Studies at the Art School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he is strongly influenced by the collection of Post-Impressionist paintings
1952
Lives briefly in New York, deeply influenced by Willem de Kooning’s paintings
1998
Honorary Chairperson for Scholarship Fund, Art School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibitions
2007
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2007
Los Angeles Art Show (exhibited by LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM) at Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
2006
David Findlay Jr Fine Art, New York, NY
2004
David Findlay Jr Fine Art, New York, NY
2003
The Butler Institute of American Art/Trumbull, Youngstown, OH
1997
The Butler Institute of American Art/Trumbull, Youngstown, OH
1995
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992
Winchester Cathedral, England
1991
Installation of a mural for Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
1990
Springfield Museum, MO
1985
Klonaridis Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1985
FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1983
Tokyo Ginza Art Center, Tokyo Japan
1983
Nagoya Art Center, Nagoya, Japan
1982
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1981
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1980
Manus Preese Gmbh, Stuttgart, Germany
1979
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, NY (1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989)
1979
Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, Germany
1977
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, England (1980, 1981, 1984, 1990, 1992)
1976
Retrospective at Moore College of Art Gallery
1976
Retrospective at the Kansas City Art Institute
1974
Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland (1977)
1974
Galleria d’Arte Moderna-Ravagnan, Venice, Italy
1974
Galerie Merian, Krefeld, Germany
1970
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (1973, 1974, 1976, 1978)
1969
Retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1961
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1959
Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY (1961, 1963, 1965, 1968)
1958
Well Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Brooklyn Museum, New York Centre Pompidou, Paris Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas The Museum of Modern Art, New York Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Literature
1997
Henry Gerrit. “Robert Natkin at Reece.” Art in America, Dec 1997.
1992
Beckett, Sister Wendy. “The Story of Painting: Essential Guide to the History of Western Art.” London: Dorling Kindersley, London, pp. 388, 453
1989
Campbell, Lawrence. “Color Coordinates.” Art in America, Sep 1989, pp. 188-93.
1989
Wolff, Theodore F. “The Many Masks of Modern Art.” The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, 1989, pp. 72-75.
1988
Dillon, Michael. Introduction to Robert Natkin: Recent Paintings from the Hitchcock Series. Catalogue, Redding: Meriden-Stinehour Press, 1988.
1981
Fuller, Peter. Robert Natkin. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981.
1980
Henry, Gerrit. “Robert Natkin.” Artnews, Nov 1980.
1980
Fuller, Peter. “Excerpts from a New York Diary.” Art Monthly, no. 33, (1980), pp. 14-15.
1974
Fuller, Peter. Introduction to Robert Natkin. Exh. cat., André Emmerich Gallery, New York
1974
Nordland, Gerald. “Robert Natkin: Color-Saturated Elastic Space.” Art News, v. 72 (Feb 1973), pp. 54-55. Reprinted in Robert Natkin., Exh. cat. Holburne of Menstrie Museum, Bath, England, 1974.
1967
Tucker, Marcia. “Natkin: Overtones at Outskirts.” Art News, v. 66, no. 1 (Mar 1967). pp.48–49, 74.
1964
Judd, Donald. “Exhibition at Poindexter Gallery,” Arts Magazine, v. 38 (Feb 1964), p. 26.
1961
Edgar, Natalie. “Exhibition at Poindexter Gallery.” Art News, v. 60 (Nov 1961), p. 19.
