R. B. Kitaj
(born 1932)

Ronald Brooks Kitaj, who helped transform the London pop-art scene of the 1960s, is an American. His later work is more complex, multi-layered, and challenging and has been described as paradoxically allegorical and depictive, traditional and thoroughly modernist. A major and controversial retrospective of his work was held at London’s Tate Gallery in 1994. After the death of his wife in 1997, Kitaj returned to the United States after many years abroad. He now resides in Los Angeles. His work is held by countless institutions and private collections, inlcuding the Thyssen-Bornemiza Collection, Madrid; the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Saatchi Collection, British Library, Tate Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy, and National Gallery, London; The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the National Gallery, Oslo; the National Gallery, Berlin; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Baltimore Art Museums, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, etc.