Robert Lawrance Lobe (born 1945) is an American sculptor. He was born in

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and grew up in

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. He received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1967 and then pursued post-graduate work at Hunter College. ''Harmony Ridge #29'', in the collection of the

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, is typical of the depictions of rocks and trees in heat-treated, hammered aluminum for which he is best known. He employs an adaptation of

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, in which he encases trees and rocks in sheets of aluminum. Employing hand-held and pneumatic hammers, he beats the aluminum until it assumes the shape of the wood or rock. The

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(Buffalo, New York),

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(Oberlin, Ohio). the Brooklyn Museum,

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(Niagara Falls, New York). the

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, the

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, the

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(Lincoln, Massachusetts), the

, the

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, Mihama-cho International Outdoor Sculpture Garden (Mihama-cho, Japan), the

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, the

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, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the

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(Newark, New Jersey), the

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(New York), and the

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(Houston, Texas) are among the public collections holding works by Robert Lobe.http://www.robertlobe.com/resume/collections/ The artist's website

References

* Brooklyn Museum, ''4 Americans, Aspects of Current Sculpture, Joel Fisher, Mel Kendrick, Robert Lobe, John Newman'', Brooklyn, N.Y., 1989, * Dougherty, Linda Johnson, ''A Dialogue with Nature, Nine Contemporary Sculptors'', Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, 1992, * Lobe, Robert & Elizabeth C. Child, ''Robert Lobe, New Work'', New York. Blum Helman, 1989 * Schultz, Douglas G., Albright-Knox Art Gallery, ''Eight Sculptors'', Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1979, * Whitney Museum of American Art, ''Enclosing the Void: Eight Contemporary Sculptors'', New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lobe, Robert Lawrance 1945 births Living people 20th-century American sculptors Oberlin College alumni People from Detroit Sculptors from Michigan 21st-century American sculptors