Robert Stanley (painter)
Robert "Bob" Stanley (born January 3, 1932 in Yonkers , New York , † November 15, 1997 in New York City , USA ) was an American graphic artist and painter and an important representative of Pop Art in the USA, above all known for its prints .
life and work
Robert Stanley studied at the Art Students League of New York , then at the Brooklyn Museum Art School . His first solo exhibition took place in 1965 at the Bianchini Gallery in New York.
His work is part of the collections of important museums, including the Museum of Modern Art , the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan ; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Fort Worth , Texas , the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC , the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main. ( Smile , 1966, acrylic on canvas, inv. No. 2006/261).
Robert Stanley participated in the 4th documenta in Kassel in 1968 with six of his prints .
Exhibitions
- 2015: Ludwig Goes Pop , Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation; MUMOK, Vienna
- 2012: Living With Pop! , Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Leipzig
- 2011: never again trouble-free! , Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
- 2010: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States , Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
- 2008: Good Vibrations - Le arti visive e il Rock , Complesso Museale di Santa Maria della Scala, Siena
- 1999: Melancholy and Eros In Contemporary Art , Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst
- 1978: Another Aspect of Pop Art , MoMA PS1, New York, NY
- 1977: Bob Stanley and Bart Wasserman: Exhibition of New Work , MoMA PS1, New York, NY
- 1976: Prints by artists from the USA after 1945 , Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel
- 1973: Whitney Biennial 1973 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- 1968: documenta 4 - Documenta, Kassel; The Obsessive Image 1960–1968 , Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968
- Harald Kimpel , Karin Stengel: documenta IV 1968 international exhibition - A photographic reconstruction (series of publications from the documenta archive); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Inventory of the MMK, Frankfurt am Main
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stanley, Robert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stanley, Bob (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and printmaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Yonkers , New York |
DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1997 |
Place of death | New York City |