Ronnie Landfield

Ronnie Landfield
Garden of Delight, 1971, a/c, 87x72 inches, exhibited: David Whitney Gallery NYC, May 1971, Four Seasons Restaurant, Seagram Building, NYC, 1975-1984, collection:Philip Johnson, (re-acquired by the artist, 1985).
Born	(1947-01-09) January 9, 1947 (age 70) Bronx, New York
Nationality	American
Education	Kansas City Art Institute, San Francisco Art Institute, Art Students League of New York
Known for	Abstract painting
Notable work	Diamond Lake, Portal To Paradise
Movement	Abstract Expressionism, Post-minimalism, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction

Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947) is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction, (related to Postminimalism, Color Field painting, and Abstract expressionism), and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery.

Landfield is best known for his abstract landscape paintings, and has held more than seventy solo exhibitions and more than two hundred group exhibitions. In 2011 he was described by the LewAllen Gallerie as "at the forefront of contemporary art...one of the best painters in America."

Landfield first exhibited in New York in 1962. He continued his study of painting by visiting major museum and gallery exhibitions in New York during the early sixties and by taking painting and drawing classes at the Art Students League of New York and in . He graduated from the High School of Art and Design in June 1963. He briefly attending the Kansas City Art Institute before returning to New York in November 1963. At sixteen Landfield rented his first loft at 6 Bleecker Street near The Bowery (sublet with a friend from the figurative painter Leland Bell), during a period when his abstract expressionist oil paintings took on hard-edged and large painterly shapes. In February 1964, Landfield traveled to Los Angeles; and in March he began living in Berkeley where he began painting Hard-edge abstractions primarily painted with acrylic. He briefly attended the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute before returning to New York in July 1965.