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Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin
Born in : Long Beach - 1928
Robert Irwin studied in Los Angeles at the Otis Art Institute (1948-50), the Jepson Art Institute (1951), and the Chinouard School of Art (1952-54). Since his first solo exhibition, at the Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, in 1957, he has exhibited widely in galleries and museums in North America and abroad. He currently lives and works in San Diego.

Biography   
Irwin received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984. In 1993, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, initiated a major retrospective of his work, which subsequently traveled to Paris, Madrid, and Cologne. Among his numerous public projects, the most recent is the monumental garden he designed for the Getty Center in Los Angeles, which opened in 1997.
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Artist
Jardin central
Parks and gardens
Robert Irwin
(1997)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Artist
Band in Boston
Painting
Robert Irwin
(1962)

The Museum of Modern Art of San Francisco
Artist
Sans titre
Painting
Robert Irwin
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