Talk:Ronnie Landfield

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As the document is not on line, I am going to ask for the exact quote that supports: "Landfield was one of the first painters who led the move away from Minimalism and Hard-edge painting to Lyrical Abstraction" in particular, the claim "one of the first". Incidentally do these catalogs have a personal author or were they issued in the name of the gallery? DGG (talk) 05:16, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Such claims do need to be sourced, but catalogs from 1970 are hard to come by, and virtually nonexistent online. This doesn't strike one as a claim inconsistent with the events cited in the article. As one of the artists in the Aldrich Museum show, Landfield would have been an early practitioner of Lyrical Abstraction painting. Here [1] is an online transcript, from the Smithsonian archives, of a 1972 interview with Larry Aldrich of the Aldrich Museum, in which Landfield is cited several times by Aldrich as one of 32 artists included in the museum's seminal show of Lyrical Abstraction. Aldrich recalls that the exhibition was reviewed by both Time and Newsweek. Apparently Aldrich is credited with coining the 'L.A.' term in this country, in coordination with the exhibition, which continued to the Whitney Museum. The transcripts are lengthy, but cover events in a chronological fashion, and the relevant material is about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way down the page. Over the next week I am going to try to find a copy of the museum catalog. Thanks. JNW (talk) 22:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Another relevant mention online, this time on the opening page of a jstor article, in which Landfield is characterized as one of 'the most notable' of the young lyrical abstraction painters of the late 60s. [2]. JNW (talk) 00:32, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

I now have copies of the brochure from the 1970 Aldrich show, as well as the 2007 Butler, and have added quotes verbatim from the museums' directors, which should be helpful in addressing concerns about his role in abstract painting in the 60s. Some copy edits and clean-up as well. JNW (talk) 03:24, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced info moved from article

Selected permanent collections

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Museum of Modern Art
• The Whitney Museum of American Art
• The Brooklyn Museum
• The National Gallery of Art
• The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• The Norton Simon Museum
• The Art Institute of Chicago
• The Walker Art Center
• The Seattle Art Museum
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
• The High Museum of Art
• The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
• The Des Moines Art Center
• The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
• The Butler Institute of American Art
• New York University
• Hunter College
• The Art Gallery of Ontario
• The Allen Memorial Art Museum
• The Delaware Art Museum
• The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
• The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, and
• The Boca Raton Museum of Art
• The Federal Reserve Board
• Yale University Art Gallery
• The Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich, Germany
• CASA CAVAZZINI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy
• The Mississippi Museum of Art
• The Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
• The Frost Art Museum
• The Smith College Museum of Art
• The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• The New Orleans Museum of Art
• The University of Michigan Museum of Art
• Silverstein Properties, New York, NY
• The University Museum, Southern Illinois University
• The Indianapolis Museum of Art
• The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
• The Portland Museum of Art, Maine
• The Portland Art Museum, Oregon
• The Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
• The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
• The University of New Mexico Art Museum
• The Greenville County Museum of Art
• The Spencer Museum of Art
• The Kemper Art Museum
• The Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
• The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
• The Ringling Museum of Art
• The Robert Hull Fleming Museum
• The Akron Art Museum
• The Palm Springs Desert Museum
• The Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, amongst numerous others.

Awards

• Gold Medal for Painting San Francisco Art Institute 1965,
• William and Noma Copley Grant (Cassandra Foundation) 1969,
• National Endowment of the Arts Grant Clayworks NYC 1983,
• Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 1995,
• Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2001, 2013 (Emergency Grant)
• Artist Fellowship Grant 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2012.
• Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant, 2012
• Joan Mitchell Foundation Emergency Grant, 2012
• New York Foundation for the Arts Emergency Grant, 2012