1912 - 2002
Grove studied in Washington, D. C., at the National School of Art, and at the school of the Corcoran Gallery of Art where Heinz Warneke was among his instructors; the summer of 1946 he studied with Robert Brackman at his school in Noank, Connecticut.
From 1936 to 1947 he worked for the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in Washington, first as a die-sinker and then as an engraver of currency portraits and vignettes. He then worked as an engraver with the Security-Columbian Banknote Company until 1962, and from 1962 to 1965, as a sculptor-engraver for the United States Mint, Philadelphia. In 1967 he and his wife, the sculptor Jean Donner Grove, moved from Philadelphia to West Palm Beach, Florida. Since that time he has pursued independent work as a sculptor and painter.
Grove has worked as a painter in oil, watercolor, as a graphic artist in etching as well as the steel engraving media necessary to bank note design. He is, however, principally known as a scuptor in both lowÄrelief and full-round. Medal and coin design was a life-long specialty; among the latest of these is the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea Centennial medal, executed in 1989. Among his full- to monumentally-scaled works are the Communion of Saints mural for the Church of the Holy Comforter at Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, 1952-58, done in collaboration with Jean Donner Grove; the founder's plaque for the Rehabilitation Institute in Chicago, 1969; the An American Eagle in bronze for the Palm Beach, Florida, bicentennial commemoration, 1976; and the Christenson Memorial Monument, Delray Beach, Florida, 1989.
Among Grove's memberships are the National Sculplture Society, the American Numismatics Association, and Artists Equity, of which he was national vice-president, 1965-67. He is a Chevalier of the Knights of Malta; in 1987 he joined the editorial board of Medallic Sculpture. He received the Lindsey Morris Memorial Award of the National Sculpture Society in 1967, and the Society's Mrs. Louis Bennett Prize in 1971. He received the American Numismatic Association's Sculptor of the Year Gold Medal in 1969. He maintains his studio and home in West Palm Beach, Florida.
From 1936 to 1947 he worked for the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in Washington, first as a die-sinker and then as an engraver of currency portraits and vignettes. He then worked as an engraver with the Security-Columbian Banknote Company until 1962, and from 1962 to 1965, as a sculptor-engraver for the United States Mint, Philadelphia. In 1967 he and his wife, the sculptor Jean Donner Grove, moved from Philadelphia to West Palm Beach, Florida. Since that time he has pursued independent work as a sculptor and painter.
Grove has worked as a painter in oil, watercolor, as a graphic artist in etching as well as the steel engraving media necessary to bank note design. He is, however, principally known as a scuptor in both lowÄrelief and full-round. Medal and coin design was a life-long specialty; among the latest of these is the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea Centennial medal, executed in 1989. Among his full- to monumentally-scaled works are the Communion of Saints mural for the Church of the Holy Comforter at Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, 1952-58, done in collaboration with Jean Donner Grove; the founder's plaque for the Rehabilitation Institute in Chicago, 1969; the An American Eagle in bronze for the Palm Beach, Florida, bicentennial commemoration, 1976; and the Christenson Memorial Monument, Delray Beach, Florida, 1989.
Among Grove's memberships are the National Sculplture Society, the American Numismatics Association, and Artists Equity, of which he was national vice-president, 1965-67. He is a Chevalier of the Knights of Malta; in 1987 he joined the editorial board of Medallic Sculpture. He received the Lindsey Morris Memorial Award of the National Sculpture Society in 1967, and the Society's Mrs. Louis Bennett Prize in 1971. He received the American Numismatic Association's Sculptor of the Year Gold Medal in 1969. He maintains his studio and home in West Palm Beach, Florida.
