Robert Dash (1934-2013)
“Dash ‘s painterly sensuality is purely American. It is clear and direct, recording the commonplace. Never at a loss for subject matter among the fields and hedgerows of the Hamptons, Robert Dash has long been associated with a sensual realm over the merely intellectual, favoring the “ultimate reality” of immediate physical experience.”
— Paul Cummings, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
September 22, 1974
Robert Dash, Field Flower, ca. 1980 Edition 4/6, pochoir, 29 x 23 inches
Robert Dash was an American painter, writer, and gardener born in New York in 1931; he died in 2013. He studied at the University of New Mexico and lived and worked for many years in Sagaponack, New York, where he established Madoo, his house and garden, in 1967. His paintings are closely associated with landscape, place, and the changing visual character of the East End of Long Island. Madoo describes him as particularly recognized in the 1970s for his depictions of a Sagaponack landscape that has largely disappeared.
Dash’s work has been exhibited at institutions and galleries including the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; Allentown Art Museum; Modern Art Museum, Munich; C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore; and Fischbach Gallery, New York. His work is included in collections including the Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Parrish Art Museum.