Robert Dash

Robert Dash (1931 - 2013)

Robert Dash is known for his Hamptons paintings.  Dash 's painterly  sensuality is purely American.  It is clear and direct, recording the commonplace.  Never at a loss for subject matter among the fields and hedgerows of the Hamptons, Robert Dash has long been associated with a with a sensual realm over the merely intellectual, favoring the "ultimate reality" of immediate physical experience.

Dash never formally studying painting, he developed a strong interest in the abstract expressionists, particularly De Kooning, at The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, which he attended in part to escape the city.  After college Robert Dash spent a year in Italy and upon returning to New York City worked for Arts and then Art News, while painting at night.  He had his first show in 1960.  Since then, he has painted, written and gardened near Sagg Pond on eastern Long Island, at residence among the changeable celebration of plantings, paths, views and architectural expressions of Madoo, a much-admired garden conservatory of his own making.