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Smith, Richard, 1931-2016

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Personal name headingSmith, Richard, 1931-2016
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Variant(s)Smith, Charles Richard, 1931-2016
Associated countryGreat Britain
Birth date1931-10-27
Death date2016-04-15
Place of birthLetchworth (England)
Place of deathPatchogue (N.Y.)
Field of activityPop art Color-field painting
Profession or occupationPainters
Found inHis Paintings, 1958-1966, 1966.
New York times WWW site, viewed Apr. 28, 2016 (in obituary published Apr. 18: Richard Smith; b. Charles Richard Smith, Oct. 27, 1931, Letchworth, Hertfordshire; d. Friday [Apr. 15, 2016], Patchogue, N.Y., aged 84; British painter whose idiosyncratic explorations of form and color embraced both Pop Art and Color Field painting, making him one of the most distinctive, indefinable artists of the 1960s and '70s)