Roger Ramsay opened his eponymous gallery on Michigan Avenue in 1981. Over the years, Roger Ramsay Gallery featured works in nearly every medium and in motifs ranging from classical to abstract, including the first exhibition of drawings by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl in the United States. Roger featured the work of artists from Chicago, the U.S., Canada, and Europe, from the late 19th century to the 21st century. Chicago-based artists exhibited by Roger include Jeanette Pasin Sloan, Claes Oldenburg, Randy Dudley, and Elizabeth Ockwell among others. Roger Ramsay Gallery closed in 2018.
Richard Sheehan 1953–2006
Richard Sheehan’s paintings have been described as possessing a “painterly realism” and are often compared to the works of Bay Area artists such as Richard Diebenkorn, James Weeks, and Wayne Thiebaud. Sheehan painted en plein air and focused on capturing the specific temporal and geographic impressions of a place. His work depicts abstracted segments of urban sprawl: bridges, tunnels, overpasses and other remnants of industrialization. Instead of creating sweeing panoramic vistas out of these landscapes, he cropped the image, creating tight and dynamic compositions. The paintings are highly architectural in form, isolated, and specific to the American landscape.
Sheehan was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1953, where he lived and worked for most of his life. He received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1975, and his MFA from Yale University in 1977. He has shown widely across the United States. He also taught at Yale University, Harvard University, and Brandeis University. He died in Boston in 2006.
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