R. H. Quaytman Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1961 -

R. H. Quaytman (born 1961) is an American contemporary artist, best known for paintings on wood panels, using abstract and photographic elements in site-specific "Chapters", now numbering thirty-four. Each chapter is guided by architectural, historical and social characteristics of the original site. Since 2008, her work has been collected by a number of modern art museums.[1] She is also an educator and author based in Connecticut.

Early life and education: Rebecca Howe Quaytman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1961. Her mother is the noted American postmodern poet Susan Howe, and her father was abstract painter Harvey Quaytman, well known for geometric works, with over 60 one-person exhibits.[2][3][4] Her parents met while studying painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The family moved to the SoHo neighborhood of New York City in 1963. When Quaytman was 4, her mother began living with and later married David von Schlegell, an abstract artist and sculptor who became the director of graduate studies in sculpture at Yale University.[5] Quaytman credits both her father and step-father with greatly influencing her development as an artist.[6] Quaytman was an Artist in Residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1982,[7] and received a BA from Bard College in 1983.[8][9]

Her half-brother is writer Mark von Schlegell.