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Richard Pousette-Dart

Richard Pousette-Dart (1916 - 1992) was active/lived in New York, Minnesota.  Richard Pousette Dart is known for Biomorphic to minimal painting, portrait.

Richard Pousette-Dart was born in 1916 in St. Paul, Minnesota.  He began drawing and painting when he was eight.  His father was Nathaniel Pousette, painter and writer on art and artists, and his mother was Flora Louise Dart, poet and musician.  They hyphenated their surnames when they married to show they respected each other as equals.  Richard grew up in Valhalla, in Westchester County, New York.  His father did not believe in formal art lessons, and Richard spent hours sitting in his father's attic studio and watching his father paint.  Art was only one of the many interests he had as a child, and he acquired them all through active involvement.

In 1936 Pousette-Dart entered Bard College, but in rebellion against formal education, he only stayed a matter of months when he left to pursue his art activity in New York City.  He started out as a sculptor.  Then he supported himself by doing lettering for the sculptor Paul   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11854 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Richard Pousette-Dart

   Publications  Book References:  74
Magazine References:  12

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12 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Richard Pousette-Dart
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTFORUM Preview May 2006 Editors Yes
ARTnews Bubbling Over in Talent September 2004 Baker, Kenneth Yes
ARTnews Portrait of the Art World October 2002 Editors, ARTnews No
ARTnews Reviews May 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Antiques From Funnies to Fine Art June 2000 Ketcham, Hank Yes
Art & Auction Report from Florida January 2000 Vincent, Steven Yes
ARTnews Reviews November 1999 Editors Yes
American Art Review The American Century Part 1 August 1999 Editors, American Art Review Yes
Art in America Relics of Transcendence May 1998 Kuspit, Donald Yes
ARTnews Reviews February 1998 Editors, Art News Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions September 1996 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Going Hollywood May 1995 Hogrefe, Jeffrey No
74 Book References for Richard Pousette-Dart
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Wechsler, Jeffrey (Hollis Taggart Galleries) Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism
(Exhibition catalog)
112 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
2003 Yau, John (essay) Richard Pousette-Dart Mythic Heads and Forms: From 1935 to 1942
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
2000 Herskovic, Marika New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists 393 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1995 Rushing, W Jackson Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde 250 Yes
1993 Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes) 622 No
1993 Messinger, Lisa Abstract Expressionism Works on Paper 163 Yes
1992 Hough, Katherine Transforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
111 Yes
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
335 No
1991 Fry, Edward F Richard Pousette-Dart Recent Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
66 Yes
1991 Hall, Lee Betty Parsons Artist, Dealer, Collector 192 Yes
1991 Polcari, Stephen Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience 408 Yes
1990 Hobbs, Robert/J Kuebler Richard Pousette-Dart
(Exhibition catalog)
195 Yes
1990 Rose, Barbara/Carter Ratcliff Richard Pousette-Dart White Paintings 1950-1959
(Exhibition catalog)
36 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)
230 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Levin, Gail Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection 407 Yes
1987 Newport Harbor Art Museum The Interpretive Link Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expression
(Exhibition catalog)
201 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)
269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Champa, Kermit S. (Intro); Nancy Versaci (Essay) Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939-1946
(Exhibition catalog)
142 No
1985 Kloss, William/C C Eldredge Treasures from the National Museu of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
254 Yes
1985 Kramer, Hilton The Revenge of the Philistines Art and Culture 1972-1984 445 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1984 Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center
(Exhibition catalog)
95 No
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1983 Smith Kramer Art Connections American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History
(Exhibition catalog)
113 Yes
1982 Terra Museum of American Art Solitude Inner Visions in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
41 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)
301 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Barnett, Vivian Endicott The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980 526 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Hobbs, Robert/Gail Levin Abstract Expression The Formative Years
(Exhibition catalog)
140 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
175 Yes
1977 New York Graphic Society New York School The First Generation 228 Yes
1976 Andrew Crispo Gallery Richard Pousette-Dart Recent Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
50 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Legg, Alicia American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA 84 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 E B Crocker Art Gallery American Drawings & Watercolors From the Munson Williams Proctor Institote
(Exhibition catalog)
28 Yes
1974 Monte, James K Richard Pousette-Dart
(Exhibition catalog)
79 Yes
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1968 Rose, Barbara Readings in American Art Since 1900 A Documentary Survey 270 No
1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 342 No
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1965 Los Angeles County Museum New York School-First Generation Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s 252 Yes
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)
91 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1961 Seitz, William C The Art of Assemblage
(Exhibition catalog)
176 Yes
1961 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists
(Exhibition catalog)
1961 No
1958 Baur, John I H Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)
72 Yes
1958 Cheney, Sheldon The Story of Modern Art 723 Yes
1957 Seuphor, Michel Dictionary of Abstract Painting with a History of Abstract Painting 305 Yes
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1956 Tate Gallery Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York
(Exhibition catalog)
72 No
1955 Baur, John I H/Rosalind Irvine The New Decade 35 American Painters and Sculptors
(Exhibition catalog)
96 No
1955 Museum of Modern Art El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)
80 No
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)
159 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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