Robert Beauchamp

Robert Beauchamp (1923 – 22 March 1995

He was told he was good at drawing, and replaced study hall classes with art classes, receiving instruction and inspiration from a Welsh teacher named R. Idris Thomas. While in high school Beauchamp would go, every Monday, to the public library and a local museum where he would read books about art; specifically French painting, as assigned by Thomas. Beauchamp would spend upwards of four hours a day in the art room and eventually won the Carter Memorial Prize, which provided a scholarship to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. At Colorado Springs he studied under Boardman Robinson, painting landscapes in nature. Eventually he felt that abstract expressionism became dull and stalemated.

Paintings and drawings

Beauchamp described his drawings as painterly, seeking the spontaneity in an image. He would develop a drawing then a painting, and vice versa. His heavily impastoed paintings, often described as sculptures themselves, came from the pouring of paint from a can, with little planning and constant evolution in the medium upon the canvas. He preferred little planning to his creations, believing that an artists work would become stale and repetitive with constant planning.

Notable exhibitions Felix Landau Gallery Guggenheim Museum Louisiana State University University of South Florida Utah Museum of Fine Arts Walker Art Center Whitney Museum of American Art

Notable collections Denver Art Museum Hirshhorn Museum Museum of Modern Art University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Texas