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Richard (Charles Richard) Smith

Richard (Charles Richard) Smith (1931 - 2016) was active/lived in New York / England.  Richard Smith is known for Abstract painting, color field, pop art.

Richard Smith (b.1931)

Associated with the Pop Art Movement, he was born in  Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England and  after military service with Royal Air Force in Hong Kong, he studied at St Albans School of Art and later undertook post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Art in London.  He went to New York  in 1959 on a Harkness Fellowship.  Pop was not yet a movement, but in Britain elements of it had already appeared in the works of Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi and Peter Blake, who was a student with Mr. Smith at the Royal College of Art in the mid-50's.  Mr. Smith returned to England later in the 60's and did not settle in New York again until 1978.

His early paintings are linked to Pop Art but they also relate to Color Field painting in the early 1960s.  Many of his works are multicolored abstractions based on images and objects from everyday life.  His often outsized canvases with their lush, seductive colors combi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12663 characters.]  Artist bio

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