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Ronald Brooks Kitaj RA ( / kiːˈtaɪ /; October 29, 1932 – October 21, 2007) was an American artist [1] who spent much of his life in England. Life He was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States. [2] His Hungarian father, Sigmund Benway, left his mother, Jeanne Brooks, shortly after he was born and they were divorced in 1934. [3]
View all 22 artworks. R. B. Kitaj lived in the XX – XXI cent., a remarkable figure of American Pop Art. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
R.B. Kitaj. Official website of the R.B. Kitaj Estate and R.B. Kitaj Studio Project. Ronald Brooks Kitaj is considered a key figure in European and American contemporary painting.
Oct 21, 2007 · Summary of R.B. Kitaj. The idea that art and intellectualism should harmonize was, and remains indeed, a contentious issue within the artistic community. As an unapologetic intellectualist, and an artist who in his later career published a two volume manifesto, R. B. Kitaj tended to inflame opinions on that debate.
R.B. Kitaj (born Oct. 29, 1932, Chagrin Falls, near Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died Oct. 21, 2007, Los Angeles, Calif.) was an American-born painter noted for his eclectic and original contributions to Pop art.
Artist biography. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Kitaj studied at the Cooper Union Institute in New York in 1950-1 and 1952. As a merchant seaman in the early 1950s he visited Havana, Mexico and South America. He was a student at the Academy of Fine Art, Vienna in 1951.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, R.B. (Ronald Brooks) Kitaj is considered a key figure in European and American contemporary painting. While his work has been considered controversial, he is regarded as a master draughtsman with a commitment to figurative art.
Oct 24, 2007 · R. B. Kitaj, an American artist who became influential in Britain with figurative and Pop Art paintings that ran against the grain of 1960s and ’70s abstraction, died on Sunday at his home in...
Painter, printmaker and draughtsman R. B. (Ronald Brooks) Kitaj was born to a Hungarian father and an American mother (of Russian-Jewish immigrant parentage) in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on 29 October 1932.
R. B. Kitaj. Good God, Where is the King? from The Institute of Contemporary Arts Portfolio. 1964
