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Robert Samuel Grossman

Robert Samuel Grossman (1940 - 2018) was active/lived in New York.  Robert Grossman is known for Caricature cartoons and illustrations, magazine covers and newspapers.

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"Robert Grossman, Illustrator With a Brash Touch, Dies at 78," Obituary, by Neil Genzlinger, March 19, 2018, The New York Times

Robert Grossman, a prolific and outlandish illustrator who made President Richard M. Nixon into Pinocchio, put President George W. Bush in a dunce cap and tied a jet in a knot for the “Airplane!” movie poster, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 78.

His son Alex Emanuel Grossman said he was found dead on Friday morning but is believed to have died of heart failure the night before.

On magazine covers and in newspaper pages, Mr. Grossman chronicled and caricatured a half-century’s worth of politicians, pop-culture figures and social issues. He had a knack for causing a stir with his colorful images, whether they be one-shot covers for magazines like Rolling Stone and Time or serial comic strips for The New York Observer or New York magazine.

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6 Book References for Robert Samuel Grossman
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Kraus, Jerelle All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page 280 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2001 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators 452 Yes
1986 Heller, Steven Innovators of American Illustration 224 Yes
1979 Childers, Richard H, et al Air Powered: The Art of the Airbrush 222 Yes
1975 Peppe, Carmine (Layout) The New Yorker Album of Drawings, 1925-1975 200 No
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