![Hamilton, Ralph. (1946 - 2006) [Bidart, Frank. (b. 1939)] "Frank Bidart's Chair" (1974)- Original Drawing](http://www.schubertiademusic.com/cdn/shop/files/HamiltonFrankBidart_sChairDrawing24892.jpg?v=1762024504)
Original drawing, ink on paper. Signed "Hamilton 1974" lower right. Toned, else fine. 8 x 10 inches; 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
From the collection of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016.
Hamilton's paintings are in the collections of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Addison Gallery, the Rose Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and he received major awards from the Pollack-Krasner and Ingram Merrill Foundations. "He was an avid reader, especially of Roman history, and poetry. (John Donne was a distant ancestor.) ... Six of his Fourteen People, a series of life-size standing figures, are poets (among them Robert Pinsky, Frank Bidart, Gail Mazur, Joyce Peseroff, and Margo Lockwood). He did the covers for poetry books (including my own three), the Elizabeth Bishop bibliography, and a number of issues of Ploughshares. His eloquent portrait of Ella Fitzgerald was on the cover of Parnassus."(Lloyd Schwartz, The Boston Phoenix, 2006)
Original drawing, ink on paper. Signed "Hamilton 1974" lower right. Toned, else fine. 8 x 10 inches; 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
From the collection of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016.
Hamilton's paintings are in the collections of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Addison Gallery, the Rose Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and he received major awards from the Pollack-Krasner and Ingram Merrill Foundations. "He was an avid reader, especially of Roman history, and poetry. (John Donne was a distant ancestor.) ... Six of his Fourteen People, a series of life-size standing figures, are poets (among them Robert Pinsky, Frank Bidart, Gail Mazur, Joyce Peseroff, and Margo Lockwood). He did the covers for poetry books (including my own three), the Elizabeth Bishop bibliography, and a number of issues of Ploughshares. His eloquent portrait of Ella Fitzgerald was on the cover of Parnassus."(Lloyd Schwartz, The Boston Phoenix, 2006)