Born in Richmond, Virginia, Robert Gwathmey became an artist known for his Social Realist depictions of life in the rural South. He was one of the first white artists to create dignified images of... Read full biography
Born in Richmond, Virginia, Robert Gwathmey became an artist known for his Social Realist depictions of life in the rural South. He was one of the first white artists to create dignified images of African-American people and did so in a style that was modernist with many geometric forms and bold... Read full biography
Born in Richmond, Virginia, Robert Gwathmey became an artist known for his Social Realist depictions of life in the rural South. He was one of the first white artists to create dignified images of African-American people and did so in a style that was modernist with many geometric forms and bold colororation. Although he lived intermittently in Pennsylvania and in the South, he spent most of his forty-five year career in New York City where his studio was at 1 West 68th Street. Frequently he... Read full biography
Born in Richmond, Virginia, Robert Gwathmey became an artist known for his Social Realist depictions of life in the rural South. He was one of the first white artists to create dignified images of African-American people and did so in a style that was modernist with many geometric forms and bold colororation. Although he lived intermittently in Pennsylvania and in the South, he spent most of his forty-five year career in New York City where his studio was at 1 West 68th Street. Frequently he returned to the South where he became concerned about the problems dividing blacks and whites. At the start of his career, he traveled in Europe for two years, and then taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and for twenty-six years... Read full biography
Born in Richmond, Virginia, Robert Gwathmey became an artist known for his Social Realist depictions of life in the rural South. He was one of the first white artists to create dignified images of African-American people and did so in a style that was modernist with many geometric forms and bold colororation. Although he lived intermittently in Pennsylvania and in the South, he spent most of his forty-five year career in New York City where his studio was at 1 West 68th Street. Frequently he returned to the South where he became concerned about the problems dividing blacks and whites. At the start of his career, he traveled in Europe for two years, and then taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and for twenty-six years at Cooper Union in New York City where he established a studio at 1 West 68th Street. In 1944, he received a R... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (86)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums
2004
Eldredge and Eiland
0 pages (color)
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
2003
Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton
252 pages (color)
Modernism in the South: Mid-Twentieth Century Work in Morris (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Laufer, Marilyn (essay)
20 pages (color)
Robert Gwathmey: Master Painter (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Butler Institute
0 pages
Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912 to 1948 (Exhibition catalog)
2000
McCoy, Garnett; B Reilly Jr. and Harry L. Katz, Editor
120 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Robert Gwathmey: The Life and Art Of a Passionate Observer
1999
Kammen, Michael
0 pages (color)
Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century
1997
Powell, Richard J
256 pages (color)
Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995
Severens, Martha R
289 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
A Southern Collection
1992
Pennington, Estill Curtis
246 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
A Spectrum of Innovation Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Acton, David
304 pages (color)
American Originals Selections from Reynolda House Museum
1990
Eldredge, Charles C
135 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Long Island Landscape Painting Vol ll, The Twentieth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Pisano, Ronald G
168 pages (color)
American Art/American Vision Paintings from a Century of Collecting (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Schall, Ellen (others)
164 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Advancing American Art Painting, Politics and Cultural Confrontation (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Littleton, Taylor/M Sykes
159 pages (color)
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Wooden, Howard E
151 pages
Order and Enigma (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Clark-Langager, Sarah
95 pages
Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe
95 pages
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980
1984
Watrous, James
334 pages (color)
Social Concern and Urban Realism American Painting in the 1930s (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Hills, Patricia
96 pages
Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Virginia Museum, Richmond
362 pages (color)
West '82 Art and the Law (Exhibition catalog)
1982
West Publishing Company
96 pages (color)
Social Art in America 1930-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Brown, Milton (essay). ACA Galleries
62 pages
The Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection The Brooklyn Museum
1981
Lane, John R.; Michael Botwinick (Foreward)
60 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst
544 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
Color Exercises for the Painter
1979
Salemme, Lucia
160 pages (color)
Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979
Springfield Library & Museum
216 pages (color)
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
Collection of American Art Randolph-Macon Women's College
1977
Williams, Mary Frances
211 pages (color)
30 Years of American Printmaking Including 20th National Print Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Baro, Gene
160 pages (color)
American Prints 1913-1963 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Castelman, Riva
160 pages
American Drawings & Watercolors from the Collection Susan and Herbert Adler (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Gerdts, William H; Jeffrey Hoffeld
82 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection