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Robert Richenburg    (American, 1917-2006)

 Robert Richenburg - Tight Place (Paintings) h: 23 x w: 17.8 in / h: 58.4 x w: 45.2 cm
Robert Richenburg
Tight Place 1964
 
  

Biography
1917 Born in Boston, MA
1942 - 1945 Served in WWII as a combat engineer
1948 Studied wtih Hans Hofmann
2006 Died East Hampton, NY

Exhibitions
2008 Abstraction: Summer 2008, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY (retrospective)
2006 Thomas McCormick Center, Robert Richenburg : Works on Paper from the 1940’s, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
2005 Arkansas Arts Center, 2005 Collectors Show and Sale, Little Rock, AK
2005 Opalka Gallery, The Sage Colleges, New York School: Another View, Albany, NY
2005 Westport Arts Center, About Paint, Westport, CT
2005 Thomas McCormick Gallery, Black, Chicago, IL
2005 David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, American Abstractionists, NYC
2005 David Findlay Jr Fine Art, Robert Richenburg: Works on Paper from the 1940’s, New York (solo exhibition)
2004 David Findlay Jr Fine Art, Robert Richenburg, NYC (solo exhibition)
2004 Rockford Art Museum, Reuniting an Era: Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s, Rockford, IL
2004 David Findlay Jr., Face to Face, NYC
2004 Thomas McCormick Gallery, Well Put Together: Abstract Expressionist Collage, Chicago, IL
2003 David Findlay Jr Fine Art, Robert Richenburg at 85: A Survey, NYC (solo exhibition)
2003 Hemphill Gallery, Abstraction1949-1959, Washington, DC
2003 Guild Hall Museum, The Ambiguous Toy, East Hampton, NY
2003 Thomas McCormick Gallery, The New York School and Beyond, Chicago IL
2002 David Findlay Jr Fine Art, Kindred Spirits, NY
2002 David Findlay Jr Fine Art, Continuums: Matsumi Kanemitsu, Fred Mitchell & Robert Richenburg, NYC
2002 Thomas McCormick Gallery, Robert Richenburg: Evolution of the Dark Paintings 1950-1960, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
2002 The Heckscher Museum of Art, What’s New: Recent Additions to the Museum’s Permanent Collection, Huntington, NY
2002 Gary Snyder, 500 Works on Paper, New York
2001 Gary Snyder, Abstract Expressionism- Expanding the Canon, NYC
2001 Thomas McCormick Gallery, Second to None, Chicago, IL
2001 MB Modern, Robert Richenburg – Metamorphosis, NYC (solo exhibition)
2001 Parrish Art Museum, Conversations Around a Collection: Acquisitions 1999-2001, Southhampton, NY
2000 Parrish Art Museum, The Nature of Seeing: Works from the Collection, Southhampton, NY
1999 Parrish Art Museum, As American As...100 works from the collection, Southhampton, NY
1999 Parrish Art Museum, Gifts for a New Century, Southhampton, NY
1998 Pratt Manhattan Gallery, This was Pratt: Former Faculty Centennial Exhibition, NY, and subsequently at the Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Parrish Art Museum, Dark Images, Bright Prospects: The survival of the figure after World War II
1994 Pollock-Krasner House, Works on Paper, East Hampton, NY (solo exhibition)
1994 Staller Center for the Arts, State University of NY, Robert Richenburg: Abstract Expressionist, Stonybrook, NY (solo exhibition)
1994 Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, Reclaiming Artists of the New York School: Toward a More Inclusive View of the 1950s, NYC
1994 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, New York-Provincetown: A 50’s Connection, Provincetown, MA
1994 Arlene Bujese Gallery, Robert Richenburg, East Hampton, NY (solo exhibition)
1993 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Robert Richenburg: Abstract Expressionist, Waltham, MA (solo exhibition)
1992 Guild Hall Museum, Robert Richenburg: A Fifty Year Survey, East Hampton, NY (solo exhibition)
1988 Benton Gallery, Southhampton, NY (solo exhibition)
1987 Benton Gallery, Southhampton, NY (solo exhibition)
1987 The Hodson Gallery, Hood College, 10 from New York, Frederick, MD
1986 Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Jung and Abstract Expressionism, Hempstead, NY
1986 Benton Gallery, Southhampton, NY (solo exhibition)
1986 Guild Hall Museum, 1+1=2, Paintings and Sculpture by 40 artist-couples, East Hampton, NY
1985 Vered Art Gallery, Photography Exhibition, Easthampton, NY
1984 Guild Hall Museum, Ordinary and Extraordinary Uses: Objects by artists, East Hampton, NY
1984 Bologna landi Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1983 Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Galerie fur Photographie, Braunschwieg, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Fireden (an exhibition of photographs), and subsequent tour in Germany, 1983-1984
1983 Guild Hall Museum, Arrivals, East Hampton
1982 Cornell University, Graduate School of Bussiness Gallery, A Roving Eye, Ithaca, NY (solo exhibition)
1982 Elaine Benson Gallery, The Unexpected, Bridgehampton, NY
1981 The Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY (solo exhibition)
1980 Cornell University, Graudate School of Bussiness Gallery, Ithaca Artists, Ithaca, NY
1976 University of Texas, Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, Retrospective View, Austin, TX
1976 Elaine Benson Gallery, The Unexpected, Bridgehampton, NY (solo exhibition)
1971 Ithaca College Museum of Art, Robert Richenburg: A Selective Review of Paintings and Sculpture, 1950-1970, Ithaca, NY (solo exhibition)
1970 The Picker Gallery, Colgate University, Robert Richenburg: A Selective Review of Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970, Hamilton, NY
1970 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, The 1950s Revisited: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of Gallery Alumni, NYC
1968 American Federation of Arts, The Square in Painting, traveling exhibition, 1968-1969
1968 University Art Museum, University of Texas, Painting as Painting, Austin, Texas
1968 Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, NYC
1967 University Art Museum, Recent Acquisitions in Modern Art, Berkeley, CA
1966 Museum of Fine Arts, Hilles Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, Boston, MA
1963 - 1966 MOMA, Hans Hofmann and His Students, NYC, traveling exhibition
1965 Seattle Art Museum, The Emerging Decade, Seattle, WA
1964 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC (solo exhibitions)
1964 Andrew Dickson White Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1964 American Federation of Arts Gallery, A Decade of New Talent, NYC and subsequent tour
1964 Larry Aldrich Museum, Dedication of the Old Hundred, Ridgefiled, CT (solo exhibition)
1963 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Biennial of American Painting, Washington, DC
1963 Krannert Art Museum, Biennial of ContemporaryAmerican Painting and Sculpture, Urbana, IL
1963 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC (solo exhibitions)
1963 Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, NYC
1962 - 1963 Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Twentieth-Century American Paintings (James Michener Collection), subsequently at Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania State University, and Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1962 Parke Bernet Gallery, Art Dealers Review of the Season, NYC
1962 Dayton Art Institute, International Selection of the Season, NYC
1962 Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (solo exhibition)
1961 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1961 Yale University Art Gallery, Contemporary Paintings-Best of 1960-61, New York Exhibitions, New Haven, CT
1961 Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA (solo exhibition)
1961 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, MOMA, The Art of Assemblage, NYC
1961 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC (solo exhibitions)
1961 Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, NYC
1960 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC (solo exhibitions)
1960 Rhode Island School of Design, Four Young Americans, Providence, RI
1960 Dwan Gallery, Black Paintings, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
1960 New Talent USA, a traveling exhibition, Circulated by American Federation of the Arts
1959 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC (solo exhibitions)
1958 Chrysler Art Museum, Provincetown, MA (solo exhibition)
1957 Artists’ Gallery, NYC (solo exhibition)
1957 Hansa Gallery, NYC (solo exhibition)
1955 Stable Gallery, Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, NYC
1954 Stable Gallery, Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, NYC
1953 Stable Gallery, Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, NYC
1953 Hendler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo exhibition in 1953)
1952 Hendler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo exhibition in 1953)
1952 Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA
1951 9th Street Gallery, The 9th Street Show, NYC
1950 Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA
1950 Museum of Non-Objective Painting (now the Guggenheim Museum), NYC
1949 Museum of Non-Objective Painting (now the Guggenheim Museum), NYC
1949 Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
Ithaca College Museum, Ithaca, NY
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Parrish Museum of Art, Southampton, NY
Pasadena Museum of Fine Art, Pasadena, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, CA
University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, TX
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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