William P. Reimann
Sculptor, draftsman, designer, educator

Education:
Yale University, New Haven, CT. 1957 B.A., 1959 B.F.A., 1961 M.F.A., (Sculpture)

Studied with:
Josef Albers, William Bailey, Bernard Chaet, Robert Engman, Rico Lebrun, Seymour Lipton, Gabor Peterdi, Jose de Rivera, James Rosati, Neil Welliver.

Currently Senior Preceptor, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Pro bono publico includes:
City of Cambridge, member, Cambridge Arts Council, through 1994.

Occasional Visiting Critic, includes:
Yale University, Dept. of Mathematics (lecture/workshop); University of Pennsylvania; S.U.N.Y., Albany, N.Y.

Permanent collections include:
Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.
Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (J.D. Hatch Collection of American Drawings.)

Major Sculpture Commissions include:
Atlantic Realty Corporation, Atlanta, Ga.
The Boston Red Sox Baseball Club
The City of Cambridge, MA.
General Mills Corporation
The City of Holyoke, MA.
Linpro Corporation,Westborough, Ma.
Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (Turnpike Authority)
Massachusetts Port Authority
Radisson Corporation
Shell Oil Corporation
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Talbot's, Inc., Hingham, MA.
Tropicana Corporation
Virginia National Bank, Richmond, VA.

Completions of commissions with full project responsibility including cooperation with sub-contractors include:
Massachusetts Bar Association
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, MA.
Radnor Township, PA.

Focus, recent work:
large-scale public art and site-specific commission work; incl. concept development, planning, fabrication/execution, oversight responsibility, implementation of art works, street furniture, up to and incl. turnpike-scale project installation. Numerous collaborations with architects, city, regional planners, State (Penn.) and Federal D.O.T's. Extensive work experience with many specialty-skills firms, including CAM laser-cutters, quarrymen, large general contractors, such as Kiewit-Perini, [ref. below, under Radnor Township].

Sandblast carved panel sculptures include:
1998 Sandblast carved paving rondel in Stony Creek Granite (10' diameter) "phase 2"
Location: Piers Park, East Boston, MA
Commissioned by the Massachusetts Port Authority (sole winner of juried competition, 2/26/96)
--Images of East Boston's local history combined with figurative elements.

1997 24 sandblast-carved panels in Stony Creek granite, redesign of pavilion (each panel 2' x 3') "phase 1"
Location: Piers Park, East Boston, MA.
Commissioned by the Massachusetts Port Authority (sole winner of juried competition, 2/26/96)
--Fifty images, with descriptions, representing the cultural heritage of the city's current and historical population

1997 Sandblast-carved bench, Bloodstone granite (3' x 8' x 3')
Location: Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA.
Commissioned by the Friends of Riverbend Park Trust, Cambridge. MA.
--inscribed with images and text to commemorate 90th birthday of Isabella Halsted, founder of Riverbend Park.

1995 4 sandblast-carved standing stones in Chelmsford granite (each 10' x 2' x 8")
Location: Korean War Veteran's Memorial Plaza, Holyoke, MA.
Commissioned by the City of Holyoke, with Carol R. Johnson Associates, L.A., Cambridge, Ma.
--Thirty six images, representing the cultural heritage of the city's current and historical population.

(date) Carved glass reliefs
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Commissioned by The Virginia National Bank
--Abstract design on four glass panel installations (each panel 4' x 8')

(date) Relief-carvings in Saguenay Pink granite
Location: The Bent Building, Atlanta, Georgia
Commissioned by the Atlantic Realty Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia
--two immense panels, each measuring 18' x 8', incised with an abstract design.

(date) 10 sandblast-carved bollards in Chelmsford Granite
Location: Porter Square Subway Station, Cambridge, MA.
Commissioned by the City of Cambridge (winner, with others, selected competition)
--ten bollards inscribed with images representing the cultural heritage of the city's current and historical population

Other Projects include:
1998 Turtle and Frog Fountain, bronze and granite automated water work
Location: Service Plaza 7W, Framingham, MA.
Commissioned by Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, Boston (winner, with others, selected competition 3/25/96)
Sponsored by Mobil Oil Corp.
--Figurative sculpture of a bronze turtle and frog, set in a monolithic granite basin.

(date?) plexiglas and brass sundial
Location: Talbot main offices, Hingham, Ma.
Commissioned by Talbot's, Inc.

Designated Artist
Radnor Township, Pa., from 1989. Designed/produced (with others), maintained oversight and/or installed sixteen large-scale works, complete, to date.
Location: Radnor, PA.

This project has been cited as a "Pioneering effort in the advancement of artwork successfully integrated into highway design" (Chief Project Engineer, Pennsylvania D.O.T). The Radnor Township Gateway Project placed 15 artworks along U.S. 30, Lancaster Pike, (of historic importance as the first toll road in the United States) and route I-476 (known locally as "the Blue Route").

Commissioned by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the Townscape Institute, preservationists and planners, in close cooperation with local businesses, institutions, and major corporations headquartered in the township, including Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Sun Oil Co., The Bryn Mawr Trust Co., and Villanova University. Coe, Lee Robinson, Roesch, L. A., Philadelphia, Pa. collaborated, as did the Radnor Township City Manager,'s Office, Township's D.P.W., Kiewit-Perini, prime contractors for Rte 476, and Radnor Twp. Police Department.

Work completed:

--stone cairn 27' in diameter x 22' high
--sandblast carved monolithic granite obelisk 26' tall x 3' square (tb installed)
--circle of five standing and ten recumbent megaliths, 36' dia.
--hillside griffin relief 90' x 100', executed using 200 tons of 9" Pa. limestone spawl
--granite highway mile markers
--assorted stone placements
--acrylic-cementitious stencils on acoustic barrier panels mounted on two overpass bridges of 189' and 70' spans, employing elements from Township Seal
--glockenspeil mechanical clock, employing elements from Township Seal

This project received the First Annual Award, among sixty entrants, awarded by the Environmental Design Research Association [April, 1998].

Current Projects
1998-1999 Designated Artist, Corporal Burns Park, City of Cambridge, MA.
Commissioned by the City of Cambridge, in collaboration with the Parks Department
--projected work: a series of sandblasted panels with a design theme of flora & fauna native to the local environment