Ronald Brooks Kitaj
American / British
Ronald Brooks Kitaj If Not, Not 1975 - 1976 © R. B. Kitaj Estate
Nationalities American
Birth place Charlton
Death place Los Angeles
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Kitaj settled in Britain in 1957. He had previously studied at art schools in New York and Vienna and, after serving with the army in Germany, came to England on a G.I. Scholarship to study in Oxford and at the Royal College of Art, London. At a time when abstract art was prevalent, Kitaj worked figuratively, developing a personal artistic language derived from pictorial and literary sources. He became associated with the loose grouping of artists called the 'School of London', who were concerned with the human form. Kitaj moved to Los Angeles in 1997.
Ronald Brooks Kitaj (; October 29, 1932 – October 21, 2007) was an American artist with Jewish roots who spent much of his life in England.
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Studied at Cooper Union, New York City, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in the early 1950s. He relocated to London in 1958, where he continued his studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford and the Royal College of London. His first solo exhibition was at Marlborough Fine Art, London, 1963. In 1976 he organized "The Human Clay" at the Hayward Gallery, London, in which he identified a 'School of London:' primarily figurative works by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, and Leon Kossoff. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991. He returned to live in the United States in 1997 and remained there until his death.
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If Not, Not 1975 - 1976
A Life 1975
Truman in the White House 1966
Revolt on the Clyde (Hugh MacDiarmid) 1967
Glue Words 1967
Bacon I 1968
Ctric News Topi 1968
Die Gute Alte Zeit 1969
Actor (Richard) 1979
An art movement of the 1950s to the 1970s that was primarily based in Britain and the United States. Pop artists are so called because of their use of imagery from popular culture. They also introduced techniques and materials from the commercial world, such as screen-printing, to fine art practice.
School of London
A group of London-based figurative painters of the second half of the twentieth century including Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach.