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Richard Mayhew

Richard Mayhew (1924 - 2024) was active/lived in New York, California.  Richard Mayhew is known for Modernist landscape-imagery.

"Many of my so-called landscapes are very abstract because they are very free-form; I am involved with the spiritual feeling of space. Just to work with figures would be very limiting because that would identify a particular place or situation. The paintings look like landscapes but that is not necessarily my preoccupation in painting."

In trying to understand the source of Richard Mayhew's artistic gift, we acknowledge several Sources include: a grandmother who instilled in him a reverence for land and sea and the sense that he had unlimited potential; his pride in his African-American and Long Island Shinnecock Indian heritage; the fact that his ancestors were involved in the Underground Railroad; an involvement with the Spiral Group, organized by fellow socially conscious Black artists trying to make advances during the civil rights movement; his love of music, jazz in particular; and the time spent traveling the country observing the ever-changing landscape, from his n   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1509 characters.]  Artist bio

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