Lot 150
Robert Beauchamp
New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, (1923 - 1995)
Titelman's Nudes, 1962
oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right. Tear in left side of canvas.
Exhibited: Hans Hofmann and His Students, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1963
Biography from The Columbus Museum of Art, Georgia: Robert Beauchamp was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1923. His highschool teacher, R. Idris Thomas, who facilitated his winning a scholarship to the Colorado Springs Arts Center, nurtured his childhood interest in art. There Beauchamp studied with Boardman Robinson.
After serving in the Navy and traveling around the world for four years during World War II, he returned to complete his studies at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. In 1947, Beauchamp went on to study painting and sculpture at the Cranbrook Art Academy in Michigan where, after taking academic classes at the University of Denver, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After viewing a traveling exhibition of artwork by students of the Abstract Expressionist painter Hans Hoffmann, Beauchamp was inspired to study with Hoffmann at his school in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He then moved to New York City where he continued his studies with Hoffman and met other Abstract Expressionists.
He frequented the Cedar Bar and "The Club," and became an active member of the New York School, with whom he exhibited his work. Hofmann instilled in Beauchamp the notion that painting is a process of revelation through the expressive manipulation of color on a canvas. For Beauchamp this technique provided the means to explore the subject of emotional and psychological emancipation. In this manner he developed his own, idiosyncratic approach to Abstract Expressionism where his free and loose brushwork describes human and animal forms in a surrealistic and sometimes disturbing expression.
Beauchamp's work was initially exhibited at the Tanager Gallery on New York's 10th Street, but in subsequent years he was represented by a number of New York dealers, including Zabriskie, Martha Jackson, Graham and Dintinfass galleries. His work was also exhibited in five Biennial exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, as well as in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.
Beauchamp was awarded a Fulbright travel grant to paint in Florence and Rome in 1959. In later years, he was awarded a Pollock/Krasner Grant from the Walter Gutmann Foundation, the Boskoff Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Like many of his colleagues, Beauchamp exemplified an emerging group of artist-teachers who taught at various schools and Universities around the US. He was on the faculty of the School of the Visual Arts, Cooper Union and Brooklyn College in New York, and served as visiting artist at the University of Louisiana, the University of Ohio, Syracuse University, the University of Illinois, the University of Wisconsin, the University of California at San Diego and the University of Arizona.
In 1980 Beauchamp was appointed the Lamar Dodd Chair at the University of Georgia where he taught for three years while exhibiting his work at Atlanta's Fay Gold Gallery. He returned to live and work in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1984.
His work was exhibited at several New York and Provincetown galleries until he died in 1995. In addition to the Columbus Museum, examples of Beauchamp's work can be seen in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Hirshhorn Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Carnegie Institute, and the National Gallery of Art. staff, Columbus Museum.
- Dimensions: 51 1/4"H x 62 1/4"W (sight) 52" x 63 1/2" (frame)
- Medium: oil on canvas
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