Richard Tuttle

ABOUT RICHARD TUTTLE

Multimedia, postminimalist artist known for "Red Canvas," "Paper Octagonals," and other small-scale works. He also favored the silkscreen printing process, as evidenced by "Shirts" from 1978 and "Pants" from 1979.

He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1963. He then studied for one semester at Cooper Union, after which he joined the U.S. Air Force for a short time. He was employed by the Betty Parsons Gallery.

He received both the Aachen Art Prize and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 1998.

His parents were residing in Rahway, New Jersey, when he was born, and they raised him in Roselle. He married poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.

He found inspiration in the work of Jackson Pollock .