$10,000 toward Space, Time and Metaphor, an exhibition with accompanying catalogue on the sculptor, organized by director Joseph D. Ketner II and guest-curator Anita C. Gross. Grippe attended Albright-Knox Art School and the Art Institute of Buffalo, NY before moving to New York City in 1936. In his work, Grippe explored issues of space and time through cubist-inspired terra cotta sculptures and new techniques that he developed in lost-wax bronze casting. Grippe was a Professor of Fine Arts at Brandeis University between 1953-1980.