The American-born painter R.B. Kitaj’s reputation as an artist rests chiefly on a sequence of perhaps twenty fully realized paintings. Their complex,
Kitaj, Ohio Gang
Ronald B. Kitaj (1932–2007) – Works on Paper
R.B. Kitaj Isaac Babel Riding with Budyonny 1960
R.B. Kitaj "Self-portrait" 2007
L.A. Louver gallery presents R.B. Kitaj. Works by R.B. Kitaj.
R. B. Kitaj ‘Movie Star’, 1993
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In 1985, art historian and critic Marco Livingstone published one of the earliest monographs on American painter R. B. Kitaj. The volume appeared roughly midway through Kitaj’s career (he was born in 1932, and his very earliest works date from the late fifties) and offered significant documentation of a complex artist. Over the next two …
Boys and Girls, R. Kitaj (United States, Ohio, Chagrin Falls, active England and United States, 1932-2007), England and United States, 1964, Prints, Screenprint.
R.B. Kitaj artist page, L.A. Louver gallery
R.B. Kitaj (American, 1932-2007), L.W., 2007. Oil on canvas, 12 x 12 in.
Last fall, a friend handed me a slim, tan volume, the Second Diasporist Manifesto, by painter R.B. Kitaj, freshly published by Yale University Press. Closed, it lies quiet and light on the palm. Crack it open, though, and a slew of numbered propositions slither out: a shouting, delightful, often garbled jumble of quotations and ideas, …
R. B. Kitaj "Notre Dame de Paris", 1986
R/ B. Kitaj, My Mother Dancing, 1992, Oil on canvas
