Overview

I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what's usually in the center of a painting is very important? It's like the main course isn't there and you're having to deal with everything around what would normally be the main course.

Derived from the idea of geometry and asymmetry in shape and form, Robert Mangold's works challenge the limits of the two-dimensional medium.

Biography

I am attracted to generic or 'industrial' colors; paper bag brown, file cabinet gray, industrial green, that kind of thing.

Born 1937 in North Tonawanda, New York, Robert Mangold attended the Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio, and obtained both his BFA and MFA at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. Mangold is known for his contribution to minimalism, combining the classic elements of composition—shape, line, and color—to create abstract works of architectural scale, drawing by hand thick and thin graphite lines on subtly modulated planes of color. His shaped panel paintings use subtle modulations of color and precise graphite lines to confront the viewer with a difficult, yet meditative experience. “Robert Mangold’s paintings,” wrote...
Works
  • RM 2005 Double Line Column Study
    Robert Mangold
    Double Line Column Study, 2005
    pastel and pencil on paper
    76.83 x 56.5 cm
    30 3/16 x 22 3/16 in
  • Robert Mangold, Column Painting 8A (Dark Red Study), 2003
    Robert Mangold
    Column Painting 8A (Dark Red Study), 2003
    acrylic and pencil on canvas
    228.6 x 57.5 cm
    90 x 22 5/8 in.
  • RM 1996 Brown:Gray Zone Study-2
    Robert Mangold
    Brown / Gray Zone Drawing, 1996
    acrylic graphite and black pencil on paper
    76.8 x 167.6 cm
    30 3/16 x 65 15/16 in
    Framing Dimensions: 85 x 178 x 5.5 cm
  • MangoldNo.3
    Robert Mangold
    Brown/Gray Zone Painting V, 1996
    acrylic and black pencil on canvas
    228.6 x 503.6 cm
    90 x 198 4/16 in
    Brown/gray zone painting crate :
    -1/2 184x224x12,5 cm
    -2/2 184x224x17,5 cm
  • Robert Mangold, Plane/Figure I, 1992
    Robert Mangold
    Plane/Figure I, 1992
    graphite on paper
    105.4 x 148.6 cm
    41 1/2 x 58 1/2 in
  • Robert Mangold, Orange frame, blue ellipse (diptych), 1988
    Robert Mangold
    Orange frame, blue ellipse (diptych), 1988
    acrylic and graphite on canvas
    203.2 x 266.7 cm
    80 x 105 in
  • Robert Mangold, Red Ellipse/Red Frame, 1987
    Robert Mangold
    Red Ellipse/Red Frame, 1987
    acrylic and graphite on canvas
    241 x 335 cm
    94 14/16 x 131 14/16 in
  • Robert Mangold, Untitled #6 (green), 1986
    Robert Mangold
    Untitled #6 (green), 1986
    Acrylic and graphite on paper signed titled and dated “R Mangold 1986 # 6” on the reverse
    76 x 56 cm
    29 14/16 x 22 1/16 in
  • Robert Mangold, Untitled (yellow-orange), 1986
    Robert Mangold
    Untitled (yellow-orange), 1986
    Acrylic and graphite on paper signed and dated “R Mangold 1986” lower left
    76 x 56 cm
    29 14/16 x 22 1/16 in
  • RM 1979 Painting For Three Walls
    Robert Mangold
    Painting for Three Walls #3 (brown - final version), 1979
    acrylic graphite on paper
    100 x 137.5 cm
    39 5/16 x 54 2/16 in
    Framing Dimensions: 108 x 148 x 4 cm
  • Robert Mangold, A Triangle within two Rectangles N° 4 (on 2 sheets) (bleu), 1977
    Robert Mangold
    A Triangle within two Rectangles N° 4 (on 2 sheets) (bleu), 1977
    acrylic and crayon on paper
    99 x 170.5 cm
    38 15/16 x 67 2/16 in
  • RM 1976 Two Squares within a Square and Two Triangles
    Robert Mangold
    Two Squares within a Square and Two Triangles, 1976
    colored pencil on paper
    69.9 x 100.3 cm
    27 8/16 x 39 7/16 in
    Framing Dimensions: 8 x 11 x 4 cm
  • RM 1974 Four Triangles Within a Square
    Robert Mangold
    Four Triangles Within a Square, 1974
    acrylic and wax crayon on canvas
    182.8 x 182.8 cm
    71 15/16 x 71 15/16 in
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