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{{short description|American sculptor}}
[[File:'Harmony Ridge -29', by Robert Lobe, 1990.JPG|thumb|right|500px|''Harmony Ridge #29'', by Robert Lawrance Lobe, 1990, anodized aluminum, [[Honolulu Museum of Art]]]]
'''Robert Lawrance Lobe''' (born 1945) is an American sculptor.  He was born in [[Detroit]] and grew up in [[Cleveland]]. 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 [[Honolulu Museum of Art]], 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 [[repoussé and chasing]], 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.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091220222239/http://www.luxartinstitute.org/Artist%2DResidency/Robert-Lobe/ Lux Art Institute]</ref>
The [[Albright–Knox Art Gallery]] (Buffalo, New York), [[Allen Memorial Art Museum]] (Oberlin, Ohio). the [[Brooklyn Museum]], [[Castellani Art Museum]] (Niagara Falls, New York). the [[Cleveland Museum of Art]], the [[Detroit Institute of Arts]], the [[DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park]] (Lincoln, Massachusetts), the [[Honolulu Museum of Art]], the [[Indianapolis Museum of Art]], (Mihama-cho, Japan), the [[Milwaukee Art Museum]], the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles]], the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]], the [[National Gallery of Art]] (Washington, D.C.), the [[Newark Museum]] (Newark, New Jersey), the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] (New York), and the [[Menil Collection]] (Houston, Texas) are among the public collections holding works by '''Robert Lobe'''.<ref>http://www.robertlobe.com/resume/collections/ The artist's website</ref>
==References==
* Brooklyn Museum, ''4 Americans, Aspects of Current Sculpture, Joel Fisher, Mel Kendrick, Robert Lobe, John Newman'', Brooklyn, N.Y., 1989, {{ISBN|0872731170}}
* Dougherty, Linda Johnson, ''A Dialogue with Nature, Nine Contemporary Sculptors'', Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, 1992, {{ISBN|0943044189}}
* 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, {{ISBN|0914782258}}
* Whitney Museum of American Art, ''Enclosing the Void: Eight Contemporary Sculptors'', New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988
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[[Category:1945 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century American sculptors]]
[[Category:Oberlin College alumni]]
[[Category:Artists from Detroit]]
[[Category:Sculptors from Michigan]]
[[Category:21st-century American sculptors]]