Robert Mattison

Robert Mattison is an American academic, art historian, curator, and author who is the Marshall R. Metzger Emeritus professor of art history at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.[1] He is known for his authorship on abstract expressionism, especially the painters Robert Motherwell[2] and Franz Kline.[3]

Biography

Mattison earned his BA in art history from Middlebury College in Midddlebury, Vermont and his MA from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he studied with George Heard Hamilton and Julius Held. He received MFA and PhD from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, where he studied with Sam Hunter. Mattison's doctoral dissertation at Princeton became his first book "Robert Motherwell: The Formative Years" (UMI Research Press 1987).[4][5]

His second book was "Grace Hartigan: A Painter’s World" ([Hudson Hills Press 1990).[6] In 1995, he authored "Masterworks in the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection : Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelly, and Frank Stella.[7] In 2004, this book was followed by "Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries" published by Yale University Press.[8] In 2010, Mattison published "Arshile Gorky: Works and Writings" (Ediciones Poligrapha). Subsequently, Mattison wrote the monograph "Ronald Bladen: Sculpture (Abbeville Press, 2019).

Most recently Mattison directed and authored the online Catalogue Raisonne "Franz Kline Paintings: 1950-1962" for the Hauser & Wirth Institute.[9] Previous to this, in 2012-13, Mattison curated the exhibition and wrote the catalog for "Franz Kline: Coal and Steel" at the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Baruch College, New York City.[10].[11]

Overall, Mattison has curated fifty exhibitions. He has written 120 articles and exhibition catalogs which, in addition to studies of Hartigan, Kline, Motherwell, and Rauschenberg, explore aspects of the works of artists including: Stephen Antonakos, William Baziotes, Audrey Flack, Helen Frankenthaler, Richard Pousette-Dart, Theodore Stamos, and Frank Stella.

References

  1. ^ Block, Dave (February 9, 2019). "Prof. Bob Mattison Traces Work of Artist Franz Kline". News.
  2. ^ "Robert Motherwell 1979-1980: Recollections and Ideas". The Dedalus Foundation.
  3. ^ Hay, Bryan (February 8, 2023). "Prof. Robert S. Mattison finalizes online catalog of artist Franz Kline". News.
  4. ^ "Robert S. Mattison". SFMOMA.
  5. ^ Mattison, Robert Saltonstall (June 13, 1987). Robert Motherwell: The Formative Years. UMI Research Press. ISBN 978-0-8357-1810-3 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Mattison, Robert Saltonstall (June 13, 1990). Grace Hartigan: A Painter's World. Hudson Hills Press. ISBN 978-1-55595-041-5 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Item Details | Research Catalog | NYPL". Item Details | Research Catalog | NYPL.
  8. ^ "Robert Rauschenberg".
  9. ^ "Franz Kline Paintings, 1950–1962". Hauser & Wirth Institute.
  10. ^ Creative, James Nicnick, Kudu. "Franz Kline: Coal and Steel".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "Item Details | Research Catalog | NYPL".
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