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Richard Dean Tuttle (born
12 July,
1941 in
Rahway, New Jersey) is an American
postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art deals with issues of scale and the classic problems of line.
Tuttle studied at
Trinity College in
Hartford, Connecticut and after moving to New York in 1963 he spent a semester at the
Cooper Union and worked at the
Betty Parsons Gallery. One year after taking a job as an assistant at Betty Parsons, she gave him his first show.
Tuttle's reputation as a master was secure in Europe from early on, though acceptance of his work in his home country was slower. His works on paper are considered seminal works in American art. Tuttle had a survey exhibition in
1975 at the
Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibit was controversial and the show's curator
Marcia Tucker lost her job as a result, after a scathing review by
Hilton Kramer. Kramer, then art critic for
The New York Times wrote, referring to
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's dictum "
less is more", "in Mr. Tuttle's work, less is unmistakably less...One is tempted to say, art is concerned, less has never been as less than this." Tuttle's work, however, is in the collection of the Whitney today.
Tuttle is often referred to as an "artist's artist" and, as such, his work has been influential to a generation of contemporary artists such as
Kiki Smith,
Jim Hodges,
David Hammons,
Michael Oman-Reagan,
Tom Friedman and
Jessica Stockholder. He was a very close friend of minimalist painter
Agnes Martin until her death in 2004.
In
2005, Tuttle had a major retrospective spanning his 40 year career at the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibit traveled to the
Whitney Museum of American Art in November, 2005. He is represented by Sperone Westwater in New York City and by Galerie Schmela in Dusseldorf and by Annemarie Verna Galerie in Zurich . He lives and works in New York City and New Mexico. He is married to the poet
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.
He has been the recipient of many awards for his work including the 74th American Exhibition,
Art Institute of Chicago Biennial Prize, the
Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, New York, and the Aachen Art Prize, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst,
Germany.
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