by owning the foundry in which he does his work. |
Titles & honors |
His sculptures have been exhibited in galleries throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia since 1941. His work is owned by many private and corporate collectors worldwide, and he has had numerous one-man, group, and invitational shows. Holmes' sculpture "The Dancers" is installed in the UBS Bank in London, symbolizing the merger of UBS Warburg Bank in London and Paine Webber: "the art of the possible." |
Education |
Civil Engineering degree and architectural training from the University of Arizona |
Notes |
"Robert Holmes, although self taught, is intuitively dead center of the development of modern sculpture. The restless, thrusting energy of Rodin, the abstraction of Brancusi, the expressionism of Lachaise, the symbolic power of Moore, are all echoed in his work." --Richard Warren, Art HIstorian--Princeton University, Stanford University, San Francisco State University, Curator of the Gualala Arts Center's "Robert Holmes Retrospective 1941-1998. "The grace and serenity of his human abstractions attest to a master's command of his medium and a sublime artistic sensibility. Robert Holmes' all too rare achievement is that of distilling the human form to its essential elements and capturing, within those essentials, postures of truly poetic feeling." --Review by David Betz, Assistant Director, Vorpal Gallery Soho, New York. Uplifting emotions are a central theme in the work and as Holmes says, there is "No politics, no horror, no shock, no ugliness. There's enough of that in the world!" Jayne McGuire, in her review of Holmes' work for the August 2000 issue of Decor and Style magazine, states, "Holmes' contemporary figurative work, especially is life giving female figure, expresses a nurturing, universal quality which celebrates the joy of being, the joy of movement, and our basic human need for 'connectedness'. A consistent vitality is present in all of Holmes' figures, evident in rhe graceful movement of his dancers and runners, and in the solitary stillness of his reclining and seated figures." |
Occupation |
bronze sculptures artist Robert Holmes creates semiabstract cast bronze figures in limited editions of three to twelve, ranging from table-size to larger-than-life. He has this to say about his work: "My work is my statement. I don't believe that words go very far in describing sculpture. I would rather let people see my work itself and interact with it in their own way." |
Spouse |
Edith |
