Robert H. Hudson
Robert Hudson | |
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 After Wood, painted steel, 1990, Smithsonian American Art Museum | |
| Born | Robert H. Hudson September 8, 1938 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
| Died | June 14, 2024 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | San Francisco Art Institute |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Movement | Modernist sculpture, Geometric abstraction |
| Spouse(s) | Cornelia Schulz (m. 1962–?; divorced); Mavis Jukes (m. 1977–present) |
| Children | 4 |
Robert H. Hudson (born September 8, 1938 – June 14, 2024)[1] was an American visual artist. He is known for his funk art assemblage of metal sculptures,[2] but he has also worked in painting and printmaking.
Hudson lives and works in Cotati, Sonoma County, California.[2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Robert Hudson was born in 1938 in Salt Lake City, Utah and he grew up in Richland, Washington.[3] At a young age he became interested in making art.[3]
Hudson moved to San Francisco, California, in 1957 to attend College.[3] He received a B.F.A degree in 1961 and an M.F.A. degree in 1963, both from the California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute or SFAI). Hudson was a classmate of William T. Wiley.[4] Hudson studied under Nathan Oliveira, Frank Lobdell, Elmer Bischoff, Jeremy Anderson, Gurdon Woods, and Frank Hamilton.[4]
Career
[edit]Hudson is known for his funk art assemblages, from the late 1950s and 1960s. He has also produced non-objective paintings, ceramics and large steel and bronze sculptures. His first solo exhibition was in 1961 at the Richmond Art Center, while he was still in graduate school.[5]
In 2010, Hudson created a 16-story tall mural made of polychromatic enameled steel panels for One Hawthorne, a condominium building in San Francisco.[6]
Personal life
[edit]He was married in 1962 to artist Cornelia Schulz, whom he met at SFAI. Through his marriage to Schultz, they had two sons, and it eventually ended in divorce.[7][4] His son Case Hudson (born 1968) is a master printmaker and has worked at Crown Point Press, and Gemini G.E.L.[4][8]
Hudson's second marriage was to author Mavis Jukes in 1977, and they have two daughters together.[4] Hudson died on June 14, 2024, at the age of 85.[9]
Public collections
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Several public museum collections hold work by Hudson, they are:
- Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts,
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York,[10]
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois,[11]
- Di Rosa Collection, Napa, California,[12]
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), San Francisco, California,[4]
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,[13]
- Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California,[14]
- Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington,
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.,
- Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii,
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California,
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts,
- Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York,[15]
- Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, California,
- Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California,
- Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California,
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
- Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri,
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California,[15]
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.,[1]
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,[15]
- Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah,
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Robert Hudson". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ a b Chun, Kimberly (2015-12-15). "Robert Hudson continues on funky path in new S.F. exhibit". SFGATE. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ a b c d Raskin, Jonah (2005-11-18). "The Arts / Art meets alchemy in Cotati artist's studio". SFGATE. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ a b c d e f "Robert Hudson". FAMSF Search the Collections. 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
- ^ "Robert Hudson and Charles Frazier". Artforum.com. August 1963. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ Sardar, Zahid (2010-06-06). "Porcelain graphic on steel leaves lasting image". SFGATE. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ Baker, Kenneth (2012-06-22). "Robert Hudson, Cornelia Schulz on shape, intimacy". SFGATE. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
- ^ "Case Hudson, American, born 1968". National Gallery of Art (NGA). Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ Whiting, Sam (2024-07-18). "Bob Hudson, sculptor who worked with found objects and loud paint, dies at 85". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
- ^ "Robert H. Hudson". Albright-Knox. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ "Robert Hudson". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ Rosa, Rene Di (1999). Local Color: The Di Rosa Collection of Contemporary California Art. Chronicle Books. pp. 112–114. ISBN 978-0-8118-2376-0.
- ^ "Artist Info, Robert Hudson". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ "Outrigger". Crocker Art Museum. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ a b c "Legends of The Bay Area: Robert Hudson". MarinMOCA. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
Further reading
[edit]- Beal, Graham W.J., Jan Butterfield & Michael Schwager, Robert Hudson, a Survey, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1985.
- Brooks, Rosetta, Christine Giles & Katherine Plake Hough, Collaborations: William Allan, Robert Hudson, William Wiley, Palm Springs, Calif., Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1998.
- Reynolds, Jock, Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw, New Ceramic Sculpture, Andover, MA, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1998.
- Rose Art Museum, Robert Hudson, Sculpture, William T. Wiley, Painting: Patrons and Friends, Waltham, Mass., Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1991.
- Schjeldahl. Peter, East and West and ROBERT HUDSON, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Moore College of Art Gallery, 1977.
- San Francisco Museum of Art, Robert Hudson / Richard Shaw, Work in Porcelain, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1973.
External links
[edit]- Robert Hudson at Library of Congress, with 3 library catalog records
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- 1938 births
- Painters from California
- San Francisco Art Institute alumni
- 20th-century American painters
- American male painters
- 21st-century American painters
- 21st-century American male artists
- American modern painters
- American contemporary painters
- 20th-century American sculptors
- 20th-century American male artists
- American male sculptors
- Sculptors from California
- 21st-century American ceramists
- Funk art movement artists
- 2024 deaths