The Final Series

In the last decade of his life, Robert Engman entered into an artistic seclusion in his home studio in Pennsylvania. The result of that period was a series of fifty-two pieces, distinct sculptures in miniature that allowed him to realize his sculptural ideas with the utmost efficiency. Divided into nine sub-series—called families—their forms feature different combinations of circles and squares explored in both warped and flat planes. While the majority of the pieces were created in the last decade of his life, one family in particular, Iconic, features a subsection of the landmark structural motifs Engman believed to be inextricably linked to his career and progression as a Sculptor, including some of his most well-known monolithic sculptures, such as “Triune.”