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Richard Mayhew (1934 - ) Richard Mayhew For more than thirty-five years Mayhew has created distinguished landscapes that are not limited to one section of the country. Even in their most abstract renderings, his paintings are unmistakingly landscapes. They evoke the work of George Inness and, in their fleeting illusionary light, that of Henry Ossawa Tanner. Mayhew's paintings are derived from an intimacy and absorption with nature and our relationship to it, achieving mystery and beauty in combinations of color that are as surprising as they are evocative. His significance lies not only in his artistic achievements but also in the fact that he represents, in some respects, a bridge between the older black artists who developed through the WPA in the 1930's and those who, after World War II, attended art schools and matured during the turbulent Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and the rise of Abstract Expressionism. Education Columbia University, NY Academia Florence, Italy Arts Students League, NY Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY Studied with: Max Beckman, Edwin Dickinson, and Ruben Tam Position Academician of the National Academy of Design, NY Founding Director of the Creative Center for the Arts and Science, CA. Former Member of Spiral -- National Advocate for the Arts Teaching Positions Professor, Emeritus Pennsylvania State University, PA San Jose State, CA Hunter College, NY, NY Smith College, Northampton, MA Art Student League, NY Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Awards and Honors Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Studies Penn State-University. National Academy of Design, Member National Institute of Arts and Letters Award Tiffany Foundation Grant John Hay Whitney Fellowship Ford Foundation Award Solo Exhibitions: Partial Listing Alitash Kebede Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ACA Gallery, NY, NY G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL Midtown Gallery, NY, NY Penn State University, Art Museum, PA Sherry Washington Gallery, Detroit, MI Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA Group Exhibition: Partial Listing Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Midtown Payson Gallery, NY, NY National Academy of Design, NY, NY San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA Studio Museum, Harlem, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Collections: Partial Listing Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN National Museum of Art, Smithsonian, Washington D.C. Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Studio Museum, Harlem, NY Transamerica Corp, San Fransisco, CA United American Health Care Corp., Detroit, MI Whitney Museum of Art, NY Included in Many Private Collections Bibliography, Articles, Reference Books "Midtown Galleries to Exhibit Paintings by Richard Mayhew" Great Neck Tribune, Oct. 25, 1969 "Richard Mayhew" by John Canaday, The New York Times, November 8, 1969 "Mayhew at Midtown" by Dorthey Hall, Park East, November 13, 1969 "Artist Mayhew at Midtown Gallery" by Sharon Bourke, The New York Corrier, November 22, 1969 "Richard Mayhew" by L.C., Artnews, November 1969 "Richard Mayhew" by Saint-Evremond, France-Amerique, Les Courrier des Etats-Unis, Mais 1971 Black Artist in America, catalogue, published by Columbia University, 1972 "Art & the Artist" by Emily Genauer, New York Post, March 9, 1974 "Mayhew Jazzes Up His Paintings" by Jonas Kover, The Daily News (Utica, NY), April 26, 1974 "Richard Mayhew" by B.D., Pictures on Exhibit, April 1974 "The Ax Hits Richard Mayhew" by Benny Andrews, Encore American & WorldWide News, March 8, 1976 "Improvising Nature" by Judith Maloney, Research/Penn State, March, 1992 "7 Black Painters Put Work On View" by Barry Leo Delany, Staten Island Sunday Advance. Richard Mayhew: An American Abstractionist. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem. Begin slide show