About the artist:

Born on July 24, 1937 in Bay City, Michigan, he was the son of Walter and Corinne (Falk) Kleemann. He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1961 with a B.F.A. from the School of Architecture and Design, where he received his training in sculpture and painting. Just out of college, he moved to New York City to work and live as an artist. In 1972, he became a resident of Columbia County, NY, living in Stockport for 35 years and then moving to Valatie in 2007. Once in New York City, his original medium was sculpture but he soon became more interested in painting. After a few years of pounding the pavements looking for a gallery to represent him, his work was accepted to show by a few galleries. He finally became well-known as a photorealist artist in the early '70s after being represented by the Louis K. Meisel gallery in SoHo. He has remained with Meisel, who coined the name Photorealism, ever since. His work is owned by major museums, such as the Guggenheim and MOMA in New York, and modern collectors, and regularly appears in both solo and group shows all over the world. He is studied by students and artists, and a full overview of his life and work is available online in the Smithsonian Institute's Archives of American Art, which includes an extensive interview and his personal and work-related papers. Ronald Allen Kleemann, 76, died on May 30, 2014 at the Timberlyn Heights Nursing Home in Great Barrington, MA of complications from dementia. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1971 - French & Co., New York, NY 1974 - French & Co., New York, NY 1974 - Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1976 - Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1976 - Reed College, Portland, OR 1977 - Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN 1979 - Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1983 - Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1985 - "Realism: Ron Kleemann," Bay City Council on the Arts, MI, June 1992 - Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1993 - "New York Air," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1997 - “30 Years of Icons,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, February 2004-05 - “The NASCAR Paintings,” Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York, NY, December 4 – January 14 2005 - Ron Kleemann – "The Nascar Paintings," The Butler Institute Of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, May 8 – Aug 28 2008 - Ron Kleemann - Patrice Trigano Gallery, . Paris, France, April 16 - May 17, 2008 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Rider College, Trenton, NJ San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL The Butler Institute Of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY The Virlane Foundation and the K&B Corporation Collections, New Orleans, LA University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA Utrecht Museum, The Netherlands Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Hofstra Museum of Art, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA SUNY Plattsburgh Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY Dwight Frederick Boyden Art Gallery, St. Mary's College, St. Mary's City, MD South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI James Madison University, School of Art and Art History, Harrisonburg, VA Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY Queensborough Community College, Queens, NY SUNY New Paltz, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, NY The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ