The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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Richard Art Hambleton PUBLICATIONS
1952/54 Vancouver, Canada - 2017 New York City. Known for: Street art, graffiti, landscape and seascape painting, silhouettes.
"Richard Hambleton,?‘Shadowman’?of the ’80s Art?Scene, Dies at 65," Obituary, by Richard Sandomir, The New York Times, November 3, 2017. His spectral silhouettes appeared?mysteriously on buildings in... Read full biography
"Richard Hambleton,?‘Shadowman’?of the ’80s Art?Scene, Dies at 65," Obituary, by Richard Sandomir, The New York Times, November 3, 2017. His spectral silhouettes appeared?mysteriously on buildings in Manhattan?— “I painted the town black,” he said?— but his work also drew notice abroad. In the... Read full biography
"Richard Hambleton,?‘Shadowman’?of the ’80s Art?Scene, Dies at 65," Obituary, by Richard Sandomir, The New York Times, November 3, 2017. His spectral silhouettes appeared?mysteriously on buildings in Manhattan?— “I painted the town black,” he said?— but his work also drew notice abroad. In the early 1980s, when graffiti seemed to be everywhere, hundreds of startling black-painted silhouettes appeared mysteriously on buildings on the Lower East Side and in other parts of Manhattan. The spectral,... Read full biography
"Richard Hambleton,?‘Shadowman’?of the ’80s Art?Scene, Dies at 65," Obituary, by Richard Sandomir, The New York Times, November 3, 2017. His spectral silhouettes appeared?mysteriously on buildings in Manhattan?— “I painted the town black,” he said?— but his work also drew notice abroad. In the early 1980s, when graffiti seemed to be everywhere, hundreds of startling black-painted silhouettes appeared mysteriously on buildings on the Lower East Side and in other parts of Manhattan. The spectral, life-size, menacing figures lurked and skulked and leapt. Some of their heads, with paint splattered upward, seemed to be exploding. Richard Hambleton, the Canadian-born conceptual artist who painted them all (sometimes after fleeing the police,... Read full biography
"Richard Hambleton,?‘Shadowman’?of the ’80s Art?Scene, Dies at 65," Obituary, by Richard Sandomir, The New York Times, November 3, 2017. His spectral silhouettes appeared?mysteriously on buildings in Manhattan?— “I painted the town black,” he said?— but his work also drew notice abroad. In the early 1980s, when graffiti seemed to be everywhere, hundreds of startling black-painted silhouettes appeared mysteriously on buildings on the Lower East Side and in other parts of Manhattan. The spectral, life-size, menacing figures lurked and skulked and leapt. Some of their heads, with paint splattered upward, seemed to be exploding. Richard Hambleton, the Canadian-born conceptual artist who painted them all (sometimes after fleeing the police, paint bucket in hand), was known as “the Shadowman.”. “I painted the town black,” Mr. Hambleton told People magazi... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesNew, Used and Improved Art for the 80's
1987Frank, Peter/Michael McKenzie159 pages (color)Artists Observed
1986Stein, Harvey160 pagesNew Art
1984Freeman, Phyllis207 pages (color)The East Village Scene
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Kardon, Janet64 pagesNeo York Report on a Phenomenon
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Plous, Phyllis/Mary Looker56 pages (color)