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Initially raised in Charlottesville and attending a segregated school, Jefferson Elementary, then Burley High School, in 1958 Reed graduated from Morgan State, an historically Black university in Baltimore. He then went to Yale School of Art, where he was taught by the legendary Josef Albers, completing a BFA (1962) and MFA (1965). While at Yale, R...
For his paintings, prints, drawings, collages, and constructions, Reed used abstract symbols, colours, and textures from remembered symbolic fragments he encountered in his everyday experiences when he was younger. Influenced by other colleagues on the Yale staff like Jon Schueler—a painter of hot atmospheric skies—and visiting tutor Philip Guston,...
Robert Reed participated in many solo and group exhibitions. Solo exhibitions include: San Romano Series, Pilar Corrias, London, UK (2019); Subjective Spaces: Drawings and Collages by Robert Reed, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, US (2019); Robert Reed, The Yale School of Art, New Haven, US (2015); Robert Reed, The...
Awards include: Yale University, William Devane Medalist (2014); National Academy of Design fellow, New York (2009); College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award (2004); Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2001); National Council of Arts Administrators Award (2000); Virginia Center for the Creative...
Robert Reed's work appears in many major private and public collections, including those of the following institutions: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; National Academy Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Yale University Art Gal...
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Oct 14, 2015 · Tea Beer 4:58 am, Oct 14, 2015. Contributing Reporter. A retrospective exhibit of the work of the late professor Robert Reed ’60 ART ’62 opened Monday in the School of Art’s Green Hall Gallery. Curated by School of Art Dean Robert Storr, “Robert Reed: Non-Stop Paintings” incorporates around 30 works that Reed produced during his over ...
born 1938, Charlottesville, VA died 2014, New Haven, CT Robert Reed was the first African-American tenured faculty at Yale’s School of Art, where he taught basic drawing and painting for over four decades. Mentored by Bauhaus legend Josef Albers, Reed earned both a BFA and MFA there before…
Jun 13, 2019 · 13. June 2019. Feature. In 1979 Robert Reed, American painter and adjunct professor of painting at Yale University, visited the National Gallery in London. There he encountered one of three versions of Paolo Uccello’s Renaissance masterpiece of complex perspective, The Battle of San Romano (c. 1438–40).
Robert James Reed Jr. (July 9, 1938 – December 26, 2014) born in Charlottesville, Virginia, was an American artist and professor of painting and printmaking at Yale School of Art for 45 years.
