Michael Ramus

Needle Nose, 1989
Cardboard, Plywood, and Pigment, 61" x 15"

Michael Ramus was born in Naples, Italy, in 1917 and died in 2005.  He studied lithography at the Art Students’ League, New York, and at Yale University.  Throughout his career as an illustrator, he also made drawings, paintings, and sculptures.  Ramus’ illustrations have been published in American Heritage, Audubon, Sports Illustrated, and Smithsonian.  Many of his sculptures such as the large-scale tool series of the late 1980s were constructed of cardboard and then painted to stimulate the textures and surfaces of actual objects.

 

*Excerpted from Tools as Art: the Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. Edited to reflect the artist’s passing

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