Don Gummer is a popular American sculptor, also famous as Hollywood actress Meryl Streep’s husband. Born in Kentucky, and raised in Indiana, Don had been interested in sculpting art pieces ever since he was young. Following his high school graduation, he enrolled into the Herron School of Art and later earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in fine arts from the Yale University. Following his graduation from the college in 1973, he moved to the New York City and began his career as a sculptor. Throughout the 1970s, he held many solo and group exhibitions of his works and earned a nationwide fame. His style was deemed to be rooted in constructivism but with a unique touch of his own. One of his earliest sculptures was titled ‘Hidden Clues’, which catapulted him to fame in the early years of his professional career. Some of his best artworks are ‘Open Eyes’, ‘The South Tower’ and ‘Reunion’. Through the 1990s and 2000s, he further held several solo and group exhibitions of his works, both nationally and internationally. He met Hollywood actress Meryl Streep in 1978 and got married to her in the same year.
