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Born 1938 Salt Lake City, Utah. Known for: Assemblage, non ob painter, prints.
Born in Salt Lake City, Robert Hudson grew up in Richland, Washington. He attended the California School of Fine Arts in 1957 (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and received his M.F.A. in 1963. In... Read full biography
Born in Salt Lake City, Robert Hudson grew up in Richland, Washington. He attended the California School of Fine Arts in 1957 (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and received his M.F.A. in 1963. In the 1970's Hudson turned to rustic constructions similar to those of William Wiley, although they... Read full biography
Born in Salt Lake City, Robert Hudson grew up in Richland, Washington. He attended the California School of Fine Arts in 1957 (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and received his M.F.A. in 1963. In the 1970's Hudson turned to rustic constructions similar to those of William Wiley, although they often contained a more Baroque profusion of objects--beer cans, a fishing basket, a stuffed and painted deer--and their surfaces were more brightly colored. He also returned frequently to painting,... Read full biography
Born in Salt Lake City, Robert Hudson grew up in Richland, Washington. He attended the California School of Fine Arts in 1957 (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and received his M.F.A. in 1963. In the 1970's Hudson turned to rustic constructions similar to those of William Wiley, although they often contained a more Baroque profusion of objects--beer cans, a fishing basket, a stuffed and painted deer--and their surfaces were more brightly colored. He also returned frequently to painting, generally combining gestural abstraction, geometric shapes, and fragmentary images to establish contradictions between illusionistic spaces and the flat surface. *Literature: . San Francisco Museum of Art, "The Painting and Sculpture Collection; Art in... Read full biography
Born in Salt Lake City, Robert Hudson grew up in Richland, Washington. He attended the California School of Fine Arts in 1957 (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and received his M.F.A. in 1963. In the 1970's Hudson turned to rustic constructions similar to those of William Wiley, although they often contained a more Baroque profusion of objects--beer cans, a fishing basket, a stuffed and painted deer--and their surfaces were more brightly colored. He also returned frequently to painting, generally combining gestural abstraction, geometric shapes, and fragmentary images to establish contradictions between illusionistic spaces and the flat surface. *Literature: . San Francisco Museum of Art, "The Painting and Sculpture Collection; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 to 1980" Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw . "New Ceramic Sculpture; Addison Gallery o... Read full biography
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Born in Salt Lake City, Robert Hudson grew up in Richland, Washington. He attended the California School of Fine Arts in 1957 (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and received his M.F.A. in 1963. In the 1970's Hudson turned to rustic constructions similar to those of William Wiley, although they often contained a more Baroque profusion of objects--beer cans, a fishing basket, a stuffed and painted deer--and their surfaces were more brightly colored. He also returned frequently to painting, generally combining gestural abstraction, geometric shapes, and fragmentary images to establish contradictions between illusionistic spaces and the flat surface.
*Literature:
San Francisco Museum of Art, "The Painting and Sculpture Collection; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 to 1980" Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw
"New Ceramic Sculpture; Addison Gallery of American Art, 65 years, a Selective Catalogue"; Robert Hudson, A Survey; many others.
*Public Collections: Cantor Arts Center, Stanford; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; The Newark Museum; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson; di Rosa Preserve, Napa; Oakland Museum; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
Biography taken from Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 to 1980 by Thomas Albright.