Painting is like breathing for Raoul Middleman - and probably more important. He remains irrepressibly enthusiastic about his art. He's been painting for nearly half a century now and each new canvas seems as fresh and bright as the first. He clearly loves the sensuousity of brushing oil on canvases.
Middleman explores the whole range of the painter's art: landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, portraits, still lifes, murals and bravura narrative paintings as boisterous as opera bouffe. The binding thread is the sheer joy and pleasure he finds in drawing, paint and color.
--Carl Schoettler
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
American Broadcasting Company, New York
Baltimore Museum of Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Academy Museum of Art, New York
National Gallery of American Art, Washington, DC
New York Public Library
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Towson University, Towson, MD
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
W. C. Bradley Company, Columbus, GA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
