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1931 Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England - 2016 Patchogue, New York. Known for: Abstract painting, color field, pop art.
Richard Smith (b.1931). Associated with the Pop Art Movement, he was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England and after military service with Royal Air Force in Hong Kong, he studied at St Albans... Read full biography
Richard Smith (b.1931). Associated with the Pop Art Movement, he was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England and after military service with Royal Air Force in Hong Kong, he studied at St Albans School of Art and later undertook post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Art in London. He... Read full biography
Richard Smith (b.1931). Associated with the Pop Art Movement, he was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England and after military service with Royal Air Force in Hong Kong, he studied at St Albans School of Art and later undertook post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Art in London. He went to New York in 1959 on a Harkness Fellowship. Pop was not yet a movement, but in Britain elements of it had already appeared in the works of Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi and Peter Blake, who... Read full biography
Richard Smith (b.1931). Associated with the Pop Art Movement, he was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England and after military service with Royal Air Force in Hong Kong, he studied at St Albans School of Art and later undertook post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Art in London. He went to New York in 1959 on a Harkness Fellowship. Pop was not yet a movement, but in Britain elements of it had already appeared in the works of Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi and Peter Blake, who was a student with Mr. Smith at the Royal College of Art in the mid-50's. Mr. Smith returned to England later in the 60's and did not settle in New York again until 1978. His early paintings are linked to Pop Art but they also relate to Color Field... Read full biography
Richard Smith (b.1931). Associated with the Pop Art Movement, he was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England and after military service with Royal Air Force in Hong Kong, he studied at St Albans School of Art and later undertook post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Art in London. He went to New York in 1959 on a Harkness Fellowship. Pop was not yet a movement, but in Britain elements of it had already appeared in the works of Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi and Peter Blake, who was a student with Mr. Smith at the Royal College of Art in the mid-50's. Mr. Smith returned to England later in the 60's and did not settle in New York again until 1978. His early paintings are linked to Pop Art but they also relate to Color Field painting in the early 1960s. Many of his works are multicolored abstractions based on images and o... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Large Scale, Monumental Artwork
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Aluminum/Aluminium
- •Assemblage
- •Gouache
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Shaped Canvas, Three Dimensional
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Pop Art, Popular Culture
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •England, London Great Britain After 1900
Art School
- •South Kensington Art School, Royal College of Art, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Venice Biennale
Exhibition of Museum
- •Tate Museums, England
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art