Richard Pousette-Dart

Richard Pousette-Dart ( born June 8, 1916 in Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA ), † 25 October 1992 in Rockland County, New York) was an American painter and printmaker. He was one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism.

Richard Pousette- Dart is one of the youngest members of the movement of the American Abstract Expressionists. As an artist he was self-taught.

Richard Pousette-Dart grew up in Valhalla, New York. He moved to Manhattan in 1937. To earn his living, he worked as an assistant to the sculptor Paul Manship. In the 1940s, was an active member of the artistic avant-garde in New York City. In 1951, he moved to Rockland County, New York, where he lived with his wife, the poet Evelyn Gracey until his death in 1992 and worked.

The paintings and drawings by Richard Pousette-Dart were (2 in 1959 as the documenta in Kassel) shown at numerous national and international group exhibitions and solo exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1969 to 1970; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1963, 1974 and 1998; the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1986; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997; and the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main, 2001.

Works in museums and collections

• Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
• Brooklyn Museum of Art
• Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
• Indianapolis Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York