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Biography
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R.B. KITAJ |
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| 1932 |
Born in Cleveland,Ohio, U.S.A |
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| 1950-51 |
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York |
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| 1951-52 |
Academy of Fine Art, Vienna |
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| 1957-59 |
Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University |
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| 1959-61 |
Royal College of Art London |
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| 1976 |
Organised The Human Clay, controversial exhibition of figurative paintings at Hayward Gallery |
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| 1978-79 |
Artist in residence at Dartmouth College, US |
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| Returns to London |
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| 1981-82 |
Lived and worked in Paris for a year |
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| 1982 |
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |
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| 1983 |
Marries Sandra Fisher |
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| 1985 |
Elected to the Royal Academy |
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| 1989 |
Published First Diasporist Manifesto |
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| 1996 |
Commissioned portrait of Mahler for Vienna Opera |
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| 1997 | Moves to Los Angeles | |
| 1999 |
Exhibition at the National
Gallery, London: Kitaj In The Aura of Cézanne And Other Masters |
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| Lectures on Van Gogh at LACMA: My Vincent | ||
| 2001 | Begins to write his Autobiography, Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter | |
| 2004 | Lectures at UCLA and USC | |
| 2007 | Yale University Press publishes Second Diasporist Manifesto. Kitaj dies at his home in Los Angeles a week before his 75th birthday. | |