10 Facts About Ronald Bladen

Ronald Bladen was a Canadian-born American painter and sculptor.

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

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

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

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

Ronald Bladen was awarded the National Medal of Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts.

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

In 1966, Ronald 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.

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

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