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Artist
Richard Mayhew
b. 1924, Amityville, New York · Based in Santa Cruz, California
- Columbia University (1956)
- Art Students League of New York
- Brooklyn Museum Art School
- Painting
- Color Field
- Spiritual Landscapes
Richard Mayhew is an African American and Native American (Shinnee-cock/Cherokee) abstract painter and founding member of the Spiral collective. His radiant, chromatic landscape paintings, composed from memory without geographic landmarks, investigate spiritual consciousness and cultural displacement.
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
Richard Mayhew: “What color is love?”
San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
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