Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Richard Hamilton was born in Pimlico, London on February 24, 1922. He did an apprenticeship for an electrical components firm, during which time he began to take evening classes at Saint Martin’s School of Art and the Westminster School of Art.
In 1938, Hamilton enrolled in the Royal Academy of Arts. His studies here were unfortunately cut short the following year as he joined the army as a technical draughtsman for the duration of World War II. Following the war, Hamilton spent two years at the Slade School of Art, University College, London.
Hamilton began to exhibit his art at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), and taught at the Central School of Art and Design from 1952. The first major exhibition of Hamilton’s paintings was shown at the Hanover Gallery, London in 1955. In 1993, Hamilton represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale and was awarded the Golden Lion. He has been the subject of several major exhibitions at Tate in London, notably in 1970 and 1992. Other retrospectives include at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1973, MACBA in Barcelona, Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
In 2010, the Serpentine Gallery presented Hamilton’s work “Modern Moral Matters,” an exhibition which largely focused on Hamilton’s political and protest works. Hamilton has been showcased in the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s “Richard Hamilton: Pop Art Pioneer 1922-2011,” and the National Gallery’s “Richard Hamilton: The Late Works” opened in 2012.
Hamilton has been awarded with the John Moores Painting Prize (1969), the Talens Prize International (1970), the Leone d’Oro (1993), the Arnold Bode Prize (1997) and has been made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 2010. The Tate gallery in London has the largest repository of Hamilton’s work, but he is collected worldwide including at the Alan Cristea Gallery and the Museo Ncional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
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(Biography provided by Shapero Modern)
1970s Modern Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Screen
1980s Pop Art Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
1980s Pop Art Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Aquatint, Etching
1960s Pop Art Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Giclée
1970s Modern Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Screen
1940s Modern Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Aquatint
1950s Modern Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Lithograph, Screen
Early 20th Century Impressionist Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Color, Aquatint
Mid-20th Century American Realist Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Aquatint, Drypoint
2010s Pop Art Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Rag Paper, Screen, Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Giclée
1980s Pop Art Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Aquatint
1970s Surrealist Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Drypoint, Aquatint
1970s Pop Art Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Lithograph, Screen
1970s Pop Art Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
Etching
1970s Pop Art Richard Hamilton Portrait Prints
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