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Robert Beauchamp, American (1923-1995)
Untitled
Hand signed lower right, titled verso.
MIxed media oil painting on heavy art paper
sight: 22 3/4 x 29 1/2 inches
frame dimensions: 23 1/4 x 30 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches, metal frame with glazing
Provenance: Private Collection. Frame inscribed 'Property of AT&T' Bears label from their corporate art collection.
Robert Beauchamp (1923 – March 1995) was an American figurative painter and arts educator. Beauchamp's paintings and drawings are known for depicting dramatic creatures and figures with expressionistic colors. His work was described in the New York Times as being "both frightening and amusing,". He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a student of Hans Hofmann.
Robert Beauchamp was born in Denver, Colorado in 1923. He had three brothers and three sisters, and the children were orphaned by both parents by the time Beauchamp was three. The family grew up impoverished due to the Great Depression, living in a community house with other families. As a child he dabbled in art but it wasn't until high school that he began taking art classes. When not creating art he also played sports; football and basketball, and enjoyed chemistry and geology.
He was told he was good at drawing, and replaced study hall classes with art classes, receiving instruction and inspiration from a Welsh teacher named R. Idris Thomas. While in high school Beauchamp would go, every Monday, to the public library and a local museum where he would read books about art; specifically French painting, as assigned by Thomas. Beauchamp absorbed the tenets of European Modernism and American Abstract Expressionism—with which he eventually broke. While abstraction, with its focus on color and form, underlies his compositions, he filled canvas and paper with psychologically acute portraits of himself and others, nudes, animals, and objects of all kinds. Beauchamp would spend upwards of four hours a day in the art room and eventually won the Carter Memorial Prize, which provided a scholarship to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. At Colorado Springs he studied under Boardman Robinson, painting landscapes in nature.
Beauchamp eventually joined the Navy and then returned to Colorado Springs to continue his studies. Traveling the world as an Armed Guard, he spent a year and a half at sea and the rest of the three years in San Francisco. Seeking to make money, and to follow his love for a girl, Beauchamp decided to attend Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1947–1948. There he studied pottery, believing one could "make more money selling pots than you could selling paintings." He described his experience at Cranbrook as intimidating and claustrophobic, and eventually switched to sculpture before switching to painting.
Beauchamp moved to New York City in the early 1950s and was involved in the Tenth Street galleries, which provided outlets for more experimental artists and the second generation of abstract expressionists. Despite his involvement with 10th Street and friendships with abstract artists, abstract art never interested in him. He showed at numerous galleries in New York and Provincetown, socializing with gallery owners, artists and collectors. His first exhibition was at the Tanager Gallery in New York, he also showed during the 1950s at the Hansa Gallery. In New York and Provincetown he studied under Hans Hofmann Eventually he felt that abstract expressionism became dull and stalemated.
During the 1960s he showed at the Green Gallery. C. 1960 he was awarded a Fulbright Award allowing him to travel to La Romola, Italy. He traveled frequently to cities such as Rome and worked constantly. Beauchamp returned to the states and lived in Provincetown at Walter Gutman's house, who awarded Beauchamp a grant. That year he met his future wife, Nadine Valenti, whom he married in 1967. Beauchamp taught at a variety of schools during his lifetime including Brooklyn College, School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York during the last fifteen years of his life.
Beauchamp described his drawings as painterly, seeking the spontaneity in an image. He would develop a drawing then a painting, and vice versa. His heavily impastoed paintings, often described as sculptures themselves, came from the pouring of paint from a can, with little planning and constant evolution in the medium upon the canvas. He preferred little planning to his creations, believing that an artists work would become stale and repetitive with constant planning.
He also created large scale works, at times 70 inches long. Beauchamp had little intention of ever selling his large works, preferring to create them due to the slow and intense experience he received from the process. The large drawings he created on the floor, and the smaller works were created on a table. Paintings were created on either the floor or wall and he described his painting process as "splattering", "pushing the paint around," and sponging.
Animals often appear in his paintings, despite a dislike for domestic animals outside of his artistic creations. He called the characters in his paintings as Beauchamps. Some Beauchamps hold meaning, with Beauchamp rarely sharing the meaning behind the symbols and characters. He made up the creatures himself, seeking to emphasize the character of each.
In 2006 the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Visual & Performing Arts hosted an exhibition of Beauchamp's pieces from the 1960s, curators stated that Beauchamp's work: "effortlessly blends innovative style elements with narrative, descriptive images. One senses equal enjoyment in the manipulation of, and interaction with, color and paint, and the often sudden and unexpected presence of a wasp or a lump of sugar."
included in the important exhibit "Twelve New York Painters." New York: David Findlay Jr. Fine Art with Mary Abbott, Alcopley, Robert Beauchamp, Byron Browne, Charles Cajori, Jim Forsberg, Carl Heidenreich, Angelo Ippolito, Emily Mason, Robert Natkin, Robert Richenburg and Nina Tryggvadottir.
He was associated with The Rhino Horn Group of notable artists, Benny Andrews, Jay Milder, Peter Dean, Leonel Góngora, Red Grooms and Lester Johnson were all associated with it as well. There was a collective emphasis on depicting the human condition as subject matter, criticizing social ills and cultural myopia, and encouraging a range of emotional responses. The existence of Rhino Horn (throughout the 60’s and 70’s) contradicts the narrative in many art historical texts that Neo-Expressionism in the late 1970s was the return to mythological, audacious and boldly charged figurative nude painting. It underscores a lineal continuity of American Figurative Expressionism from the 1950s onward.
Select Notable Exhibitions
Felix Landau Gallery
Guggenheim Museum
David Findlay Jr Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
The Artful Jester, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
Beauregard Fine Art Gallery, Rumson, NJ (solo)
Acme Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
Figurative Expressionists of Provincetown, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Fantasy and Angst in the Art of Robert Beauchamp, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, MA (solo)
The Kind and the Fool Walk in the Rain, Iris & B Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College (solo)
M-13 Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Longpoint Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Vanderwoude-Tannenbaum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Locus Gallery, San Antonio, TX (solo)
Phoenix Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)
Gruenbaum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)
Lamar Dodd Museum, La Grange, GA (solo)
Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Ten Independents, Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY
Simone Sterne Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo)
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (solo)
Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)
Whitney Museum of Art, Biennial, New York, NY
Obelisk Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
St. Marks in the Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
March Gallery, New York, NY
Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Walker Art Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Select Public Collections
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA
Cape Fine Arts Museum, Dennis, MA
University of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, NE
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
University of California at Berkeley, CA
American Federation of Arts, Museum Purchase Fund, New York, NY
Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
The Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The National Gallery, Washington, DC
The Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
Dow Jones
Estee Lauder
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA
- Creator:Robert Beauchamp (1923 - 1995, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 23.25 in (59.06 cm)Width: 30.25 in (76.84 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
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