Robert Grossman (March 1, 1940 â€" March 15, 2018) was an American
painter, sculptor, filmmaker, comics artist, illustrator and author.In
a career spanning fifty years, Grossman's illustrations have appeared
over 500 times on the covers of various national publications. TIME,
Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Esquire, TV Guide, Sports Illustrated, The
Times, The Nation, The New York Observer, The Atlantic Monthly, The
New Republic, Evergreen Review, New York magazine, National Lampoon,
and The New York Times have all published illustrations by him. His
work has appeared in children's books, including The 18th Emergency
(text by Betsy C. Byers), and What Could a Hippopotamus Be? (text by
Mike Thaler). He has created album covers for Columbia, Epic, Warner
Bros., and United Artists.Grossman's father, Joseph Grossman, was a
display artist who gave his son his earliest training. The elder
Grossman also sent Robert to Saturday morning art classes at the
Museum of Modern Art, in Manhattan, NYC.Grossman graduated from
Midwood High School in 1957. He then attended Yale University, where
he served as a cartoonist, illustrator and editor of The Yale Record,
"America's Oldest College Humor Magazine" (it predates the Harvard
Lampoon by four years), and in 1961 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Fine Arts.
painter, sculptor, filmmaker, comics artist, illustrator and author.In
a career spanning fifty years, Grossman's illustrations have appeared
over 500 times on the covers of various national publications. TIME,
Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Esquire, TV Guide, Sports Illustrated, The
Times, The Nation, The New York Observer, The Atlantic Monthly, The
New Republic, Evergreen Review, New York magazine, National Lampoon,
and The New York Times have all published illustrations by him. His
work has appeared in children's books, including The 18th Emergency
(text by Betsy C. Byers), and What Could a Hippopotamus Be? (text by
Mike Thaler). He has created album covers for Columbia, Epic, Warner
Bros., and United Artists.Grossman's father, Joseph Grossman, was a
display artist who gave his son his earliest training. The elder
Grossman also sent Robert to Saturday morning art classes at the
Museum of Modern Art, in Manhattan, NYC.Grossman graduated from
Midwood High School in 1957. He then attended Yale University, where
he served as a cartoonist, illustrator and editor of The Yale Record,
"America's Oldest College Humor Magazine" (it predates the Harvard
Lampoon by four years), and in 1961 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Fine Arts.
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