Richard Pousette-Dart

Richard Pousette-Dart (June 8, 1916 – October 25, 1992) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter.

He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota and grew up in Valhalla, New York. Although Richard never attended art school, his father, Nathaniel J. Pousette-Dart, was a painter and writer on art. He moved to Manhattan in 1937. To support himself, he first served as assistant to the sculptor Paul Manship. During the 1940s, he was active in the avant-garde New York art world; he became one of the youngest members of the emerging group of Abstract Expressionists. In 1951, he moved to Rockland County, New York, where he lived with his wife, the poet Evelyn Gracey, until his death in 1992. The Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock, AR), the Columbus Museum (Columbus, GA), the Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, DE), the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, FL), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (Washington University, St. Louis, MO), the Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, MA), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the Newark Museum (Newark, NJ), the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Oklahoma City, OK), the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (Lincoln, NE), the Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) are among the public collections holding work by Richard Pousette-Dart.

References

* Gordon, John, "Richard Pousette-Dart", New York, Whitney Museum of American Art in cooperation with Praeger, 1963.
* Hobbs, Robert, and Joanne Kuebler, "Richard Pousette-Dart", Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1990.

External links

* Marika Herskovic, [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/50253062&tab=holdings "American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey,"] (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
* Marika Herskovic, [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/50666793&tab=holdings "New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists,"] (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6
* [http://www.hollistaggart.com/artists/pousette-dart.htm Richard Pousette-Dart Biography: Hollis Taggart Galleries] Richard Pousette-Dart and his wife lived in Valhalla, New York, in a large, white house at the corner of Sherwood Avenue and Madison Avenue, at least during early to mid nineteen-sixties, when our family lived next door to them. (We moved away in late 1966, so I don't know how much longer after that they lived there.)