Richard Mayhew
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Richard Mayhew was born in 1924 in Massapequa, New York. He studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the Art Students League of New York, and Columbia University. Mayhew’s work has been the subject of numerous major solo exhibitions, including recent exhibitions at Venus Over Manhattan, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma; South Etna Montauk Foundation, Montauk; the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington; the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco; and the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah. In 1972, The Store Front Museum—founded by Tom Lloyd, an artist and founding member of The Studio Museum in Harlem—organized a solo exhibition of his work in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1978, The Studio Museum in Harlem mounted a retrospective exhibition of his work “Richard Mayhew: An American Abstractionist,” curated by Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell. Mayhew’s work frequently features in major institutional exhibitions, including recent presentations at the National Academy of Design, New York; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Columbus Museum, Columbus; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; The Broad, Los Angeles; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.His work is held in the permanent collections of over ninety public institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Richard Mayhew retired from the Pennsylvania State University as Professor Emeritus in 1991, having previously taught at numerous institutions including Hunter College, Smith College, the Art Students League of New York, Pratt Institute, and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. He is among the youngest members ever elected to the National Academy of Design, and is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and residencies. Richard Mayhew lived and worked in Soquel, California, until his death in 2024.
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