Richard Wengenroth (1928-2022)
Bridge study with yellow, 1965
inkwash and paint on paper
24 x 16″
framed
$3800

Richard Wengenroth (1928-2022)
Connecticut coastline, circa 1965
ink and paint
17 x 23″
$1800

Richard Wengenroth (1928-2022)
untitled gothic abstraction, 1957
23 x 16″
inkwash and paint with original frame
signed RW 1957
prov. Berns family, San Francisco
$1800

Richard Wengenroth (1928-2022)
Calligraphic II, 1951
oil on board
18 x 24″
pictured in monograph : Richard Wengenroth, The View at 90  pg. 16
$4800

Richard Wengenroth (1928-2022)
City Movement Study, 1964
inkwash on paper
24 x 8″
$2000

Richard Wengenroth (1928-2022) Untitled #3 , 24 x 20″ ink on paper, elegantly framed dated 6-10-1960 signed R. Wengenroth 1960 l/l Columbus Art League Sculpture and Drawing Exhibition label affixed verso

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Richard Wengenroth (1928-2022) was a Brooklyn born artist who painted and exhibited for over fifty years. His work was shown in solo and group exhibitions in the Unites States, France and Germany and his work is represented in over 200 public and private collections.

In his late teens and early twenties Wengenroth hitchhiked the United States coast-to-coast and traveled to Japan, Mexico, France, Italy, Germany, England, and the Benelux countries. He earned degrees from Wittenberg University Cum Laude and Ohio Wesleyan University. He was awarded a Fulbright Grant to Germany and attended the Akademie der Bildende Künste, München where he was close to members of Der Zen Gruppe and was instrumental in arranging that group’s first American exhibition. He was nominated for the NEA single artist grant for the State of Ohio and received the Great Lakes Colleges Grant and the Fulbright Grant.

In his academic career he taught drawing, painting and art history, did organizational work and program development as a teaching fellow at Ohio Wesleyan University and was a visiting professor at the University of Kentucky and City University of New York. He was both a professor and Chairman Emeritus at CUNY.

In the 1960s he was Founding Director of a residential arts apprenticeship program, GLCA, which brought midwest college arts students to working apprenticeships with New York City artists.

Exhibitions (selected)
SOLO
Looking at Lincoln, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
University of Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, Ma
Bernard Baruch College, CUNY, New York (The Lincoln Portraits)
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa
Sussex County Community College, Newton, NJ
Hotel de Ville, Municipalité Riez, France
Pace Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Ben Shahn Gallery – Wayne N.J.
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio