Robert Grossman has produced cover illustrations for more than 500 issues of national magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, and The New Republic. Today his work can be seen regularly in The Nation, The New York Times, Fortune, and The New York Observer. During the 1980s, he produced a number of animated television commercials. Mr. Grossman is an Academy Award nominee in the category of Short Animated Film. As a native of New York City, Mr. Grossman’s attended public schools in Brooklyn and art classes at The Museum of Modern Art. He graduated from Yale, and after a brief stint as an assistant to New Yorker art director James Geraghty, he launched his career as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. In addition to his Nashville-based photographer daughter Leila, Mr. Grossman has three other children: a painter, an actor, and a writer.
