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1938 Brooklyn, New York - 2009. Known for: Mod figure painting, printmaking, teaching.
RICHARD MERKIN. RISD Connection: MFA in Painting, 1963; Professor Emeritus, Department of Painting; taught at RISD 1963-2005. About the artist: Merging his role as flaneur (connoisseur of city life)... Read full biography
RICHARD MERKIN. RISD Connection: MFA in Painting, 1963; Professor Emeritus, Department of Painting; taught at RISD 1963-2005. About the artist: Merging his role as flaneur (connoisseur of city life) with his role as painter and social historian, Richard Merkin retrieves lost cultural artifacts - a... Read full biography
RICHARD MERKIN. RISD Connection: MFA in Painting, 1963; Professor Emeritus, Department of Painting; taught at RISD 1963-2005. About the artist: Merging his role as flaneur (connoisseur of city life) with his role as painter and social historian, Richard Merkin retrieves lost cultural artifacts - a Turkish cigarette, a gangster, a bowler and generally "things most people don't know about" - and reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color.... Read full biography
RICHARD MERKIN. RISD Connection: MFA in Painting, 1963; Professor Emeritus, Department of Painting; taught at RISD 1963-2005. About the artist: Merging his role as flaneur (connoisseur of city life) with his role as painter and social historian, Richard Merkin retrieves lost cultural artifacts - a Turkish cigarette, a gangster, a bowler and generally "things most people don't know about" - and reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. Road to RISD: Often described as Rhode Island's most famous New York artist, Merkin followed a post-undergrad stint as a guard at the Museum of Modern Art with a year at Michigan State, then a full graduate scholarship to RISD. He accepted a teaching... Read full biography
RICHARD MERKIN. RISD Connection: MFA in Painting, 1963; Professor Emeritus, Department of Painting; taught at RISD 1963-2005. About the artist: Merging his role as flaneur (connoisseur of city life) with his role as painter and social historian, Richard Merkin retrieves lost cultural artifacts - a Turkish cigarette, a gangster, a bowler and generally "things most people don't know about" - and reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. Road to RISD: Often described as Rhode Island's most famous New York artist, Merkin followed a post-undergrad stint as a guard at the Museum of Modern Art with a year at Michigan State, then a full graduate scholarship to RISD. He accepted a teaching fellowship at RISD the year he graduated, in part because he wa... Read full biography
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Keywords (21)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Art School
- •Rhode Island School of Design, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •First National Bank of Chicago Collection
- •Sara Roby Foundation
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art