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Drawing, Painting, Color, Design
 Since 1969 Ronnie Landfield has had sixty solo exhibitions of his abstract paintings, including twenty-four in New York City. He recently had a retrospective exhibition exlploring five decades of his paintings at the Butler Institute of American Art.
His paintings have been included in group exhibitions worldwide, including in Beijing, Manila, Havana, Paris, Cologne, Munich, Gubbio and Udine, Italy and Sapporo. His work has been seen in three Whitney Museum Biennals and hundreds of group shows, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, the Andre Emmerich Gallery and the Leo Castelli gallery.
His paintings are represented in public and private collections throughout the
world including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, the National Gallery, the Seattle Museum of Art, the Norton Simon Museum, the Walker Art
Center, the Bavarian State Museum in Munich, the Federal Reserve Board, the U.S. State
Department, Charles Schwab, Mobil, GE,ARCO, Prudential Insurance, Chase Manhattan,
New York University and Stanford University.
Mr. Landfield explains his beginnings: "Perhaps it all changed for me when I was 15 one Sunday morning in early August in 1962. I was sitting by the pool where I was the lifeguard and the word spread that Marilyn Monroe died the night before. I packed my art supplies and my bathing suit, quit my job in the hotel in Woodridge, New York and enrolled at the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York. By sundown Monday I was studying with Arnold Blanch and working nights at the Caf" Espresso on Tinker Street.That summer I met Allan Kaprow, Eva Hesse, Gahan Wilson, Herman Cherry, and many other exciting young artists."
Mr. Landfield taught Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts from 1975 to 1989
and at Bennington College as a guest instructor in 1968. In 1969, he was awarded a
William and Norma Copley Foundation (Cassandra) Grant for Painting. In 1995, and
again in 2001, he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting. Mr.
Landfield has taught at the Art Students League since 1994.
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