Hugo Robus

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Hugo Robus (1885 – January 14, 1964) was an American sculptor. He co-founded an art colony in New City, New York. His sculptures are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Robus was born in 1885 in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] He attended the Cleveland School of Art in his hometown, the National Academy of Design in New York City, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.[1][2]

Chippewa Legend (1939), relief sculpture by Robus at the post office in Munising, Michigan

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