Joseph Erhardy

Joseph Erhardy was an American sculptor.

Biography

Joseph Erhardy was born in Welch, West Virginia, in 1928. In 1949, in full vogue of the American abstract movement, he left his native country and went to Florence and studied classical sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti. In Rome, he became the assistant of Mirko Basaldella, who was himself the assistant of Arturo Martini, much admired by Joseph Erhardy. In January 1952, he came to Paris, where he has been living ever since. After an abstract period, he returned to the figure at the end of the sixties. Artistically speaking, he feels close to an international group of friends, painters and sculptors of his generation, who have been living in Paris since the 1950s, including Sam Szafran, Raymond Mason (sculptor), Roseline Granet, Philippe Roman and Francois Jousselin, who are in line with Jean Clair, art critic and member of the French Academy.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution: 7th Street & Independence Ave. SW Mail to: PO Box 37012/HMSG MRC 350 Washington, DC 20013-7012
The National Portrait Gallery (United States) 750 Ninth St., NW, Suite 8300 Washington, DC 20560-0213
The Corcoran Gallery of Art 500 17th Street, NW Washington, DC 20006-4804
The Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave, SE Washington, DC 20540
MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Avenue, MIT Bldg N52 Cambridge, MA 02139
Vatican Museum The Vatican Rome, ITALY
Pompidou Centre/Beaubourg, Paris, FRANCE
Downing College, University of Cambridge, UK
Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands

United States

"Warrior's Head", marble, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
"Bather" marble, "Little Flower" marble, "Little Head", marble, The Joseph H. Hishhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
"John Kenneth Galbraith" marble portrait bust, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
"Daniel Boorstin", Librarian of Congress, bronze portrait bust, The Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA
"Sir Robert Jackson" low relief in bronze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum, Boston, USA,
"Friedrich von Bischoff" bronze portrait bust, Museum of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Blooming, Indiana, USA,

France

"Ruth Fisher", monumental sculpture in granite- Montparnasse Cemetery France
"The Sea", marble, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France,
"Crucifix", bronze, Saint Front Cathedral - Périgueux
"Waiting", bronze, The Georges Pompidou Center France
"Coming Home from Market", bronze, Prefectural Square of Cergy Pontoise, France
"Raymond Aron", portrait bust in marble, Foundation of French Judaism, Paris, France
"Jean Corvisart", monumental memorial bust in terra-cotta, Roubaix Hospital, France
"Épée d'Académicien", presented to Fernand Braudel upon his election to the French Academy in 1985
"Madame Borochovitch", memorial portrait bust in bronze, Museum of the French Resistance Mouvement, Nantua, France

Great-Britain

"Nude with Drape", bronze, "Girl with hair in a bun", marble, "Little Girl" marble, "Asleep" marble, "Strife" marble, "Curved" marble, "Girl with an apple" marble, "Motherhood" marble, Downing College, University of Cambridge, Great Britain

Italy

Netherlands

"Double Sculpture" monumental sculpture in stone with marble inlay, "Crucifix" bronze, Catherina Hospital, Eindhoven
"Summer in the Tuileries Gardens" monumental sculpture in bronze, Beelden aan Zee, Museum Scheveningen, The Hague