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Untitled (River Series: Landscape), watercolour on paper, 1991,
24 x 19 in, 61 x 48.2 cm
Richard Gorman

Born in Ottawa, 1935 - 2010
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

Richard Gorman, an abstract expressionist painter, was influenced by Toronto's
Painter's Eleven and the abstract movement in New York. He studied at the Ontario College of Art under Jock MacDonald and graduated in 1958. Following his graduation, Gorman was represented by Av Isaacs at his Greenwich Gallery (later called Isaacs Gallery) in Toronto.

His peers included Gordon Rayner, Robert Markle, Graham Coughtry, John Meredith, and Dennis Burton. In 1966, with fellow artist John Meredith, he was selected to represent Canada at the Paris Biennial.

Gorman also produced aluminium sculptures, experimented with film and tried printmaking. From 1971 to 1989 he taught painting and drawing at the Ottawa School of Art and the University of Ottawa. In 1986, he produced a mural for the new Ottawa Provincial Court House.

Joan Murray produced a book and travelling exhibition of Gorman's work in 1990. His work has been included in group exhibitions like Dennis Reid's Toronto Painting 1953-1965, organized for the National Gallery in 1972, and more recently in the National Gallery's
Crisis of Abstraction: the 1950s, organized by Denise Leclerc in 1993.
Richard Gorman, an abstract expressionist painter, was influenced by Toronto's Painter's Eleven
and the abstract movement in New York.
La Parete Gallery – Fine Art Gallery - Toronto - Canada
La Parete Gallery is recognized for its selection of Fine Art: Canadian Art - Native Art - Inuit Art - First Nations Art - International Art
Artists: Antonio, Ann Beam, Carl Beam, Molly Lamb Bobak, David Bolduc, Miller Brittain, Christopher Broadhurst,
Israel Broytman, A.J. Casson, Antonio Cardarelli, J. Cardinal-Schubert, Konrad Cramer, Pal Fried, Richard Gorman, Giovanni Guarlotti,
Tom Hodgson, Gershon Iskowitz, Jean-Paul Jérôme, Lee L'Clerc, Maud Lewis, Kenneth Lochhead, Alexandra Luke
René Marcil, Norval Morrisseau, Louis Muhlstock, Louis de Niverville,
William Ogilvie, Frère Jérôme Paradis, William Ronald, Rolph Scarlett, Gerald Scott, Michael J. Seward, Arthur Shilling,
Roland Strasser, Peter Taçon, Harold Town, Jesus Carlos de Vilallonga, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Ruben Zellermayer