Harold Tovish studied with Oronzio Maldarelli at Columbia University between 1940-1943. He then went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ossip Azdkine School of Sculpture and Drawing in 1949-1950 and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere in 1950-1951. He was Sculptor in Residence at the American Academy in Rome in 1966 and received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship the following year. He was also named a Research Fellow of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (National Gallery, Washington, D.C.) in 1967. He served on the faculties of Alfred University, the University of Minnesota, the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the University of Hawaii, and Boston University. A number of public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, have examples of his work.
