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Raoul Middleman
Born: 1935
Education:
1959-61 Pennsylvania Establishment of Slim Arts, Congested Scholarship
1961 Borough Museum Sharp School, Congested Scholarship
1960 Skowhegan Summer Secondary, Full Scholarship
1955 Johns Histrion University, B.A.
Solo Exhibitions:
2013 Mae West Decide, C.Grimaldis Verandah, Baltimore, Md
2012 City Limits, American Lincoln Katzen Room, Washington DC
2011 The 100 Association, NYC
2011 Baltimore Babes, Kouros Veranda, NYC
2010 Portrayal Paintings, Histrion Community College, Maryland
2010 Scraps of Fissure , Consort Georges Grouping College, Maryland
2009 Kouros Heading, New Royalty, NY
2009 C.Grimaldis Gallery, Metropolis, Md
2008 Ternary Gallery, Easton, MD
2008 Roger LaPelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Kouros Veranda, New Dynasty, NY
2007 Bang to Plein Air, C. Grimaldis Verandah, Baltimore, MD
2005 Kouros Heading, New Dynasty, NY
2005 C. Grimaldis Veranda, Baltimore, MD
2005 Roger LaPelle Galleries, Phildelphia, PA
2004 Kouros Gallery, Original York, NY
2003 C. Grimaldis Gallery, Port, MD
2002 Colony Art Piling, Baltimore, MD
Troika Heading, Easton, MD
2001 C. Grimaldis Gallery, Port, MD
Horse Drawings, C. Grimaldis Galle
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Down the Stretch
Raoul Middleman steps into the University of Maryland University College’s art gallery, starts chatting up curator Brian Young, and, looking around, stops talking mid-sentence. Seeing UMUC’s retrospective of his work, Raoul Middleman’s Romantic Expressionism: Honoring 55 Years of Artistic Excellence, for the very first time renders him speechless, though just momentarily. Middleman’s eyebrows rise over the frames of his glasses, and his eyes twinkle as he takes in the scope of the show, which features 80 of his best pieces and remains up until the end of August.
His surprise quickly gives way to recognition. “Look, it’s Al!” he exclaims, taking leave of Young and sounding as if he just spotted a dear friend, which he has. But the room is otherwise empty; friend Al Engelman is framed, larger than life on the wall. “That’s the first portrait I ever did of him,” adds Middleman, a warm smile spreading across his face.
He then spots more friends, Uncle Sid—”my favorite uncle, the first one to buy my paintings;” Bow Davis, a former colleague at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where Middleman has taught since 1961; renowned painter Grace Hartigan, another MICA friend; his wife, R
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Raoul Middleman
Biography & Resume
Raoul Middleman was born in Baltimore in 1935. He has a BA in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, and has attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Skowhegan, and The Brooklyn Museum Art School. He has been teaching Painting and Drawing at The Maryland Institute College of Art since 1961. His murals of the different aspects of horseracing, done with his class at The Maryland Institute, are on permanent display at The Pimlico Racetrack in Baltimore. He was President of the National Academy of Design from 1998 to 2001. He has shown his work at The Allan Stone Gallery, The Ice Gallery, MB Modern, and The Kouros Gallery in New York; The Roger Lapelle Gallery in Philadelphia; The Troika Gallery on the Eastern shore; and The C.Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore.
He has painted landscapes in oils, watercolors and pastels in France, in Brittany and the Ardeche; Germany, in Murnau with its impressive view of the Alps; Italy, with the classical light flowing over the hills of Tuscany and Umbria; the raw fractured shifting skies of Scotland; the canyonlands of southern Utah; the seacoast of Buzzardʼs Bay; and the embankments along the shores of the Susquehanna. The Katzen Gallery of American University has recently featured his paintings o