Richard hambleton

The New York artist brings his collection, and a few unseen pieces, on a road show and hits London's The Dairy tonight

Artist Richard Hambleton's career took off in the 1980s, but the following decade he was wracked by addiction and destitute. A new documentary tracks his dramatic trajectory.

His spectral silhouettes appeared mysteriously on buildings in Manhattan — “I painted the town black,” he said — but his work also drew notice abroad.

On January 8, 1983, the International Herald Tribune published a short feature detailing the rising passion for street art amongst collectors.

Richard Hambleton is often referred to as the “Godfather of street art,” although this is a title that the artist rejected. Best known under the guise of Shadowman, he painted series of…

Last fall I got the unique opportunity (via the Wall Street Journal) to visit the studio of the reclusive, iconic artist, Richard Hambleton. I will not try to explain his work or his place in the art world, but rather my experience photographing a man who probably had not had a portrait made since 1980s (at least from my research). The reason I was there was because he was having a 40 year retrospective in collaboration with Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, Andy Valmorbida, and Giorgio Armani…

The market of Richard Hambleton, a prolific street artist who battled with heroin addiction, has grown enormously in the last year and a half.

New Art International: Richard Hambleton, On being and being art (Vintage, 1988)