ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kentucky native Raymond Graf graduated from Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky with a background in sculpture, ceramics, drawing, printmaking, and stone carving. During the past twenty years of his career, however, Graf has focused on cast-bronze sculpture and portraiture.

Graf's oeuvre of portraiture in Louisville can be viewed in his statues of J. Graham Brown, Tom Simons, Al Schneider, Finis E. Davis, Father James Maloney, Harold Henry "Pee Wee" Reese, and the Cardinal mascot of the University of Louisville.

His non-figurative public sculpture projects includes the golden finial atop Actors Theatre of Louisville, a stainless steel bike rack in downtown Louisville, and Henderson's eight life sized bird sculptures based on Graf's interpretations of Audubon paintings.