Robert Ryman

born 1930

Robert Ryman, ‘Ledger’ 1982
Ledger 1982
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In the Studio: Painting with White

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Robert Ryman (May 30, 1930 – February 8, 2019) was an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He was best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. He lived and worked in New York City.

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  • Yves Klein, ‘IKB 79’ 1959

    Art Term

    Monochrome

    Monochrome means one colour, so in relation to art, a monochrome artwork is one that includes only one colour
  • Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Portrait of Lawrence Alloway 1965

    Tate Papers

    Tate Papers no.16: Autumn 2011

    British-born Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990) was a leading member of the Independent Group in the 1950s before moving in 1961 to ...
  • Photograph taken by Alexander Liberman of a gathering at his home c.1965

    Tate Papers

    Art World, Network and Other Alloway Keywords

    Courtney J. Martin

    The British critic Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990) generated a new vocabulary for American art of the 1960s and 1970s. This paper ...
  • Sir Stanley Spencer, ‘Self-Portrait’ 1959

    Tate Etc

    MicroTate 15

    Ewan Gibbs , Esther Stocker , Rachel Kneebone and Gavin Pretor-Pinney

    Individual reflections on a work in the Tate collection
  • Photograph of Robert Rauschenberg seated on Untitled (Elemental Sculpture) with White Painting (seven panel) behind him at the basement of Stable Gallery, New York 1953

    Tate Etc

    A genteel iconoclasm: Robert Rauschenberg

    Vincent Katz

    Robert Rauschenberg was fascinated by Willem de Kooning, and in 1953 asked the artist if he could erase one of ...
  • Robert Ryman, ‘Guild’ 1982

    Interview

    Moving pictures

    Sheena Wagstaff

    Robert Ryman was a young artist in New York when he met Barnett Newman. He discusses the late artist’s aesthetic ...

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