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The foundation is dedicated to preserving the integrity and enhancing the understanding of Robert Ryman’s work.

As promised, we are pleased to share additional installation shots from the recent Robert Ryman exhibition at David Zwir...
30/08/2025

As promised, we are pleased to share additional installation shots from the recent Robert Ryman exhibition at David Zwirner Hong Kong. And there will be more to come!

“As a practicing artist, Ryman remains the equal, not the all-knowing teacher, of the curious spectator. His extraordinary ability to renew his art depends not upon his outgrowing that naivete but upon heeding its dictates. The near tautological principles he has offered in explanation of his work express that single-minded devotion to 'elementary' pursuits. 'I wanted to paint the paint, you might say', he once told an interviewer. An early formal statement of this aesthetic published is scarcely more complicated, but resolute and sufficient. 'There
is never a question of what to paint, but only how to paint. The how of painting has always been the image.'”

-- Robert Storr, 'Simple Gifts,' from the catalogue of the 1993 Robert Ryman exhibition co-organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Gallery in London.
The exhibition also traveled to the Museo Nacional Centro de Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.



Happy Summer to all.We are pleased to share some beautiful installation shots from the recently closed Robert Ryman exhi...
19/08/2025

Happy Summer to all.
We are pleased to share some beautiful installation shots from the recently closed Robert Ryman exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery in Hong Kong. Here are two today. More to come.

“I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.”
— Robert Ryman

On the left side of the first image:
Robert Ryman
‘Classico 6,’ 1968
Acrylic on six (6) sheets of handmade watermarked Classico paper mounted on foamcore
Sheets, each: 30 x 22 1/2 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Overall: 61 x 69 inches (154.9 x 175.3 cm)

On the right side of the first image:
‘Large-small, thick-thin, light reflecting, light absorbing, 13,’ 2009
Acrylic and enamel on Tyvek with four staples
21 1/8 x 21 1/8 inches (53.7 x 53.7 cm)

The second image shows the two aforementioned works, as well as (in the background on the right):
‘Untitled,’ c. 1963
Oil on stretched sized linen canvas
77 3/4 x 77 1/2 inches (197.5 x 196.8 cm)

https://www.thegreenwichcollection.org

https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2025/robert-ryman



“As I worked and developed the painting, I found that I was eliminating a lot. I would put the color down, then paint ov...
19/08/2025

“As I worked and developed the painting, I found that I was eliminating a lot. I would put the color down, then paint over the color, trying to get down to a few crucial elements. It was like erasing something to put white over it.”

— Robert Ryman in Nancy Grimes, ‘White Magic’, Art News, Summer 1986, p. 89.

Image:
‘Untitled # 17, 1958
oil on stretched cotton canvas
54 3/4 × 55 × 2 1/2 in.; 139.1 × 139.7 × 6.4 cm
The Greenwich Collection, gift of the Artist, 2008

https://www.thegreenwichcollection.org/


The Greenwich Collection is pleased to share information regarding exhibitions featuring Robert Ryman’s work globally du...
27/06/2025

The Greenwich Collection is pleased to share information regarding exhibitions featuring Robert Ryman’s work globally during 2024-2025. As we build our social media presence, more detailed information will be offered over the coming weeks and months regarding these and other exhibitions. We will also be delving into the archives and exploring the historical development of Ryman’s art, and communicating about plans for the future.
Stay tuned!

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“Alchimie de la rencontre, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France. June 23, 2024–January 5, 2025.
(image 1)

“Expanded Horizons: American Art in the ’70s,” Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris. September 21, 2024–February 1, 2025.

“Zeichnung: Idee / Geste / Raum. Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl),” Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr–Universität Bochum, Germany. November 7, 2024–April 27, 2025.
(image 2)

“Radikal Monochrom: Ausgewählte Leihgaben im Dialog mit der Sammlung,” Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland. November 30, 2024–January 5, 2025.
(image 3)

“Ode to Sad Disco,” Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva. December 5, 2024–February 15, 2025.

Collection exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. December 14, 2024–March 30, 2025.
(image 4)

Collection exhibition, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan. February 8–March 31, 2025.

“Aesthetics of Contingency #2: Life is What Happens When You’re Busy Making Other Plans,” Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris. March 16–May 17, 2025.

“Beauty is a Blast: For Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe,” Art Cake, Brooklyn. April 6–27, 2025.
(image 5)

“Endless Sunday: Maurizio Cattelan & The Centre Pompidou Collection,” Centre Pompidou-Metz, France. May 8, 2025–February 2, 2027.
(image 6)

“Robert Ryman,” David Zwirner, Hong Kong, May 28–August 1, 2025.
https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2025/robert-ryman
(image 7)

“Life: A Group Show,” Artists Space, New York. May 29–August 9, 2025.
https://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/arnold-kemp
(image 8)

“Una Collezione Inatessa: La Nuova Arte degli Anni Sessanta e un Omaggio a Robert Rauschenberg,” Gallerie d’Italia, Milan. May 30–September 30, 2025.
(image 9)


Now on view at → A selection of works by Robert Ryman that span the breadth of his practice, from the early 1960s thro...
25/06/2025

Now on view at → A selection of works by Robert Ryman that span the breadth of his practice, from the early 1960s through the 2000s. Plan your visit: https://zwrnr.art/4kYS4MY

Among the works on view is Crazy II, which demonstrates Ryman’s varied painterly vocabularies. Nearby, an early canvas from the 1960s reveals clusters of white brushstrokes breaking across fields of red, green, and taupe—gestural, rhythmic forms that echo the improvisational structure of jazz and signal the artist’s early commitment to experimentation. A rare drawing further expands this inquiry, transforming Ryman’s own signature into a compositional device—repeated, rotated, and examined as pure line. Together, these works distill Ryman’s lifelong pursuit: to strip painting and drawing of narrative and illusion, and to foreground process, presence, and the quiet complexity of material.
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1:Installation views, Robert Ryman, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, 2025
2/3: Robert Ryman, Untitled Study, 1961; Crazy II, c. 1962–1964 (detail)

Currently on view at David Zwirner Hong Kong!
25/06/2025

Currently on view at David Zwirner Hong Kong!

Welcome to the official Meta/Facebook account for The Greenwich Collection, a non-profit organization founded by Robert ...
18/06/2025

Welcome to the official Meta/Facebook account for The Greenwich Collection, a non-profit organization founded by Robert Ryman in 1987.

The foundation is dedicated to preserving the integrity and enhancing the understanding of Robert Ryman’s work.

Robert Ryman (1930–2019) was born in Nashville, Tennessee. After two years in the Army Reserve Corps, Ryman moved to New York in 1952 to pursue a career as a professional jazz musician. The following year, he took a job as a guard at the Museum of Modern Art. His time at the museum in part inspired Ryman to take up painting in 1953.

Ryman’s first solo exhibition was at Paul Bianchini Gallery, New York, in 1967, and his first museum solo exhibition was at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1972. In 1993–94, a retrospective organized by Robert Storr traveled to Tate Gallery, London; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Long-term presentations selected and installed by the artist include those at the Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 1983–2014, and Dia:Beacon, 2003–ongoing.

Other museum presentations include solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1977; Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, 1981–82; Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2000–2001; Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan, 2004; and Dia:Chelsea, New York, and Museo Jumex, Mexico City, 2016–2017.

Ryman’s work can be found in many museum collections, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dia Art Foundation, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Robert Ryman’s Estate is represented by David Zwirner Gallery

‘Untitled [Background Music],’ c. 1962
oil on stretched linen canvas
The Greenwich Collection

Photograph by Bill Jacobson, © The Greenwich Collection

https://www.thegreenwichcollection.org


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