Grett H. Friedman ’42: Three Sculptures

“There is no mystical, hidden meaning in my work,” Santa Fe sculptor Gertrude Haas Friedman liked to say. The Skidmore ’42 alumna explained, “I let the material tell me what to do. I like that spontaneity.” After retiring from a thirty-year career in commercial art, Friedman came to consider herself “a professional, practicing artist,” opening her own pottery and sculpture studio in 1979. There Friedman experimented with ways of achieving such spontaneity, creating larger-than-life, bronze-cast sculptures. Grett H. Friedman exhibits three of these powerful sculptures on the Tang’s rooftop.