Train Station, Claremont, N.H., 2001

Robert Pon was Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1923. He first started sketching when he was fifteen. He was a medic with the Ninth U.S. Army in the Battle of Germany with the Combat Engineers from 1943 to 1947. He then attended the American Art School in Manhattan, N.Y.C. He began working at the New York Public Library in 1951 in Picture Collection and as an illustrator. He retired in 1981. During these years he had studios in Manhattan, Hoboken, N.J. and Greenwich, CT. where he worked on pen and inks, sepia sketches, pastels, oils and in 1975 began sculpting in wood, limestone, marble and alabaster.

In 1988 he moved to an 1860s farmhouse in New Hampshire, where he built a studio and concentrated on his work for eight years.



Since 1996 he has lived in Manhattan for the winter months, where he returned to the habits of his youth, finding inspiration for his work on long walks through Spanish Harlem and other parts of the city.

His experience in Word War II and his impressions of the New York City area, along with his love of the classical arts have shaped his work. For an autobiographical sketch of the artist in his early days in New York City, click on the Monroe Street link below.

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