Artist

Bigelow, Robert

Title

#1

Date

2014

Dimensions

17.8cm height x 17.8cm width

Type

painting

Accession Number

2016.24.1

Collection

Permanent Collection

Gift of the artist

Born in 1940 in Los Angeles, California, Canadian artist and printmaker Robert Bigelow graduated in 1967 with a BFA (Major in Painting) from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Bigelow taught painting, drawing and lithography in Western Canada from 1967-1971 at Simon Fraser University, Capilano College and the Vancouver School of Art (Emily Carr University) in Vancouver, BC. Working as a printmaker from 1971-1978 for prestigious American print houses such as Gemini G.E.L, Tyler Graphics, Cirrus Editions, Petersburg Press and the Tamarind Lithography Workshop,he collaborated on print editions with artists such as Josef Albers, Jim Dine, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Man Ray and Frank Stella. Robert Bigelow worked closely with Robert Motherwell on his paintings, collages and prints during a position as Motherwell’s Connecticut studio manager from 1975-1978. Returning to Canada in 1978, Bigelow worked until 1995 as Associate Professor and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University in Montreal. Robert Bigelow’s works have been collected by the Portland Art Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Pasadena Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, Museum of Modem Art, National Gallery of Canada, amongst others. Robert Bigelow lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.