Artist

Robert Gwathmey

born Richmond, VA 1903-died Southampton, NY 1988
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Robert Gwathmey, 1963, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001660
Born
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Died
Southampton, New York, United States
Active in
  • Amagansett, New York, United States
  • New York, New York, United States
Biography

Painter, born in Richmond, Va. Socially conscious, Gwathmey portrayed rural African-American life in the South in a modernist style, emphasizing broad areas of color outlined in black.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)

Works by this artist (3 items)

Olaf Skoogfors, Pin, 1966, gold-plated sterling silver with tourmaline, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of M. Lindsay Kaplan and Norman L. Eisen in memory of Jerome E. Kaplan, 2016.49
Pin
Date1966
gold-plated sterling silver with tourmaline
Not on view
Olaf Skoogfors, Pin/Pendant, 1975, gold-plated sterling silver with ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Helen Williams Drutt and Martin Woldow in memory of Olaf Skoogfors, 1982.93A-B
Pin/​Pendant
Date1975
gold-plated sterling silver with ivory
Not on view
Olaf Skoogfors, Pin/Pendant, ca. 1969, gold plated sterling silver, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Leona S. and Paul D. Rosenstock, 1996.103, © 1978, Judy Skoogfors
Pin/​Pendant
Dateca. 1969
gold plated sterling silver
Not on view