Courtesy the Peter Grippe Estate

Peter Grippe's terra-cotta sculpture "The Cellist" (1938-39), one of the works his widow recently donated to the Allentown Art Museum

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A Cubist-inspired sculptor and printmaker who died in 2002, Grippe accumulated the collection in his Long Island home and studio and his New York City apartment, which have also been donated to the museum. The Allentown museum received the gift, one of the largest it's ever received, from Grippe’s wife, Florence, who worked with its executive director, Greg Perry, at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Most of the artwork consists of Grippe’s sculptures, drawings, and prints, but also included in the collection is the rare portfolio 21 Etchings and Poems. That 1960 collaboration between the visual and literary arts features the work of poets and artists such as Frank O'Hara, Dylan Thomas, and de Kooning.

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