Robert De Niro, Sr.
Summer Landscapes
September 10 – October 25, 2008
Press Release
"In the hands of a sophisticated visual thinker like De Niro, of course, all of the above conspire to create remarkable paintings of the landscape, the kind that inspire awe and envy among painters and the most delicious consternation among viewers…. They are lessons in succinctness and inimitable exercises in visual wit." - Peter Frank
New York, New York – Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of paintings by Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922-1993). Robert De Niro, Sr.: Summer Landscapes opens to the public with a reception on Wednesday, September 10th, from 6-8 pm. A fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Peter Frank will accompany the exhibition (catalogue available by request or online at www.ameringer-yohe.com).
Robert De Niro, Sr.: Summer Landscapes focuses on the artist’s landscape painting. De Niro first turned to landscape while living in Paris and the Pyrenees in the early 1960s. He returned to the genre during summers he spent working in Provincetown and the Hamptons in the late 1960s, and once more a decade later during the two years he lived in San Francisco. De Niro applied Abstract Expressionist technique to representational subject matter and effortlessly blended postwar American styles with a sensibility indebted to Continental (especially French) models.
Robert De Niro, Sr., was born in Syracuse, New York, on January 17, 1922. He studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown and New York and briefly with Josef Albers at Black Mountain College. In 1941, he married a fellow Hofmann student, Virginia Admiral. Their son, Robert De Niro, Jr., was born the following year. During his lifetime, De Niro’s work was shown
extensively at prominent New York galleries and included in the Whitney Annual, Stable Annual, and New York School Second Generation exhibition at The Jewish Museum. His work may be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., among others. In August 2008, a one-person exhibition of his painting opened at the Fundación Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa in Bilbao, Spain.