Background
Erdman is the grandson of Charles R. Erdman, Junior., former mayor of Princeton.
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Richard Erdman
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Burr and Burton Academy, 1971.
, 1975.
Career
His family moved to Vermont when he was five. He was a two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association All-American skier at the University of Vermont. Erdman"s first real success came with the installation of the monumental sculpture, Passage, in the Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at Pepsico in New New York
Passage is the largest travertine sculpture in the world to have been carved from a single quarried block of stone.
Erdman"s career began in 1976 and his work can be found in public and private collections in forty countries. Notable examples include Minneapolis Institute of Art, Princeton University, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania Carpathian Foundation, Kosice, Slovakia Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Flint, Michigan Dolly Fiterman Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at Pepsi Cola, Purchase, New York East West Institute, New York, Prague, Moscow, Brussels EcoLean International A/South, Sweden Enea Tree Museum, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland Four Seasons Hotel, Saint Louis, Missouri Four Seasons Hotel, Singapore Four Seasons Park, Singapore Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Green Mountain Valley School, Waitsfield, Vermont Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York John East. Fetzer Foundation, Kalamazoo, Michigan Justice of the Peace Morgan Chase, New York, New York King Faisal Foundation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Lumiere Place, Saint Louis, Missouri Marriott Hotel, Burlington, Vermont Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Grand, Detroit, Michigan Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Master of Arts Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont Rockefeller Collection, New York, New York Sasak Peace Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, Bethesda, Doctor of Medicine Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont Stratton al Foundation, Stratton Mountain, Vermont Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel The Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas United Nations, New York, New York United States Olympic Foundation, Stowe, Vermont University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, New Jersey Weintraub Sculpture Garden, Tel Aviv, Israel Weishaupt Museum of Contemporary Art, Ulm, Germany.
