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Robert Reed was a Black abstract painter and teacher who continued the modernist Bauhaus approaches to colour. Reed was taught by Abstractionist Josef Albers, but made work in a larger scale infused with an exuberant sense of decoration, embracing a complex style of overlapping geometric forms.
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.
"Robert Reed: San Romano Series" Pilar Corrias Gallery, London April 12 - May 18, 2019
