Robert Kulicke
Courtesy of Kevin Rita, Brick Walk Fine Art, Connecticut
Born in Philadelphia in 1924, ROBERT M. KULICKE attended the Tyler School of Art (Temple University) and the Philadelphia Museum School. In 1949, he studied in Paris with Fernand Léger at the Academie Leger, Paris. Davis & Langdale Company exclusively represented the work of Robert M. Kulicke since 1974 and continues to represent the estate of the artist.
Robert M. Kulicke primarily painted still lifes, choosing a jar of olives, a bouquet of flowers and, his signature subject, the pear as his subjects. Intimate in scale, each painting is contained in a frame that was hand-made by Kulicke, based on designs found throughout framing history.
Kulicke is represented by Davis & Langdale Company and has had an annual exhibition there since 1974 . He also had exhibitions at Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University (1978), John F. Warren, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Color of Money: Robert Kulicke’s Dollar Bill Paintings, 1988), Columbia Museums of Art and Science, South Carolina (1983), and Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco (1991, 1994) and others. Since the early 1960s, Robert M. Kulicke has designed frames for both traditional and contemporary use.
Paul Cummings interviewed Kulicke in 1968 for an oral history for the Archives of American Art.
In 1994 Kulicke was featured on CBS News “Sunday Morning” in their segment “Profile of Artist: Robert Kulicke.” The interview was conducted by Anthony Mason in Kulicke’s studio on the West Side of Manhattan. In it, Kulicke discussed his career while demonstrating the process of creating a credible reproduction frame.
In 1988 Kulicke was elected an Associate Member of National Academy of Design.
Kulicke was the Co-Director of the Kulicke-Stark Academy in New York City until 1974, and was an associate of the Jewelry Arts Institute from 1987 until his passing.
Robert M. Kuclike passed away in December of 2007.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Smithsonian, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
For more works by Robert Kulicke click here.
