ROBERT BEAUCHAMP (American 1923-1995)

Robert Beauchamp was one of the earliest and most respected figurative painters to emerge from within the New York “Abstract Expressionist” School of the late 50’s. Arriving on the scene a few years after Jackson Pollock, Beauchamp choose to use figuration and narrative rather than pure abstraction, finding it inadequate to communicate his perception of the realities of the human condition. He  many ways prefigured renewed interest in the figure as subject matter in the late 80’s, an interest that has persisted into the 21st century.

Robert Beauchamp (he pronounced his name "Beecham"), was born in 1923 in Denver, Colorado. He studied art with Boardman Robinson at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. He served three years in the Navy during World War II, but then enrolled in the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He was soon to study for three years in both Provincetown and Manhattan with Hans Hofmann, the highly influential teacher of modern art.

Beauchamp's first exhibit was at the Tanager Gallery in New York, followed by many shows at, among others,  the Walker Art Center, Monique Knowlton Gallery, Graham Gallery, Long Point Gallery, M-13, The Sun Gallery, and the East End Gallery.

ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS 

Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York

University of Southern Florida at Tampa

French and Co., New York

Simone Stern Gallery, New Orleans

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Graham Gallery, New York

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Univ. ot Utah, Salt Lake City

Obelisk Gallery, Boston

American Gallery, New York

East End Gallery, Provincetown, Mass.

Green Gallery, New York

Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago

Tanager Gallery, New York

IMPORTANT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

"Ten Independents," Guggenheim Museum, New York nstitute of International Education, Artists Abroad

 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

 Museum of Modern Art, New York

Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

The Walker Art Institute, Minneapolis

AWARDS 

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1974

Boskot Foundation Grant, 1970

National Foundation ot Arts Grant, 1966

Gutman Foundation Grant, 1961

Fulbright Grant for Painting, Rome, 1959

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Arts Magazine, Oct. 1969

Art News, Oct.1969, April 1966

Show Magazine, June 1962

Time Magazine, May 25, 1962

TEACHING POSITIONS 

School of Visual Arts, New York

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Cooper Union Art School, New York

University of California at San Diego

GUEST ARTIST 

University of Wisconsin at Madison

University of Illinois at Chicago

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS 

Hirshorn Museum, Washington, D.C.

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

Denver Museum of Art, Denver

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Conn.

University of Mass. at Amherst

University of California

The Amer. Federation of Arts Purchase Fund

University of Texas

PRIVATE & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Walter P. Chrysler

Walter K. Gutman

Richard Brown Baker

Jack Poses

Joseph H. Hirshorn

Leo Castelli

Robert Scull

Lawrence Shainberg

Maximillian Schell

Joan Baer

Estée Lauder

Dow Jones Corpopration