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Richard Loving (artist)

Richard Loving
BornJanuary 27, 1924
Vienna, Austria
DiedMarch 27, 2021
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
NationalityAmerican
EducationArt Students League, The New School for Social Research, Bard College
Known forPainting, Drawing, enamel art
AwardsNational Endowment for the Arts
WebsiteRichard Loving
Richard Loving, Water Connections, oil on canvas, 42" x 84", 1982.

Richard Loving (1924–2021) was an American artist and educator, primarily based in Chicago, Illinois.[1][2] He gained recognition in the 1980s as a member of the "Allusive Abstractionists," an informal group of Chicago painters, whose individual forms of organic abstraction embraced evocative imagery and metaphor, counter to the dominant minimalist mode.[3][4][5][6] He is most known for paintings that critics describe as metaphysical and visionary, which move fluidly between abstraction and representation, personalized symbolism taking organic and geometric forms, and chaos and order.[7][2][8] They are often characterized by bright patterns of dotted lines and dashes, enigmatic spatial fields, and an illuminated quality.[7][9][10][3] In 2010, critic James Yood wrote that Loving's work "mull[ed] over the possibilities of pattern and representation, of narrative and allegory" to attain a kind of wisdom, transcendence and acknowledgement of universals, "seeking understanding of self within the poetics of the physical world."[11]

Loving's art has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago,[12][13] Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York,[14] Block Museum of Art,[15] Hyde Park Art Center[8] and Brauer Museum of Art.[11] His work belongs to the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,[16] Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,[17] and Smart Museum of Art, among others.[18][19]

  1. ^ Artner, Alan G. "2 Loving exhibitions double the pleasure," Chicago Tribune, March 28, 2007. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Yood, James. "Richard Loving," in Spirited Visions by Patty Carroll and James Yood, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991, p. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  3. ^ a b Gedo, Mary Mathews. "Abstraction as Metaphor: The Evocative Imagery of William Conger, Richard Loving, Frank Piatek, Miyoko Ito", Arts Magazine, p. 112–117, 1982.
  4. ^ Schulze, Franz. "Richard Loving’s Abstract Imagism," New Art Examiner, April 1981.
  5. ^ Adrian, Dennis. Chicago: Some Other Traditions, Madison, WI: Madison Art Center, 1983.
  6. ^ Pincus, Robert L. Review, Los Angeles Times, July 1984.
  7. ^ a b Moser, Charlotte. "Abstract/Symbol/Image: A Re-vision," Abstract/Symbol/Image, Chicago: Illinois Arts Council Travel Exhibition, 1984.
  8. ^ a b Blake, Kevin. "Inside the Outside: Richard Loving and Eleanor Spiess-Ferris at Hyde Park Art Center," Bad at Sports, February 5, 2014. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  9. ^ Artner, Alan G. "Review: Richard Loving," Chicago Tribune, October 27, 1989. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  10. ^ Schulze, Franz. "Artists the Critics Are Watching," ARTnews, May 1981.
  11. ^ a b Yood, James. Recent Views of an Inner World: Paintings by Richard Loving, Valparaiso, IN: Brauer Museum of Art, 2010.
  12. ^ Art Institute of Chicago. "72nd Annual Exhibition of Artists from Chicago and Vicinity," 1969. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  13. ^ Art Institute of Chicago. "81st Annual Exhibition of Artists from Chicago and Vicinity," 1981, p. 20.
  14. ^ Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Enamels, New York: American Crafts Council, 1959, p. 36. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
  15. ^ Yood, James et al. Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago, 1935-1995, Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art/ Northwestern University, 1996. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
  16. ^ Art Institute of Chicago. Richard Maris Loving, Artists. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  17. ^ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Richard Loving Artists. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  18. ^ Smart Museum of Art. Richard Maris Loving," People. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
  19. ^ State of Illinois, Department of Central Management Services. James R. Thompson Center Permanent Art Collection. Retrieved July 9, 2021.

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