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Ronald Bladen was born on 13 July, 1918 in Vancouver, Canada, is a Canadian-American painter and sculptor (1918-1988). Discover Ronald Bladen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 13 July, 1918
Birthday 13 July
Birthplace Vancouver, Canada
Date of death 3 February, 1988
Died Place New York City, US
Nationality Canada

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1918

Ronald Bladen (July 13, 1918 – February 3, 1988) was a Canadian-born American painter and sculptor.

He is particularly known for his large-scale sculptures.

His artistic stance, was influenced by European Constructivism, American Hard-Edge Painting, and sculptors such as Isamu Noguchi and David Smith.

Bladen in turn had stimulating effect on a circle of younger artists including Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and others, who repeatedly referred to him as one of the 'father figures' of Minimal Art.

Charles Ronald Wells Bladen was born on July 13, 1918, to Muriel Beatrice Tylecote and Kenneth Bladen, both British immigrants living in Vancouver, Canada.

1922

In 1922 the family moved to the Washington state before returning to Canada to live in Victoria, British Columbia in 1932.

The artist displayed his love of art at a young age.

At ten years old Bladen began drawing intensively, making copies of works by Titian, Picasso and Matisse.

1937

In 1937 the artist enrolled in the Vancouver School of Art where he studied until 1939.

1939

In 1939 the artist moved to San Francisco, where he enrolled in the California School of Fine Arts.

1941

In 1941, when drafted and subsequently declared unfit for service, the artist was obliged to work as a ship's welder at the navy dockyards.

Using the skills he learned in this capacity the artist supported him for years as a toolmaker.

1946

In 1946 Bladen traveled to Tijuana, Mexico, New Orleans and New York on a grant from the San Francisco Art Association.

1948

In 1948 he was married to the actress Barbara Gross.

1955

They separated in 1955.

During this time he also befriended the writers Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller and Allen Ginsberg.

1956

In 1956, Bladen moved to New York, where he lived on Houston Street.

1957

Through Al Held he met George Sugarman and Nicholas Krushenick and John Krushenick, who together founded the Brata Gallery co-operative in 1957.

The artist's paintings from this period mark a departure from his earlier romantic works.

They are defined by highly concentrated segments of color set against monochromatic backgrounds.

1960

In 1960, he took over Al Held's studio at 5 West 21st Street, where he began to focus on making collages of folded paper and large scale plywood relief paintings.

1962

In 1962, he exhibited his plywood paintings for the first time at the Brata Gallery and the Green Gallery in New York.

The following year he made his first free-standing, colored sculptures from plywood boards with metal struts.

From this time on the artist dedicated himself exclusively to sculpture.

1964

In 1964, he showed his first sculpture, White Z, at an exhibition in the Park Place Gallery in New York where he befriended Connie Reyes, who later became his companion.

He was awarded the National Medal of Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts.

1965

In 1965, Bladen participated in the critically acclaimed Concrete Expressionism show curated by critic Irving Sandler at New York University, which also featured the work of sculptors George Sugarman and David Weinrib and painters Al Held and Knox Martin.

1966

In 1966, Bladen showed a tripartite work made the previous year, Three Elements, at the exhibition, Primary Structures Younger American and British Artists, in the Jewish Museum in New York.

A seminal moment in the history of sculpture, this exhibition brought the language of minimal sculpture into the public eye.

Artists represented in the exhibition include Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Walter De Maria Robert Morris and others.

1967

In 1967 he was included in the Scale as Content exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, which brought together important sculptures by Bladen, Barnett Newman and Tony Smith, he showed his monumental sculpture, The X.

Starting in 1967 he received a number of important public commissions, was represented in 1968 at documenta 4 in Kassel, and was among the circle of artists presented to a European art public under the title, Minimal Art, West Berlin.

Starting in 1967 Ronald Bladen received a number of important public commissions including: The Cathedral Evening for the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, New York, 1969, Vroom Sh-Sh-Sh for Buffalo, New York, 1974, Raiko I for Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf, 1975, Cosmic Seed for Des Moines (Iowa), 1977, Kama Sutra for Central Park, New York, New York, 1978, Oracle’s Vision for Springfield, Ohio in 1981, Black Lightning for Seattle and the King Faisal University in Riyadh, Host of the Ellipse for Baltimore, Maryland, in 1981, and Sonar Tide for Peoria, Illinois, in 1983.

1970

In 1970, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

1974

From 1974 to 1976, Bladen taught as a guest lecturer at Columbia University in New York and was awarded the Mark Rothko Fellowship in 1975.

1976

In 1976, Bladen was appointed teacher at the Parsons The New School for Design, a post he held until 1978 and he also taught at the School of Visual Arts.

1977

In 1977, he was once again awarded the National Endowment of the Arts.

1981

He was an Artist in Residence in 1981/1982 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine), and in 1982–1983 as a guest lecturer at Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut).