Robert H. Hudson

Robert H. Hudson (born September 8, 1938 – June 14, 2024)[1] was an American visual artist.

He is known for his funk art assemblage of metal sculptures,[2] but he has also worked in painting and printmaking.

[2][3] Robert Hudson was born in 1938 in Salt Lake City, Utah and he grew up in Richland, Washington.

[5] In 2010, Hudson created a 16-story tall mural made of polychromatic enameled steel panels for One Hawthorne, a condominium building in San Francisco.

[7][4] His son Case Hudson (born 1968) is a master printmaker and has worked at Crown Point Press, and Gemini G.E.L.

A photograph of a seventeen-foot tall aluminum sculpture of flattened cubelike faces standing on two angular legs. The interior faces of each cube have been painted in rainbow colors.
Tlingit (1980) by Robert Hudson, located in the atrium lobby of the interior of the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Anchorage, Alaska. This sculpture is composed of painted aluminum, and stands 17' 10" x 11' 6" x 5' 10" in size.