Biography from David Findlay Jr. Gallery:
| Beauchamp was one of the first and more prominent Figurative
Expressionist painters to appear in the American art world in the late
1950’s. His work was bold, inventive, and at times eccentric and
wildly humorous. He was greatly admired by his peers: including
artists, critics and curators. He was one of those rare
individuals who went his own way and developed his own vision without
compromise. His output, which was extensive, included not only
oil paintings on canvas, but also oversized drawings and large
oil-stick paintings on paper.
His early works depicted romantic
and somewhat enigmatic fantasies. Later Beauchamp developed a
more existential expression in which seemingly unrelated objects,
animals and people, were combined in a dynamic tapestry. As he
matured, the human condition, with all its expectations, fears, and
ironic confusions, became his focus. Beyond the subject, however,
there was always the very nature of paint itself, which he used as an
emotional experience much as the Abstract Expressionists did. The
Beauchamp trademark was his masterful control of the medium. The
texture of the paintings, infused with his inexhaustible energy, became
just as important as his bold compositions and his powerful colors.
Beauchamp
was an active participant in the New York art scene, exhibiting
extensively throughout his career. During his lifetime he had 54
one-man exhibitions and participated in numerous invitational group
shows. He first showed in a group exhibition at the Tanager
Gallery, on Tenth Street in New York City in 1955, then at the Hansa
Gallery and the Green Gallery downtown. In the late 1960’s he was
represented at the Graham Gallery, and then at Monique Knowlton in the
1980’s and 90’s. The Whitney Museum included Beauchamp in six of their
Annual Invitationals, and the Guggenheim Museum included him in their
“Ten Independents” exhibit.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The National Gallery, Washington, DC
The Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA
University of California at Berkeley, CA
American Federation of Arts, Museum Purchase Fund, New York, NY
Herbert f. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NYHuntington NY
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Lamar Dodd Museum, La Grange, GA
Tucson University Museum, Tucson, AZ
The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
The Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA
Cape Fine Arts Museum, Dennis, MA
University of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, NA
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, MI
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Beauchamp
was the recipient of numerous awards including the Fullbright
Fellowship, two National Endowment Grants, the Guggenheim Foundation
Fellowship and the Judith Rothschild Foundation Grant, which was given
posthumously.
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Biography from Rogallery.com:
|  Robert Beauchamp (he pronounced his name like the gum, "Beecham"), was
born in 1923 in Denver, Colorado. He studied art with Boardman
Robinson at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. He served three
years in the Navy during World War II and then enrolled in the
Cranbrook Academy. Soon after, he studied with Hans Hofmann, a
highly influential teacher of modern art. His work with Hans
Hofmann lasted three years in both Provincetown, Massachusetts and in
Manhattan.
Beauchamp's first exhibit was at the Tanager Gallery
in New York, followed by shows at the Walker Art Center, Moniqure
Knowlton, Graham Gallery, Long Point Gallery, M-13, The Sun Gallery,
East End Gallery, Long Point Gallery, and in many other exhibits.
ROBERT BEAUCHAMP's work is in numerous museum collections as well as the collections of Estee Lauder and Dow Jones.
* IMPORTANT GROUP EXHIBITIONS "Ten Independents", Guggenheim Museum, New York
* Institute of International Education, Artists Abroad
* Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
* Museum of Modern Art, New York
* Carnegie International, Carnegie Inst., Pittsburgh
* Walker Art Inst., Minneapolis
* AWARDS Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1974
* Boskot Foundation Grant, 1970
* National Foundation ot Arts Grant, 1966
* Gutman Foundation Grant, 1961
* Fulbright Grant for Painting, Rome, 1959
* SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Arts Magazine, Oct. 1969
* Art News, Oct.1969, April 1966
* Show Magazine, June 1962
* Time Magazine, May 25, 1962
* TEACHING POSITIONS Teaching-School of Visual Arts, New York
* Teaching-Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y.
* Guest Artist-Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
* Guest Artist-Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge
* Teaching-Cooper Union Art School, New York
* GUEST ARTIST Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison
* University of California at San Diego
* COLLECTIONS Hirshorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
* Museum of Modern Art, New York
* Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
* Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
* Denver Museum of Art, Denver
* Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Conn.
* University of Mass. at Amherst
* University of California
* The Amer. Federation of Arts Purchase Fund
* University of Texas
* Mr. Walter P. Chrysler
* Mr. Walter K. Gutman
* Mr. Richard Brown Baker
* Mr. Jack Poses
* Mr. Joseph H. Hirshorn
* Mr. Leo Casfelli
* Mr. Robert Scull
* Mr. Lawrence Shainberg
* Mr. Maximillian Schell
* Ms. Joan Baer |
Biography from ACME Fine Art:
| Robert Beauchamp
1923-1994
Education:
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, with Boardman Robinson
Cranbrook Art Academy
University of Denver
Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, New York and Provincetown
Teaching Positions:
University of Wisconsin at Madison, visiting artist
Cooper Union
University of Louisiana, visiting artist
Brooklyn College
School of Visual Arts, New York
University of California at San Diego, visiting artist
University of Ohio, visiting artist
Syracuse University, visiting artist
University of Arizona, visiting artist
University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd Chair
Awards and Fellowships:
Fulbright Grant, 1959
Walter Gutman Foundation Grant, 1961
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1966
Boskoff Foundation Grant, 1970
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1974
Exhibitions:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Utah Museum of Art, 1967
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1972
University of South Florida, 1974
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Chrysler Museum
Denver Art museum
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Carnegie institute
Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Lamar Dodd Museum
Exhibitions Continued:
Everson Museum, Syracuse
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
Collections:
Whitney Museum of American Art
Museum of Modern Art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Gallery of Art
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art
University of Texas, Austin
Denver Museum of Art
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of California, Berkeley
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University
Everson Museum, Syracuse
University of Georgia, Athens
Lamar Dodd Museum
Tuscon University Art Museum
Seattle Art Museum
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah
Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond
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Biography from The Columbus Museum-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 |
Biography from Boca Raton Museum of Art:
| Robert Beauchamp (American born Colorado 1923-1994)
As a pupil of Hans Hofmann, Robert Beauchamp has absorbed the almost ecstatic regard for the interplay of pigment and brush which was the central method of Hofmann's teaching. Further, he has also absorbed the dictum that painting is much more than such interplay, it is in effect a process of revelation.
It is not unfair to say that for most of Hofmann's many students the emphasis on the simple act of painting, with a total freedom of impulse assigned to pigment, color, and brushwork was enough, but for some few, Robert Beauchamp among them, this freedom provided the license for an emotional and psychological freedom as well.
In Beauchamp's work, which has remained stubbornly individualistic throughout the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, there has always been, in addition to a surging field of color and brushwork, a company of human and animal forms that animate a world of dreamlike, even nightmarish reality. His work is, in effect, a kind of surrealist expressionism.
His awards include the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, The Boskot Foundation Grant, The National Foundation of Arts Grant, The Gutman Foundation Grant and The Fulbright Grant for Painting, Rome.
Information provided by The Boca Raton Museum of Art
Catalina Torres (Intern) |
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