Robert Beauchamp

American (1923-1995)

Robert Beauchamp, a prominent figurative expressionist painter and art educator, born in Denver, Colorado in 1923. He studied with Boardman Robinson at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.  Beauchamp also attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art and later studied under Hans Hofmann, a highly influential teacher of modern art. During his lifetime he had 54 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous invitational group shows including at the Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art (New York) and Carnegie International.

Beauchamp’s awards include grants from the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Boskot Foundation, National Foundation of Arts and Gutman Foundation. In 1959, he was awarded a Fulbright grant to paint in Florence and Rome. Beauchamp was a part of an emerging group of artist-teachers who taught at various schools and universities throughout the United States. He was on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union, Brooklyn College in New York and University of Georgia, and was a visiting artist at the Universities of Louisiana, Ohio, Syracuse, Illinois, Wisconsin, San Diego and Arizona.

Beauchamp’s works are held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Brooklyn Museum, Denver Art Museum, Carnegie Institute and National Gallery of Art, among others.

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