Oil painted print

 paper size 44 x 30

 image 35 x 23 1/2

            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 combine the formal qualities of American abstract painters with references to American commercial culture.

1931  Born Letchworth, Hertfordshire, U.K.
1948 – 1950   Attended Luton School of Art Luton, U.K.
1950 – 1952   Served in Royal Air Force Hong Kong
1954 – 1957   Attended Royal College of Art London, England
1959  First Visits New York
1973  Architectural Commission: Mr. Chow Los Angeles, CA
1975  Architectural Commission: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Caracas, Venezuela
1978  Architectural Commission: Hartsfield Int’l Airport Atlanta, GA
1978  Architectural Commission: Mr. Chow New York, NY
1979  Architectural Commission: Mobil Research & Development Dallas, TX
1980  Architectural Commission: IBM Headquarters U.K. North Harbour, U.K.
1981  Architectural Commission: Deerbrook Mall Houston, TX
1985  Architectural Commission: Zales Headquarters Irving, TX
1985  Architectural Commission: Landmark Center II Orlando, FL
1985  Architectural Commission: Montclair Mall San Bernadino, CA
1986  Architectural Commission: Concourse III Atlanta, GA
1986   Architectural Commission: Aquavit Restaurant PrivatBanken, New York, NY
1988  Architectural Commission: Lakeside Baltimore, MD
1988  Architectural Commission: Forest Fair Mall Cincinnati, OH
1989  Architectural Commission: Arts Coucil London, England
1992 Architectural Commission: Rotunda, Standiford Field Airport Louisville, KY
1993  Architectural Commission: The Peak Center Hong Kong

Selected Exhibitions:
2004  Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2003  Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2001  Guernsey College of Art
1992  Pop Art, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Montreal, Canada
1992  Ready, Steady, Go, Painting of the Sixties from the Arts Council Collection, national tour, Foyer Galleries, Royal Festival Hall London, England
1991 – 1992  Pop Art, Traveling Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art London, England
1991  Pop Art, Royal Academy of Art London, England
1987  British Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy of Art London, England
1986  Forty Years of Modern Art, 1945-1985, Tate Gallery London, England
1980  Arco Center for the Visual Arts Los Angeles, CA
1980  Neue Arbeiten, Stadtsmuseum Ulm, Germany
1979  Hedendaagse Kunst Museum Utrecht, Netherlands
1979  Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN
1979  The Museum of Art at Washington State Pullman, WA
1978  The Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA (Traveled)
1978  Hudson River Museum Yonkers, NY
1977  Recent Work 1972-1977 Paintings, Drawings and Graphics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
1976  Museo de Arte Moderno Bogota, Colombia
1975  Paginas Amarillas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Caracas, Venezuela
1975  Retrospective: Seven Exhibitions 1961-1975, Tate Gallery London, England
1975  Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1974  Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz Linz, Austria
1973  La Peinture Anglaise Aujourd’hui, Musée d’Arte Moderne de la Ville Paris, France
1972  Museum of Modern Art Oxford, England
1970  35th Venice Biennale, British Pavillion Venice, Italy
1970  Contemporary British Art, Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Japan
1968  Jewish Museum New York, NY
1968  European Painters Today, Musée des arts decoratifs Paris, France
1967  IX Sao Paulo Bienal Sao Paulo, Brazil
1966  New Shapes of Color, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
1966  XXXIII Venice Biennale Venice, Italy
1966  The Other Tradition, The Institute of Contemporary Art Pittsburgh, PA
1966  XXXIII Venice Biennale Venice, Italy
1966  26th Annual Exhibition, Society for Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
1966  Aspects of British Art, Travelled, Auckland City Art Gallery Auckland, New Zealand
1965  Biennale des Jeunes, Musée d’art moderne Paris, France
1965  London: The New Scene, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN
1965  Pop Art, Nouveau Realisme, etc., Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Belgium
1965  Invitational International Prize Competition, Instituto Torcuato di Tella Buenos Aires, Argentina
1964  Neue Realisten & Pop Art, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany
1964  Englische Kunst der Gegenwart, Städtische Kunstgalerie Bochum, Germany
1963  Dunn International, Tate Gallery London, England
1963  VII Tokyo Biennial, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery Tokyo, Japan
1962 – 1963  British Art Today, Travelled, San Francisco Museum of Art San Francisco, CA
1962  Contemporary Painting, Yale University New Haven, CT
1962  Kompas II, Stedlijk Museum Eindhoven, Netherlands
1962  Institute of Contemporary Arts London, England
1961  The 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, PA
1961  Deuxieme Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Arte Moderne Paris, France
1958  Abstract Impressionism, Arts Council Gallery Carlisle, U.K.
1957  New Trends in British Art, New York Art Foundation Rome, NY