Biografie von Raymond ROCKLIN (1922)
Birth place: Moodus, CT
Addresses: Peekskill, NY; NYC, 1960-62
Profession: Sculptor, lecturer
Studied: Educ. Alliance, NYC, with Abbo Ostrovsky; Cooper Union Art Sch., with Milton Hebald & John Hovannes.
Exhibited: Young Am., WMAA, 1956; Oakland Art Mus., 1959; Galleria Tiberina, Rome, 1959; Univ. Calif., Berkeley, 1960; Claude Bernard Gal., Paris, 1960; WMAA, 1960-62; Sculptors Guild, NYC, 1970s. Awards: Cooper Union Art Sch. scholar to Skowhegan Sch. Painting & Sculpture, 1951; Fulbright grant, Italy, 1952-53; Yaddo Found. fel., 1956.
Member: Sculptors Guild; Am. Abstr. Artists; Fedn. Mod. P&S
Work: WMAA; Provincetown Mus. Art, Mass.; Temple Israel, Saint Louis; Skowhegan Sch. Painting & Sculpture. Commissions: wall brass, comn. by Mrs. Beskind, New York, 1962 & Mrs. Nina Waller, Baltimore, 1963.
Comments: Preferred media: bronze, steel, wood. Teaching: guest artist, Am. Univ., 1956; asst. prof. art, UC Berkeley, 1959-60; guest artist, Ball State Teachers Col., summer 1964.
Sources: WW73; M. Seuphor, Raymond Rocklin, The Sculpture of this Century (1961); F. Hazan, article, In: Dictionary of Modern Sculpture.