Modern Painters

Location

Country: USA
City: Los Angeles
Place: British Consulate-General

R. B. Kitaj was born in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1950 he studied at the Cooper Union Art Institute, New York, then in 1951, at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He settled in England and studied at the Royal College of Art (1960-62), where David Hockney became a long-lasting friend. Kitaj's first solo exhibition was at the Marlborough Gallery, London in 1963. He became a professor at University of California, Berkeley in 1967¬68 and, in 1993, married American painter, Sandra Fisher, in London. Kitaj was created ARA in 1984 and RA in 1991. A major retrospective of his work was shown at the Tate Gallery in 1994, and subsequently toured in the US. In 1997 Kitaj moved to Los Angeles where he continued to work until his death ten years later.

Places

Subjects

painter, artist (as Subject), book, text-based work

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

R B Kitaj (1932 - 2007)

Title

Modern Painters

Edition

20/70

Date

1971

Medium

Screenprint

Dimensions

height: 51.00 cm, width: 31.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Marlborough Graphics, February 1977

Inscription

below image, br: Kitaj 20/70

GAC number

12915