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Black and white photograph of Richard Smith

Richard Smith, Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York, 1981
Gift of Kenneth Tyler 2002
Photographer: Kenneth Tyler

Richard Smith was born in Hertfordshire, England, in 1931. He trained at Luton School of Art, the St Albans School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London, before receiving a scholarship to live and work in New York. Smith arrived in New York in 1959 and, aside from a two-year teaching tenure at St Martin’s School of Art in London, has since made the United States his base. Though he has been aligned with Minimalism, Pop Art and the Situationist Group, Smith’s work is essentially characterised by his investigations into the fundamental nature of colour and form.

His Field and streams series, in which shapes of various colours are presented entangled against pure white paper, demonstrates this preoccupation. The series was created at Tyler Graphics in 1982.

Emilie Owens

Works in the Kenneth E. Tyler Collection


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    1981

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    Cam
    1981

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    Hiz
    1981

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Chronology


1931 Born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

1948-50 Attends Luton School of Art, Luton

1950-52 Serves in Royal Air Force, Hong Kong

1952-54 Attends St. Albans School of Art, Hertfordshire

1954-57 Attends Royal College of Art, London

1957 Included in exhibition, New trends in British art, New York Art Foundation, Rome, Italy

1961-63 Teaches at St. Martin’s School of Art, London

1961 First solo exhibition, Green Gallery, New York

1962 Included in travelling exhibition, British art today, originating at San Francisco Museum of Art, California

1965 Included in travelling exhibition, London: the new scene, originating at Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1966 Included in Venice biennale, Italy, and receives the Mr and Mrs Robert C. Scull Award; solo exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London; Richard Feigen Gallery, New York; Jewish Museum, New York; included in travelling exhibition, Aspects of British art, originating at Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1967 Included in São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, and receives Grand Prize

1970 Included in Venice biennale, Italy

1976 Receives first prize at British international print biennial, Bradford Galleries and Museums, Bradford, England

1978 Travelling solo exhibition, Richard Smith, recent work 1972-1977: paintings, drawings and graphics, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Moves to New York

1979 Solo exhibition, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1980 Completes Cartouche Series of wall hangings at Tyler Graphics Ltd, Bedford Village, New York

1982 Completes Field and Streams Series of mixed media prints at Tyler Graphics Ltd

1984 Included in exhibition, Prints from Tyler Graphics, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1985 Included in travelling exhibition, Pop Art: 1955-1970, organised by the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and shown at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

1986 Included in exhibition, Forty Years of Modern Art, 1945-1985, Tate Gallery, London

1987 Included in travelling exhibition, British Art in the 20th century, originating at Royal Academy of Art, London

1991 Included in travelling exhibition, Pop Art, originating at Royal Academy of Art, London

1993 Included in exhibition, The sixties art scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London

2004 Included in exhibition, Art from the ‘60s – this was tomorrow, Tate Britain, London

2005 Included in the exhibition, Stroll on! Aspects of British abstract art in the sixties, Musée d’Art Modern et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland

2007 Included in exhibition, Paintings from the noughties, at Letterkenny Arts Centre, Donnegal, Ireland

2009 Included in exhibition, Summer exhibition, at Royal Academy of Arts, London, England

2011 Solo exhibition, Richard Smith at 80, at Flowers Gallery, London, England

2013 Solo exhibition, Richard Smith, at Flowers Gallery, New York City.

2016 Richard Smith died in Patchogue, New York

© Tyler Graphics Ltd; revised Emilie Owens, 2007; revised Julia Greenstreet, 2013.

This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.

Further Reading


NATIONAL GALLERY PUBLICATIONS

  • Workshop: The Kenneth Tyler Collection, Jane Kinsman (ed.), 2015

TYLER GRAPHICS PUBLICATIONS

  • Cartouche Series, 1980

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