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Reuben Tam

Reuben Tam (1916 - 1991) was active/lived in Maine, Hawaii, California.  Reuben Tam is known for Modernist sea-landscape, non objective.

The following is from Shirley J. Grainger, September 2003:

I met Reuben Tam on Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine, in the early 1970s and admired his work tremendously. Red Tide at Sunset (c.1975), which appears in Monhegan Island: the Artists' Island, by Jane and Will Curtis and Frank Lieberman, is a fine example of his work.  He and his wife, Geraldine, summered there for many years, along with distinguished Greenwich Village painters William McCartin and John Hultberg.

I also remember meeting Charles Martin (known to many as CEM for his front covers of the New Yorker) and Hans Moller, and hearing talk of Zero Mostel, who had recently bought a house there, and Jamie Wyeth, but they were away from the island at the time.

What I remember most about my visit to Monhegan Island was how friendly and accessible all of these painters were, and how welcomed I was into their homes and studios.  I had travelled on the overnight bus   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3537 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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