Laguna Art Museum
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1925 Los Angeles, California - 1998 Venice, Italy. Known for: Abstract-figurative expressionist painting.
Richards Ruben, an abstract painter and teacher, died on July 21 in Venice, where he was teaching in the summer art program of the Pratt Institute. He was 72 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was a... Read full biography
Richards Ruben, an abstract painter and teacher, died on July 21 in Venice, where he was teaching in the summer art program of the Pratt Institute. He was 72 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was a heart attack, his wife, Gail Divan, said. Mr. Ruben's heavily worked surfaces tended to be dominated... Read full biography
Richards Ruben, an abstract painter and teacher, died on July 21 in Venice, where he was teaching in the summer art program of the Pratt Institute. He was 72 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was a heart attack, his wife, Gail Divan, said. Mr. Ruben's heavily worked surfaces tended to be dominated by one color and one shape, a burly, wedgelike form that seemed to emerge from a field of brushwork. Neither geometric nor gestural, his style aligned him with the second generation of Abstract... Read full biography
Richards Ruben, an abstract painter and teacher, died on July 21 in Venice, where he was teaching in the summer art program of the Pratt Institute. He was 72 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was a heart attack, his wife, Gail Divan, said. Mr. Ruben's heavily worked surfaces tended to be dominated by one color and one shape, a burly, wedgelike form that seemed to emerge from a field of brushwork. Neither geometric nor gestural, his style aligned him with the second generation of Abstract Expressionism. He was born in Los Angeles in 1925 and after serving in the United States Army from 1942 to 1944, returned there to study art at the Chouinard Art Institute. In the 1950's and early 60's, he was part of the growing Los Angeles art world,... Read full biography
Richards Ruben, an abstract painter and teacher, died on July 21 in Venice, where he was teaching in the summer art program of the Pratt Institute. He was 72 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was a heart attack, his wife, Gail Divan, said. Mr. Ruben's heavily worked surfaces tended to be dominated by one color and one shape, a burly, wedgelike form that seemed to emerge from a field of brushwork. Neither geometric nor gestural, his style aligned him with the second generation of Abstract Expressionism. He was born in Los Angeles in 1925 and after serving in the United States Army from 1942 to 1944, returned there to study art at the Chouinard Art Institute. In the 1950's and early 60's, he was part of the growing Los Angeles art world, exhibiting his work at two of its most prominent galleries, Paul Kantor and Ferus. He moved to N... Read full biography
Richards Ruben - Artist Info
About Richards Ruben: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (8)
All MuseumsLos Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Montana Historical Society
Montana Heritage Center
225 N. Roberts St.
Helena, MT 59620-1201Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OKCMOA
415 Couch Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73102San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354