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The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled the City
1960 · etching
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Peter Grippe
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SculptureFiguration
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7
Institutional Exhibitions
9
Works in Collection
17
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The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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Master Prints from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946–1954
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The Museum Collection of Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946
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Peter Grippe was an American sculptor who worked primarily in bronze and stone, developing an abstract formal language rooted in organic and geological forms. Active from the 1940s onward, his work emerged within the postwar American modernist movement, emphasizing simplified volumes and tactile surfaces that suggest natural erosion and growth. His sculptures occupied a middle ground between figuration and pure abstraction, often monumental in scale yet intimate in material sensibility.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 26d ago
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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