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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Books & Publications (41)
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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
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw New Ceramic Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Editor, Addison Gallery
0 pages (color)
California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
560 pages (color)
Bay Area Art From Morgan Flagg Collection
1997
Burgard, Timothy Anglin
47 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press
1996
Brown, Kathan
287 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area
1995
Nash, Steven A
216 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art
1993
Eitner, Lorenz (others)
418 pages (color)
Robert Hudson/William T Wiley Hudson-Sculpture/ Wiley-Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Belz, Carl
50 pages (color)
California Painters/New Work
1989
Hopkins, Henry
143 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
Artists Observed
1986
Stein, Harvey
160 pages
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985
Albright, Thomas
349 pages (color)
Robert Hudson A Survey (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Beal, Graham (others)
80 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
California Contemporary Recent Work of Twenty Three Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Monterey Peninsula Museum
63 pages
Robert Hudson (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Fuller Goldeen Gallery
12 pages (color)
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Trenton, Patricia
197 pages (color)
Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California
1981
Hopkins, Henry; Mimi Jacobs (illustration)
128 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)
The First Western States Biennial Exhibition Western States Art Foundation (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Ewing, Robert A; Joshua Taylor (Intro)
80 pages (color)
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
New in the Seventies (Archer Huntington Gallery Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Seabolt, Fred/Donald Goodall
60 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
1976
San Francisco Mus Modern Art
272 pages (color)
A Decade of Sculpture The 1960s
1974
Busch, Julia
236 pages (color)
Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast
1974
Plagens, Peter
200 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
University of Illinois
136 pages
The West Coast Now Current Work from the Western Seaboard (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Portland Art Museum
160 pages
Modern American Sculpture
1967
Ashton, Dore
130 pages (color)
Young America 1965 Thirty American Artists Under 35 (Exhibition catalog)