PARK LOCATION:
1763 Hamiltion-Cleves Road
State Route 128
Hamilton, Ohio 45013
513-861-1234

MAILING ADDRESS:
1763 Hamilton Cleves Road
Hamilton, Ohio 45013
513-868-8336

george sugarman

George Sugarman was born in New York in 1912 and received his B.A. from New York City College in 1934. He served in the US Navy between 1941 and 1945 and studied with Cubist sculptor Ossip Zadkin in Paris in 1951-52. After travelling in Italy and Spain to look at Baroque architecture and sculpture, he returned to New York in 1955. In 1957 he joined the New Sculpture Group - an association dedicated to replacing reference to the human figure with a new internal logic - and the Brata Gallery, a 10th Street cooperative, which showed his work in sculpture. His first polychrome sculpture was considered extremely radical because each form was painted a different color. In the 1970's Sugarman turned to large outdoor public sculpture and in 1982 was commissioned to create Cincinnati Story, to be placed in front of the Chiquita Building in Cincinnati. In 1999 Lowe Enterprises, owners of the Chiquita Building, offered the piece to Pyramid Hill and the park gladly accepted. Cincinnati Story is located on the hilltop on Gallery Loop Rd. George Sugarman died in 1999.