Robert Graham: The Great Bronze Doors for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels - Hardcover

Miles, Jack; Fogelman, Peggy; Fujinami, Noriko

9780964235939: Robert Graham: The Great Bronze Doors for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0964235935 ISBN 13: 9780964235939

Publisher: Wave Pub, 2002

In 1998 sculptor Robert Graham was commissioned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles to create the monumental bronze doors which would serve as entryway into the planned Cathedral of Our Lady of Los Angeles, the first major cathedral to be constructed in the United States in the new millennium. The Great Bronze doors were installed in May, 2002 and the Cathedral itself opens to the public in September, 2002. This book details the process of Grahams work and the iconography of the thirty-foot by thirty-foot, twenty-five ton bronze doors, and puts the work in a historical perspective.

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About the Author:

Robert Graham is an internationally renowned artist who works predominantly in bronze. Since 1964, his work has been the subject of over eighty solo exhibitions and two retrospective exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Japan and Mexico. His work is part of many national and international museum collections.

His civic monuments include:

1984 "Olympic Gateway" to commemorate the XXIIIrd Olympiad in Los Angeles, California

1986 "Monument to Joe Louis" in Detroit, Michigan

1994 "The Plumed Serpent" in San Jose, California

1997 "Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington D.C.

First Inaugural and Social Programs

1997 "Duke Ellington Memorial" in New York Citys Central Park

1999 "Charlie Bird Parker Memorial" in Kansas City, Missouri

2001 "Prologue" to the FDR Memorial, Washington DC

2002 "The Great Bronze Doors" for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, California

Jack Miles, Senior Advisor to the President of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is the author of God: A Biography which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 and has been translated into sixteen languages, and its 2001 sequel, Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God.

Peggy Fogelman is the Assistant Director for Education and Interpretive Programs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. From 1987 to 2000 she served as the museums Associate Curator of European Sculpture.

Noriko Fujinami is the Director of the Robert Graham Studio.

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