Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota and grew up in Valhalla, New York. Although Richard never attended art school, his father, Nathaniel J. Pousette-Dart, was a painter and writer on art.

He moved to Manhattan in 1937. To support himself, he first served as assistant to the sculptor Paul Manship. During the 1940s, he was active in the avant-garde New York art world; he became one of the youngest members of the emerging group of Abstract Expressionists.

In 1951, he moved to Rockland County, New York, where he lived with his wife, the poet Evelyn Gracey, until his death in 1992. His daughter Joanna Pousette-Dart is an abstract painter who regularly exhibits her paintings in important contemporary galleries and museums.

In 2007 she had an exhibition at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens. His son Jon Pousette-Dart is a musician, whose song "County Line" is ranked among the top 50 country-rock singles.

Credit Visual | Richard Pousette-Dart, Symphony No. 1, The Transcendental, oil on canvas, 1941-42, Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Museum Collections: 

North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC)

Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock, AR)

Boca Raton Museum of Art (Boca Raton, FL)

Columbus Museum (Columbus, GA)

Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, DE)

Honolulu Academy of Arts

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, FL)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (Washington University, St. Louis, MO)

Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, MA)

National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)

Newark Museum (Newark, NJ)

Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Oklahoma City, OK)

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (Lincoln, NE)

Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA)

Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City)

Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City)