Richard Klix is an American artist who was born in 1928 in Montclair, NJ. He studied at Monclair Art Museum School, the School of Industrial Art, Art Student’s League, Cooper Union, and Hunter College, and earned his B.F.A. at Yale University. His influence from New York Abstract Expressionism helped him to develop his own form of expression in the mid-1950s. Klix uses impasto lines squeezed from a rubber bulb syringe to produce color fields. He is best known for his landscape paintings.
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Richard Klix
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
MacDowell Fellowships: 1958, 1960
Studios
Eastman
Richard Klix worked in the Eastman studio.
Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…